Mishal Moore

Passaic, NJ

Biography

*Chosen to perform at Musikfest 2010. *Recently featured on Youtube for 'New Music Tuesday' (Feb 2010) *Featured in the 'We Are The World 25 for Haiti' Youtube addition as seen on CNN Saturday Morning and ABC News with Diane Sawyers Mishal Moore:"The Natural" Singer/songwriter Mishal Moore discovered her true sound and ideal audience without the star-making machinery of commercial television, radio, or big corporations to guide her. Not that she didn't experiment with mainstream trends! A classically trained vocalist and musician with a strong background in musical theater, Moore began pursuing a recording career after mastering live performance skills that would've been the envy of many established pop and soul stars. But the first producers she encountered weren't sure how best to use this experience. Perhaps knowing that her innate talent would make even cookie-cutter material sound above the ordinary, each individual producer of her first two independent albums encouraged Moore to mimic existing R&B trends rather than emphasize those aspects of her personal style that make her so charismatically different. That's why the wider public got their first look at a more stylistically distinctive Mishal through the Youtube page she created in 2006. Uploading delightfully quirky D.I.Y. videos which combined comedy, musical performance, intimate autobiography, and experimental editing effects, she soon constructed a Mishal Moore "channel," where subscribers were being entertained by much more than an amateur video diary. A mere ten videos in, Moore came to the attention of Youtube programming czars who asked permission to "feature" one of her videos on the site. Beginning on July 22, 2007, Moore's acoustic performance of "When I Loved You" was spotlighted on the Youtube homepage for ten days. "My video got close to a million hits," Moore recalled. " I didn't know the internet was capable of doing that! It was the moment it got set in stone for me that I need to continue doing this because I'm reaching a mass of people that I could never reach by myself on foot." Last summer (09) Ill Friction, founded by the talented and well respected, DJ Kenny "Dope", released Mishal's debut single, "Oh Lord". Which quickly became a favorite to DJ's and people around the world. With radio play all over Europe, "Oh Lord" was quickly placed on The Best of 2009 compilation CD's. "Because of all of the remixes, I opened myself up to an audience that I never would have reached. Dance music listeners have shown me so much love and placed me at #1 for two months on traxsource.com...I'm so excited for my musical future and can't wait for ALL to hear the album this year." So if this is your first taste of Mishal Moore, get ready for a very pleasant surprise. If you are already familiar with her iconoclastic brand of 21st Century pop, go back to her Youtube channel and click through some of her most recent uploads. If only the winners of American Idol could have controlled their media image so well! Then consider that this is an artist who counts Jiminy Cricket as a mentor and listens to Judy Garland and T.I. on the same Ipod. Mishal Moore wants and intends to astonish her listeners, only not with a pyrotechnic bang, but with a soulful whisper that reminds her listeners not to let racial stereotypes limit what they enjoy, think or do. Here we have a songwriter who believes there is power in singing about the simple things of life and that we should appreciate human history, but not let our obsession with history blind us to our magical present or our potentially marvelous future.

Songs (6)

The Way I Do

Oh Lord (Kay Dee Version)

The River

Bleed Out

The River

Fixah My Soul

Videos (2)

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