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Week 4: ROZET

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 ROZET Name: Katrina Rose Tandy From : Miami, FL Genre: Pop/Rap Artist Influences : Childish Gambino, Tyler the Creator Firefly Performance Day:  Friday Monthly Spotify Listeners:  86,124 Top 2 Songs (Only 2 on Spotify): Phantom City  Rigamarole  Not much to go off of, but Rigamarole is definitely worth a listen. (The music video is also pretty sweet).  3 Fire Facts: Rigmarole, a word which represents nonsensical, meaningless commotion and procedures often used to confuse people, is the basis of her hit song.  Her song, (actually titled "Rigamarole" not Rigmarole) is meant to be representative of her dissatisfaction with the abuse of African Americans under the U.S. justice system. "I say 'no more rigamarole' because I was tired of feeling stuck in this repetitive loop of injustice and misinformation.  I wanted to be heard and with the current state of society I know much of the world feels the exact same."  This fall, Rozet is touring with ...

Week 3: Ritt Momney

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 Ritt Momney Name:  Jack Rutter From : Salt Lake City, UT Genre: Indie/Pop/Electronic Artist Influences : King Gizzard, James Blake, Strfkr, Feist  Firefly Performance Day:  Sunday Monthly Spotify Listeners:  7,178,474 Top 3 Songs: Put Your Records On Something, in General  Young Adult (Also check out 2 vastly underrated songs "(If) The Book Doesn't Sell," and "Paper News.")  3 Fire Facts: Ritt Momney started as a band with Rutter and 3 of his high school friends.  After his friends left the band to go on mission trips for the Mormon church, and his then-girlfriend went away to college, Rutter stayed back to pursue a solo career under the name. He released his first album in 2020, "Her and All of My Friends," in which he struggles with loss, loneliness, and his abandonment of Mormonism. "I was fully considering going on a mission, just so I didn’t have to tell anybody I didn’t believe in it."  Rutter's stage name is a spoonerism of the U....