Artists In The Spotlight founder
Kenneth Hillyard has created two musical projects that bring together international musicians from various backgrounds to create music together. The projects include:
Magdalene and
Center Of Gravity. There are two additional profiles,
Titiritero and
The Gimpy Dexter Project, which are solo projects.
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Magdalene features two tracks written by Isabel Ann Hillyard Budolfsen. The first track,
"I Wonder Where you Are (My Love)" is a song about death from a child's perspective in which Isabel,
only 9 years-old at the time, is asking that eternal question: "What happens when we die?" The second track,
"Shadow Girl", is a heart wrenching song about schoolyard bullying. The third track from this project,
"Falling", will be released in 2024.
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Center Of Gravity is a musical project that brings together Spanish artist
Ana Sánchez Rodríguez and French artist
Juan Rozoff.
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Ana Sánchez Rodríguez is a professor by day and founding member, singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of the Spanish Inde Rock band
no_ignore. Her songs have received tens-of-thousands of streams on the streaming services, and she can often be seen playing around
Girona and
Barcelona, either with her full band or solo acoustic sets.
Juan Rozoff is a mulit-instrumentalist that pioneered the “new Parisian groove scene” in the 1990s, paving the way for those that followed in his footsteps. He has collaborated with Bootsy Collins , Maceo Parker, and Fred Wesley. In addition, he has opened for James Brown , Larry Graham , George Clinton , Temptations , and Maceo Parker, and been featured on tracks such as “Sexy 17” by David Guetta.
The solo projects:
Titiritero focuses on Jazz with a Spanish flavor.
The Gimpy Dexter Project has a jazz-funk feel to it.