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Happy Thanksgiving

I’m grateful for the beautiful day outside and for every new day I’m able to wake up and move closer to my goals.  I’m grateful for the successes I’ve had this year and the successes I have to come.  I’m…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

For those that don’t know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  If you are in your 30’s and are at risk, please get yourself checked.  If you’re in your 40’s, please start getting checked. My friend Shelley is a 2x…

Photo of Janifer, courtesy of Brian R. Nett

You Should Never Judge a Book By it’s Cover

Last night I went to two live band karaoke nights.  One at Rock & Rose hosted by Brandon Bain with Crash Course Karaoke.  As promised, since Alan Bigelow, musical director for the band became my 600th fan, and since they…

Photo of Janifer, courtesy of Brian R. Nett

Happy 600 Day

Today marks the day where I celebrate hitting 600 “Likes” on my facebook fan page!  Thank you to all of you for making this happen!  I definitely couldn’t have done it without your help.  To celebrate, on Thursday, I’m going…

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A message shared.

Jessie J, I know exactly what you mean.

Quiet Before the Storm

It’s October 22nd, and I’m officially suspending the 2-2-2 project.  Due to some unforeseen situations with the single, that project needs to be completed first before the 2-2-2 project is set into motion.  I might end up pushing it to…

“One More Time” debut single

REVISION: start time for my track will be at 10:30PM ET tonight!  Head to http://globalmixxradio.com/ then to check out the rough edit! The finished song will be available on sale on iTunes in a few weeks! ——————————————- Back some time…

Perceptions

Now that season I of Karaoke Battle USA is finally in the books (please forgive me West Coast folks, since you are in mid viewing as I write – I don’t anticipate any spoilers in my post), the one enormous…

Shuffle Up & Deal!

Tomorrow I’ll be dealing Texas Holdem for the first annual Julia’s Angels JDRF Charity Poker Tourney to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Stop by and play for a chance at the grand prize: a $10,000 seat at…

What a fortuitous evening!

I go with my instinct and head to 14th street to do some karaoke after the gym tonight and who do I find myself surrounded by? Bravo TV staff and members of the web design firm of Landor Associates who…

Karaoke World Championships – Episode 5 (with judges commentary)

So you’ve seen the footage, but Upward Rising Development finally edited the NY State finals and added the judges commentary too.  Here’s the multi-camera version of my performance, with added judges commentary.  And yeah, this time, you actually can see…

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On the calendar for this week: UPDATE

Just thought you’d like a little look behind the curtain, just so you understand the kind of work that’s involved behind the scenes for an indie artist in the industry.  This is a glimpse of my calendar for this week. …

…in remeberance

In remembrance of all those who died ten years ago today, and for my friend, Monica Lyons, who was in Tower 2 that day and did not survive on 9/11, I’m leaving this moment of silence…

Favorite Tweet Convo from Last Night

@RealJoeLevy where you at man? You better be singing tonight!   Never. (Maybe. For you.) @Janifer     I’ll be @PulseKaraoke after the show. U down?     I’m feeling charitable today. The singers are particularly bad tonight. Stay away….

Photo of Janifer, courtesy of Brian R. Nett

2 Singles, 2 Videos, 2 Weeks – The Challenge

So I’m throwing out the gauntlet. 2 singles, 2 videos, 2 weeks. Explanation: Can an indie artist, not associated with a label (outside of the one they’ve created), produce 2 singles and 2 music videos for those 2 songs within…