Franki Love
Santa Monica, California, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | INDIE
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Award winning independent singer-songwriter Franki Love gears up to start production on her next album, Make Love, with noted music producer Warren Huart. Love's fans have an active part in making Love's next album a reality, contributing through Kickstarter.com. With the deadline for funding through Kickstarter.com ending on Valentine's Day, Love's brought in at least $500 more than the $7,000 she was looking for and will be giving away four tracks from her first album, Franki Love, on Feb. 14 until Feb. 18. - Yahoo News
Award winning independent singer-songwriter Franki Love gears up to start production on her next album, Make Love, with noted music producer Warren Huart. Love's fans have an active part in making Love's next album a reality, contributing through Kickstarter.com. With the deadline for funding through Kickstarter.com ending on Valentine's Day, Love's brought in at least $500 more than the $7,000 she was looking for and will be giving away four tracks from her first album, Franki Love, on Feb. 14 until Feb. 18. - Yahoo News
Franki Love, a promising, pop/AC singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA, has won the SongwriterUniverse “Best Song Of The Month” Contest for March, for her song “Love Like It’s Never Gonna Hurt.” This song is featured on her debut 11-song CD Franki Love, which she released independently in the summer of 2007.
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“Love Like It’s Never Gonna Hurt” is an elegant, midtempo ballad which includes a romantic lyric theme and an appealing pop arrangement. The highlight of the song is its chorus, which has a soaring melody that is embellished by graceful harmony vocals. This recording was expertly produced by Paul Inder (who played guitar and bass), and also features Love’s fine lead vocals and piano playing. Playing drums on this song is Charlie Paxon, who played on James Blunt's first album.
Love was born and raised in Long Island, NY where she learned to play piano at a young age. She was inspired by listening to such artists as the Beatles, Tracy Chapman and Carole King. Love started writing songs when she was 12, and in high school she performed in musical theater productions.
Following high school, Love moved to Southern California, where she first studied at U.C. Irvine and subsequently graduated from Cal State Long Beach, majoring in film and electronic arts. It was during this period that Love also developed her songwriting, and steadily performed live at L.A. venues. “I started playing in coffeehouses and clubs, and the response was terrific,” recalled Love. “It made me feel like I was moving in the right direction with my music.”
Franki Love performing live at the Bitter End club in New York City.
Love’s live performances led to her being named Female Singer/Songwriter Of The Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards. Then in early 2007, she began working on her debut album Franki Love, recording tracks with producer Paul Inder, and with writer/producer David Choi.
Another key song on her album is “Shadow,” for which a video has recently been filmed by Bryan Robbins. The video will be released in April, and “Shadow” will be promoted as a single.
With the success of “Love Like It’s Never Gonna Hurt” and “Shadow,” Love is certain to gain recognition and exposure, both online and via radio play. Notably, Love is about to sign an artist management deal, and she is also working on songs for her next album, which will be released at the beginning of 2010.
- By Dale Kawashima
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Franki Love is an award- winning singer/songwriter/pianist residing in Los Angeles. A classically trained pianist, she grew up playing the piano at age four and also plays the guitar. Love started her career by performing at local coffee shops in Los Angeles and then winning the attention of many notable producers and musicians. She garnered success at the L.A. Music Awards as "Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year" and winning single of the year for her song "Shadow". Her song "Shadow" also was recognized by the "Billboard International Song" contest. Love's song "Love Like It's Never Gonna Hurt" won "best song" from Songwriter Universe and she has also won awards from ASCAP. Besides her solo artist career she also composes and performs music for TV, movies, and video games, such as singing the English-language opening and ending songs used in Media.Vision's role-playing game Wild ARMs 4. She has been involved in composing music for projects with Tony Kaye, director of American History X. Her self-titled debut album was released independently in 2007. In her spare time she also donates her efforts to Soldiers' Angels, a non-profit organization providing aid and comfort to the family members of US soldiers. Franki Love has successfully funded her ep album through Kickstarter and recorded her first 2 singles of her album with producer Warren Huart (The Fray). "Now Is The Time" was released in 2011 with the album available on iTunes on August 10, 2011. Franki Love promoted "Now Is The Time" with performances in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco in late 2011 and performed at Cannes Film Festival in May 2012. "Now Is The Time" won "best song" from Songwriter universe. Franki Love released her 3rd album "Now Is The Time- Dance Remixes" with Japanese label Somode on August 30, 2012. In 2014, Franki successfully funded her sophomore full length album exceeding her goal of $14,000 and is now working with grammy award winning producer David Kershenbaum (Fast Car, Tracy Chapman) with a release date set for 2016-2017
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