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City & State: Long Island City, NY

Country: USA

Music Genre(s):: AAA

Bio:: Fearless honesty, poignant lyricism and powerful melodies are the textures used to weave Allison Tartalia’s unforgettable music. Her compelling and expressive performances have charmed and thrilled audiences throughout the country. Allison’s new adult-alternative project, “Sweet and Vicious,” is a lush melodramatic pop EP. The songs feature Allison on piano and a variety of vintage keyboards. Strings and horns help to create the atmospheric soundscape. With “Sweet and Vicious,” Allison proves that she is ready to bring her music and her career to new heights. A staple on the New York music scene, this Queens based artist is no stranger to accolades and applause. Allison was recently nominated for an Emmy alongside fellow composers for the music that they created for the documentary 5,000 Miles From Home. Her debut CD, "Ready," was enthusiastically greeted by critics and tracks from the album received airplay from coast to coast. Allison was a songwriting finalist in last years Solarfest and at the Connecticut Folk Festival and the Billboard and John Lennon Songwriting Contests have also recognized her work. Allison has been composer/arranger for two original musicals, “Birds on Fire” and “1918: A House Divided” (book and lyrics by award-winning playwright Barbara Kahn). Both shows were produced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning community cultural center, Theater for the New City. On "Sweet and Vicious' Allison digs deeply into her personal history, exposing failed relationships and family struggles. In the title track, she talks openly about the complexities of her relationships with men “until I’ve tasted your poison, I shall have no peace.” Other songs explore the pressures of honing her art in the concrete jungle, as well as how she coped following her mother's cancer diagnosis -- including the weight of becoming her mother’s caretaker; the unraveling of her relationship with her boyfriend during that trying time; and the untimely death of her mother, who was also her best friend and confidente. You hear in her words the attempt to compartmentalize these situations in order to deal with the pain. You empathize with her in “Ran”, wanting to reach out and help her find her way through this maze of loss and muddled emotion. And in the final chapter you feel a pure release and peace at Allison’s realization “It’s just a body. It’s just a body. It isn’t her.” “Sweet and Vicious”, was produced by Grammy Award winner Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan, Lenny Kravitz) and is due to be released in July of 2011. On this project Allison Tartalia fills a void in the music industry. Allison is a woman who knows that every line is well earned war paint. Allison gives us a space in which to reflect, grow and speak our own truths from a place of learned confidence, insight and serenity. She gives us the permission to fall, pick ourselves up and start all over again. “Sweet and Vicious” is a project which has the transcendent depth to put Allison Tartalia and her music on the map.