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Terri Walker Biography

At last year's Mobo awards, the name of one red-hot R&B singer was on everyone's lips, the name we're talking about here is Terri Walker, not another glittering star from stateside but from up the road in North London and very firmly announcing her arrival with her scintillating debut album, Untitled. Terri was up there with four nominations - the same number, in fact, as her American contemporaries.

Terri was Britain's best-kept secret. Everyone in the business quite rightly raved about this blistering new talent - there was her album again, nominated for the Mercury Music prize - but somehow the general public hadn't appraised themselves of one of the best singers to emerge in a decade.

Now all that is about to change. Terri has collaborated with the talents of the great Danes Soulpower and hip-hop/R&B producers Copenhaniacs to produce a follow-up that is destined to propel her full-throttle, full-of-emotion voice into the consciousness of the public as well as the critics. This time, we'll know exactly who Terri Walker is.

"A lot of people didn't really know where to put me," says Terri now. The trouble was, her first album was so mature, no one could quite believe it could have come from a singer so young. "I was 23 but everybody thought I was about 90 the way they were going on!" Terri exclaims.

So with the debut album Untitled and its litany of plaudits in the bank, she set off for Denmark to talk ideas with her putative producers (determined to get back on the next plane if they didn't get on) and found in the Copenhaniacs a team who are "naturally soulheads". This hippest of production outfits have worked with Jamelia, So Solid's Asher D, and remixed Nelly (featuring Justin Timberlake) and Mariah Carey, so they were the ideal choice to fuse the nu-soul, pop and R&B elements of Terri's music into a super-cool but accessible soul concoction that takes no prisoners.

The result is a new album L-O-V-E that is bursting at the seams with exhilarating vocals and gargantuan grooves. Put together tracks like the mighty Hurt By Love with its clash of rock guitars and powerhouse beats, the lilting R&B title track L-O-V-E and the storming first single Whoopsie Daisy, co-written by Terri and this year's Ivor Novello winners Remee and Cupfather & Joe (responsible for Jamelia's Superstar), and you have an album to infect the airwaves as well as the clubs.

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Related links:

1. Terri Walker - 'Whoopsie Daisy'
2. Terri Walker WebSite