Biography:

Gifted with unusual musical abilities (including perfect pitch), Kiskadee learned piano and started singing at the age of two. By five, she was playing pan and singing in the family’s Steel Band - The Rainbow Steel Band. Whilst on tour throughout the UK and all over Europe, the Band performed at a number of prestigious venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Glyndebourne Opera House and the Commonwealth Institute in London. Even then, it was not unusual for Kiskadee to inspire such headlines in the press as “Young Singer Reveals Amazing Versatility!”
 

After gaining an Honours Degree in French and English and then working for the BBC for several years, Kiskadee entered the music industry full time as a Singer / Songwriter, Pan Player, Producer and Arranger. As a result, she soon found herself in great demand performing at a numer of major venues and events including the Millennium Dome (to a capacity crowd of 30,000), Wimbledon Centre Court, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, the BBC, and for Heads of State.
 

Kiskadee's international Television and Radio appearances include Channel 4's 'Big Brother Live Reunion Party', ITV's Trisha Show, The Weakest Link, Central TV, Jamaica TV, Trinidad TV, BBC Radio 4 and 7, Choice FM, LBC Radio, Puerto Rico Radio and Dominican Republic Radio.

In 2005, Kiskadee recorded backing vocals for Michael Jackson and was part of his production team for the project.

In the same year Kiskadee featured alongside KC Porter in a tour of the Caribbean. Together with a 65 piece choir and live band, they travelled from the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Trinidad, Jamaica and Miami. Her songs "Gimme One World" and "Say Say" went down a storm throughout the tour, where she also launched her debut solo album 'Don't Look Back', which she co-produced with John Barnes and UK producer Andy Whitmore. The song 'Here Forever' from the album was one of the 5 finalists in the American Song Of The Year competition.

Kiskadee has also written and produced tracks for other artists, which you can hear on her music page. L.A. Producer John Barnes, who has arranged and produced for Michael Jackson for decades writes: "I experience Kiskadee as one of the most inspiring human beings I have ever met. I have worked with many great talents during the course of my career, but Kiskadee's incredible collection of talent combined with positive professionalism place her in a class of her own."

News:

We have just launched two exciting companies called "Ethical Music" and the other called "Minor2Major". Kiskadee

www.minor2major.co.uk

www.ethicalmusic.com

Minor2Major.co.uk is all about personalised musical greetings and songs. They can be sent to people’s mobile phones, ipods, PCs etc. Our first product is a really cool soulful Caribbean Happy Birthday song written by Kiskadee. It is the funnest and classiest Happy Birthday song around.  It is available in over 100 generic versions such as Happy Birthday Mum…, Honey, Sister, Sexy Lady….) It is also available as a custom named song.  We currently offer over 2000 different names and are always expanding.  

The happy birthday songs, once selected, are available in 4 formats: CDs, MP3 downloads, e-cards and mobile phone messages (ringtones).  For every product bought at minor2major.co.uk  at least 50% goes to the artists. In the case of ecards, $1.00 from each ecard goes directly to the artist who created the image. One such artist is a young blind boy who lives in China. He made a Terracotta tile with his inner vision of what flowers, grass and sunshine look like. Did I mention that he has never had any sight? 

Sister Company Ethical Music is our other “baby”.  We bring together talented artists from around the globe who the world would otherwise overlook. Musicians, songwriters, singers, poets, calligraphers, photographers, sculptors… all feel passionate about their art and see it as their calling in life. There are incredible artists in this world who get overlooked simply because they either don’t have the right look, don’t speak or sing in the right language, have a disability, are too old, who’s art doesn’t fit the marketing criteria of the industry etc… If they are genuinely talented, they deserve to earn a decent living with their art. This is what we are about. In short

We are not a charity. As wonderful as charity is, we believe giving people a chance to earn an honest living is more important to the artists, their dignity and all of us who enjoy their art. That’s Ethical Music. Well, we hope you stay with us on this journey!

Visit http://minor2major.co.uk/blog/ to keep up to date with our progress.