Marcus Miller's first CD for PRA, "The Sun Don't Lie", was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Jazz category. Sales are approximately 300,000 worldwide. Marcus' second CD entitled "Tales", released in May 1995, features Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Lalah Hathaway, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett and Hiram Bullock, and was nominated for three 1996 Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Instrumental Arrangement.
Detroit pop/rock group and winner of the 1993 Motor City Music Awards for Best Alternative Group. "Flirt" was released on PRA Records in 1993; their second album, "Pervert", was released on PRA Records in late 1995, and was picked up by Polygram/Mercury for Major distribution.
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Kevin Gilbert was the former singer/songwriter of Toy Matinee, a critically acclaimed Warner Bros. Records group. Kevin was a major force in the Tuesday Night Music Club and co-wrote two hit singles for newcomer Sheryl Crow which earned him a 1995 Grammy nomination in the Song Of The Year category for co-writing "All I Wanna Do." His debut solo album "Thud" was released on March 21, 1995.
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Tim Pierce is an acclaimed rock/pop studio guitarist who has performed on over 250 records by artists that include Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Crowded House, Terence Trent D'Arby, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, just to name a few. Tim's first solo record, "Guitarland", hit retail on February 21, 1995. It features Dweezil Zappa and Tears For Fears drummer Brian Macleod.
An Irish pop rock band, the Big Geraniums have developed a successful touring audience in Europe. Their first album in Ireland had 3 top ten singles and their video -- "Home Again" -- was featured on MTV in Europe for countless weeks. Their first international release, "girls on sheep", produced by Phil Tennant (The Waterboys) and mixed by Julian Mendelsohn (Paul McCartney), was released in mid-1995.
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See the catalog for PRA release information on the above artists. Also available: PRA's CD Sampler, "Now Hear This." The sampler includes 2 tracks from each of the above artists.