"I sang 'Any Man of Mine' before I even knew who Shania was," she says. "Then I bought her album, and from then on I was the kid who wound the window down and sang at the top of her lungs. I remember seeing her perform on TV and thinking, "I want to be that one day. I want to do that."

    Ten years later, just 21 years old, Shea is fulfilling that dream, introducing her own brand of cutting-edge country to American music fans. In between, she followed a path Reba knew well, singing the national anthem-in this case Australia's-at rodeo events, then hitting the road to pay the dues that would earn her a growing legion of fans as she polished her performing and songwriting skills.

    Shea's journey toward the country charts began not long after her birth in Victoria, Australia. In fact, her talents on two fronts were evident at a very young age. She was just 3 when, influenced by her parents (rodeo champion father Eddie Fisher and barrel racing champion mother Joanne), she began competing in-and winning-barrel racing competitions.

    "I don't even remember the first ones," she says, but competition and travel with her family became a way of life. She was soon beating 18-year-olds, and she was just 9 when she won her first National Rodeo Association Junior Barrel Racing Title. Many titles would follow.

    Her family's trip to the U.S. expanded her horizons-besides getting hooked on music, she branded cattle and drove her first pick-up truck-and when she returned to Australia at the age of 12, it was as a singer as well as a rodeo champion.

    She asked for and got the chance to sing her country's national anthem at a rodeo and, she says, "loved the adrenaline rush. It was almost the same as getting on a horse or a bull." She met Australian country star Steve Forde at another rodeo and "asked him if I could hop up on stage before he performed and sing a couple. He was wonderful-he let me do it!"

    The two formed a friendship and before long she was touring with him as his opening act. She formed a band, began writing songs and finally went to the U.S. again, this time to record. After that project spawned hit singles in Australia, she returned to the U.S., recording this time with hit producer Richard Landis.

    As sure as Shea introduces a top-notch young singer to American audiences, it introduces an upbeat force of nature as well.

    "I believe the sky's the limit," she says, "for me and for everyone. Dream big. Work hard and you'll get there. It's just a matter of time. I'm going to keep dreaming big and keep striving to achieve new things every day."

    And, with the hard-won wisdom of one for whom being bucked from a horse or bull is no mere metaphor, she adds, "If you fall, get back up again and keep going. Whatever you want to do is possible if you want to make it happen."

    Based in Dallas, this exciting and energetic band with their own distinct sound has been compared to Mutemath, Coldplay, Third Eye Blind and Switchfoot, who they opened up for this past year at Baylor University.

    They put much emphasis on throwing a great live show and spread a message of hope with tenacity and aggressiveness. Their self titled debut CD is receiving airplay and rave reviews from industry leaders, critics, manufacturers and fans alike. Going into the studio this month to complete their follow up CD, 2010 looks to be a promising year for Kingsfall.

    In his 2007 Look At Life Records debut release "Flow", he infuses his guitar methods and dynamic melodies into a collection of songs that truly reflect the albums title. The story of what led MikelParis to New York and the release of his debut album is as interesting and varied as the 10 tracks that make up "Flow".

    Born and raised in Manchester, Connecticut, Paris gravitated to music almost immediately. "I was playing Beethoven by the fifth grade," he reflects. "But I always wanted to sing. Scratch that, I always wanted to sing my way." MikelParis would do things his way throughout his childhood and that social bravery eventually led him to receive a scholarship to the esteemed Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. He began his studies majoring in Jazz Piano, but after two years a disconnect developed in Paris and he once again changed directions and his major to Music Composition. MikelParis's ability to ride the ebb and flow of life's challenges once again proved to work in his favor as the tools he acquired at Hartt would only add to his arsenal of skills so well depicted on "Flow". After school, he entered the world of live music and never looked back. From Germany to Australia, New York to London MikelParis has graced stages worldwide. He joined the renowned cast of Broadway's Stomp merely intensifying his passion for rhythm and groove. He parlayed this experience into joining the touring band of Platinum selling artist Pink, renowned comedy rockers The Dan Band, and eventually American touring staple O.A.R. Throughout the years and over the miles MikelParis never lost sight of his ultimate goal: To put on record his own music, his own words, his own way.

    A New Orleans native whose father taught him blues on piano before he began classical lessons at age eight, Michael also grew up in Memphis and Berkeley, California, getting his first significant professional gig when he was 19 from Latin jazz vibist Cal Tjader. He made his recording debut with Cannonball Adderley in 1975, and has worked extensively with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Christian McBride and many others including the late Warren Zevon and singer Nancy Wilson, for whom he wrote orchestral arrangements and conducted more than 25 major symphony orchestras during world-wide tours. His five-and-a-half year stint as Musical Director of the "Arsenio Hall Show" heightened his visibility and gave him the occasion to meet his wife, actress and writer/director Polly Draper.

    Wolff's own band Impure Thoughts, launched in 2000, is an infectious improvising ensemble, richly percussive thanks to Indian tabla player Badal Roy, drummer Mike Clark (of the Headhunters) and electric bassist John B. Williams, all of whom appear on Love and Destruction, Wolff's latest record and first release on Wrong Records.

    His growing body of movie soundtracks includes The Tic Code (2000), a feature film with the late actor-dancer Gregory Hines that was semi-autobiographical in its depiction of Tourette's Syndrome, which Wolff copes with. Wolff is producer, and Draper writer-director of the upcoming Nickelodeon series The Naked Brothers Band, starring their sons Nat, 12, and Alex, 9 (Wolff will appear regularly as the boys' "hapless, accordion-playing dad"). Wolff produced his first music video for Love and Destruction on the plaintive "Underwater," shooting on-location in post-Katrina New Orleans.