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<font color="#efdece" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial Black">Street
Troubadour</font></div>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial Black" size="2">Born
Deandrias Abdullah on the south side of Chicago, this singer/songwriter
and producer is ready to bring his organic, street funk to the
world. Andreus came by his musical gifts naturally. His mother
was a singer who traveled to Chicago from Mississippi to pursue
her career in music, and met his father, a local sax player, shortly
upon her arrival. Andreus came up singing and playing piano, guitar,
and drums in the church, and performing regularly at local talent
shows and parties.<br>
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Now a polished musician and performer, Andreus credits the music
and culture of Hip Hop for his development as a songwriter and
producer. "I'm a die hard fan of Hip Hop. In the beginning
I would make beats on guitar and bass, and then borrow someone's
drum machine and complete the tracks. Rapping for so long taught
me how to formulate songs with vivid images, and that helped with
my songwriting". Andreus is a storyteller who takes his listeners
on a journey down the gritty back streets of life and conjures
images of love, pain, and freedom. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder,
Jimi Hendrix, Sting, Santana, Elvis Costello, Roy Ayers, Run DMC,
and Rakim, have all provided inspiration, and Andreus incorporates
these diverse influences to produce funky, Latin flavored, soul
music for the new millennium.<br>
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Andreus refers to two of his biggest influences, Curtis Mayfield
and Bob Marley, as his "musical father figures". Like
those legends, Andreus wants to create music that moves the spirit,
provokes the mind and endures. "It's not that I want to sing
or sound like either of them. It's kind of like I'm taking the
torch and keeping it moving. That's why a lot of the songs I write
are about real experiences. Street stuff. The real gritty stuff
that you don't necessarily hear or see all the time in music."
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And like Curtis and Bob, Andreus sees spirituality as a way to
reach the masses. "I believe in music, I'm a musician, and
that's my religion. I look at music as something that can move
the mind, the body, and the soul. My voice is just an instrument,
but the soul is coming from a higher power. So I want to take
whatever comes down from that and project it into the music and
present it to the world."</font></p>
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Troubadour </font></b></td>
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<td width="240" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial Black" size="2">Track
Listing:<br>
1 Intro<br>
2 Daddy Please<br>
3 Who am I<br>
4 Bastard Child<br>
5 Hustla's Theme<br>
6 For the Love of Money</font><br>
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<td width="240" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial Black" size="2">7
Ghetto Music<br>
8 Sweet Land<br>
9 Mary Ann<br>
10 Mississippi<br>
11 Get Somethin'<br>
12 Hey Young World<br>
13 Child of Life</font></td>
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