Victoria White releases The Upside
Soulful singer-songwriter Victoria White releases her debut album ‘The Upside’, which was produced by famed longtime ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’ guitarist Sheldon Reynolds, and signed to legendary EWF Founder Maurice White’s Kalimba Music label.

With the smooth jazz and urban radio success of her sensual and exotic, easy grooving debut single “Can't Buy Love”, Victoria White keeps on adding to the list of cool all-star jazz and R&B company that she keeps. The first artist signed to legendary Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White's Kalimba label, the jazz and R&B influenced singer/songwriter was already vibing with him, longtime EWF guitarist Sheldon Reynolds —who produced her critically acclaimed debut The Upside —and smooth jazz keyboard star Brian Culbertson, who played on the track “Keep On Going.”

The singer’s poetic, easy grooving first single “Can’t Buy Love” is rapidly climbing the smooth jazz charts, sharing space with artists like Brian Hughes, Chris Standring and Steve Oliver and saxman Jimmy Sommers. Most of the songs on The Upside were recorded in a unique, cross-country way, with White sending Reynolds the guitar and vocal tracks she recorded at home, and Reynolds adding the bass, drums, percussion and other instrumentation that takes her brilliant melodies and lyrics to the next creative level. White composed every song on the album by herself with the exception of the ambient, acoustic guitar driven “Forgiven” which she co-wrote with Reynolds, and has a distinctive vibe that brings to mind the exquisite, jazzy soul simplicity of Grammy Award winning singer Corinne Bailey Rae.

Growing up in New Jersey, Victoria White began her musical life listening to jazz artists like Sarah Vaughn and Miles Davis. Eventually her interest grew to embrace a wide array of styles and genres to form her own eclectic sonic blend. Fortunately now for fans of jazz, rock, folk and R&B, it was all of these influences that began the rudimentary bedroom recordings of the songs she began writing as a teenager. Years before she began working with famed R&B guitarist Sheldon Reynolds, White was recording her voice on one tape recorder, her guitar on another and mixing them to create coolly primitive tracks of her earliest material.

‘The Upside’ is a soulful journey of heartfelt music – it’s smooth, it’s cool, and you won’t want to stop listening to this jazzy lady.

To hear Victoria White’s songs ‘Can’t Buy Love’ and ‘Forgiven’, and to listen to her interview from an excerpt of ‘Champagne Sundays’ Online Radio Show that aired on May 4, 2008, please double click on the Play Button below.