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GINNY BLACKMORE<\/b><\/h1>\nGINNY BLACKMORE<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n
INFLUENCES:<\/b> Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill<\/p>\n
ALBUM:<\/b> Due out late fall<\/p>\n
WEBSITE:<\/b> ginnyblackmore.com<\/p>\n
New Zealand native Ginny Blackmore remembers precisely the moment she decided to be an entertainer: She was 9 and sitting in a movie theater captivated by Lauryn Hill’s performance in Sister Act 2<\/i>. Blackmore was raised in a religious family and had little knowledge of secular music. \u201cIt was the first time I heard\u00a0hip-hop, R&B and soul,” she says. I came out of the theater and said,\u00a0\u2018That\u2019s what I want to do.\u2019 I chose music that day.\u201d Blackmore threw herself into music, and eventually dropped out of high school to pursue her dream. \u201cMy parents allowed me to leave school provided I treated songwriting like a job,\u201d Blackmore says. \u201cI had to work from 9 to 5, five days a week. If there wasn\u2019t music coming out of the room for longer than half hour, my dad would knock on the door.\u201d\u00a0At 19, Blackmore moved to London and within months signed\u00a0a publishing deal with Sony\/ATV. She planned to write songs for other artists while pursuing a solo career\u2014and Christina Aguilera wound up recording one of her songs, “Sing for Me,” for her 2012 album, Lotus<\/i>. Despite her success, Blackmore was unfulfilled. \u201cI wanted to sing my own songs so badly,\u201d she says, \u201cthat I found it really hard to write for others.\u201d\u00a0Veteran music manager Mark Sudack arranged meetings with a couple of L.A. music execs, which eventually led to the release of her own Top 20 hit \u201cBones.\u201d Blackmore is now working with British producer Step (Adam Lambert) and is preparing to release her debut album later this year. \u201cThe music is as honest as I could make it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt’s my perspective on life. I really hope people can hear themselves in it somewhere. That’s what I care about. It’s an album for humans.”<\/p>\n
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