
The Bahamas has never seen an indigenous recording artist experience the level of international success able to help put the country on the map the way Bob Marley did for Jamaica. Although recording artists like T Connection, The Beginning of the End, Johnny Kemp and Bahamen in the past have had some world-wide exposure and achievement, the Bahamas has yet to release a widely internationally acclaimed career recording artist…TaDa plans to be the first.
TaDa is no stranger to being the first when it comes to music achievements. In 2008, TaDa wrote and recorded the Bahamas tourism ads with Fred Ferguson, headlined the Miss Teen USA pageant and performed at the Kanye West foundation in Los Angeles. She was the music consultant and had songs appear in Mari Govan’s feature film ‘Rain’ and is currently working as the music supervisor on an upcoming feature by Kareem Mortimer.
She is the first Bahamian female recording artist to appear on MTV's TEMPO and is also the only Bahamian Grand Prize category winner of the renowned John Lennon Songwriting contest.
TaDa excels not only in the field of recording arts, but also as a songwriter and producer. She has won 4 Caribbean Gospel music Marlin Awards, and currently has the monopoly on commercial jingle production in Nassau, with clients including, but not limited to, British Fidelity, Subway Restaurants, Solomon's Mines, Scotiabank (Bahamas) Ltd. Her music airs on every radio station in the Bahamas, and her music videos air nationally throughout Canada and the Caribbean.
In 2000, at the age of 19, TaDa founded Sanctigroove Productions as the publishing company to facilitate her recording and songwriting career. TaDa has since then self-released 3 solo projects, and 2 compilation releases (which featured both Bahamian and Canadian talent). By 2001 she had earned a number of scholarships substantial enough to be able to afford her an education abroad in the music business field. This rising star then went on to earn music video grants, sponsorships and put on her owns concerts while in Toronto, Canada.
Upon returning to the Bahamas in late 2003, TaDa began producing commercial jingles for businesses, and had been and continues to be the leading provider of jingle productions in Nassau. Under the genres of Urban, R & B, Reggae, Caribbean and Hip Hop, this talented native of Nassau, Bahamas has opened for a number of well-known artists including Bow Wow, Carl Thomas, and BeBe Winans. She has won international music awards, including the Grand Prize in the 2000 John Lennon Songwriting contest (Hip-hop category) and has held the record as the most nominated recording artist at both the 2000 and 2004 Caribbean Music Marlin Awards. TaDa has also appeared on the 2002 "Honey Drops" compilation CD released in by Universal Music Canada/Phem Phat Productions and her music videos air on TEMPO and Much Music television.
TaDa has both the experience and background to be highly successful in the international music market. She is an honors graduate of The Harris Institute for the Arts Recording Arts Management program, and gained invaluable experience and behind-the-scenes
know-how while interning in the Artist & Repertoire department at Clive Davis' J Records in Manhattan, New York.
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