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Bianca Raquel Reveals Sensual Music Video for ‘Nympho’
Bianca Raquel, an NYC native and Berklee College of Music alumni, is a multi-faceted creative, utilizing her skills in songwriting, producing, arranging, and creative direction to communicate her artistic point of view.
Bianca Raquel has been expressing herself with mediums such as production, arranging, and songwriting for as long as she can remember. Her father is a world-renowned musical director, musician, arranger, and producer whose work ethic and dedication to excellence inspired a hunger for musical knowledge and depth in young Bianca.
As a child, Bianca Raquel fell in love with performing, practically growing up in Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater where her father worked as musical director during her infancy all the way up until she started college. It was at the Apollo where like a sponge, Bianca intently watched performances both professional and amateur, soaking up information and paying close attention to the audience’s reaction. The Apollo granted Bianca Raquel a master class in showmanship which she’s carried and nurtured throughout her artistic journey.
Her studies at Berklee College of Music, where she majored in Professional Music, gave her access to knowledge that further sharpened her skills. This prestigious institution and its endless hordes of musical prodigies and jazz savants allowed her to connect with like-minded creatives and continue to focus on her lifelong interests in arranging, songwriting, producing, and performing.
After attending Berklee, Bianca Raquel started as a performer opening up for artists such as Dwele, Bilal, Talib Kweli, and Nona Hendrix. Bianca has gained experience performing in various venues throughout NYC, the DMV area, Los Angeles, and overseas in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin.
Bianca’s vocals, production, and songwriting have been featured on networks such as VH1, MTV, and Lifetime and in movie franchises such as ‘Step Up’.
Presently, Bianca Raquel is gearing up for the debut of a music video for her sensual single ‘Nympho’.
The genre-blend of R&B and Jazz within this particular offering showcases her artistic dynamics. The track features a steady bass line, sexy guitar accents, and layers of encompassing, sophisticated harmonies that collectively illustrate the subject of passionate anticipation.
Bianca Raquel comments on the release, “Nympho is a sexy declaration edging the listener to a musical climax. The music video provides an ambient, fly-on-the-wall-after-an-acid-tab experience.”
As the creative director, Bianca’s goal was to create a video that evokes intimacy but in a “trippy” way. The director Clyde Ramos and Bianca Raquel have brought forth a vision that feels both intimate and psychedelic.
Bianca Raquel is looking forward to exploring her creativity by way of more music and visuals soon.
This October, Hip-hop inna yardie style (old school fusion between reggae and hip-hop) collective L’Entourloop are set to rock UK stages, with shows in Liverpool, London & Bristol. Their Bristol date at The Trinity Center and their first London date at Village Underground are already SOLD OUT, leading to a second London date being added to deal with the high demand that L’Entourloop’s unforgettable shows create.
The dates will see L’entourloop hitting higher than ever as they perform tracks from their huge back catalogue, as well as their latest 20 track album “La clarté dans la confusion” (“Clarity in Confusion”).
Produced in their now legendary Bandulu Studio, the new album is a result of a patient production process, carried out with care and passion. Throughout the album, L’Entourloop testifies in its own way via a puzzle of film samples, of this strange period that we have just gone through collectively, using all its savoir faire when it comes to make the people dance.
Since 1964, when the song “My Boy Lollipop” flooded the European radio airwaves, L’Entourloop’s love for reggae and its culture has never stopped growing. With this third album, they wanted to pay tribute to the legendary pioneers of this incredible movement – artists and producers such as Tom Wong, Count Machuki, Prince Buster and Lee “Scratch” Perry. An album which is a true declaration of love for soundsystem culture and its children – reggae, dancehall and hip-hop.
The success of their previous albums “Chickens in Your Town” (2015) and “Le Savoir Faire” (2017), with their famous “Banging Hip-Hop Inna Yardie Style” quickly brought L’Entourloop into the spotlight, along with their hundreds of shows performed all over Europe. The mysterious collective continues to bring together an ever-growing audience around the world, as proved by their hundreds of millions of plays on music platforms.
True lovers of vinyl and old cinema, in their perpetual quest for the ultimate sample, the insatiable diggers kept their fans waiting by first dropping the excellent DJ-Mix “Start From Scratch” in the summer of 2021, followed by a series of 3 official remixes, including the Reunion Island anthem “Li Sem”.
Another striking characteristic of L’Entourloop is the great ability of King James and Sir Johnny to gather incredible guests from around the world. Whether with Skarra Mucci and their now classic “Dreader Than Dread” or their excellent EP “Golden Nuggets” (2019), Capleton for the extravagant remix of “Burn Dem Down”, producer Panda Dub they collaborated with on “Le Bonheur” or French singer Biga Ranx for their hit “Push The Limits”, L’Entourloop has the gift of giving birth to collaborations that mark the spirits.
With no less than 32 guests from all over the world, MCs fling lyrics like guns like in a western movie and the new album is no exception!
On the reggae side, Jamaican legends such as Ken Boothe and Bounty Killer meet new generation stars such as Alborosie, Kabaka Pyramid, Queen Omega and Marcus Gad. On the hip-hop side Chali 2Na from legendary US group Jurassic 5, Swedish MC Promoe from Looptroop Rockers, US rapper Rêverie, the excellent JuJu Rogers, French beatmaker Degiheugi and the irresistible South African female rapper Dope St Jude all make appearances.
The UK vibe can also be felt with features from jungle and dancehall pioneers General Levy and Tippa Irie as well as heavyweights of the grime scene Flowdan, Lady Chann and Killa P. Fellow French artists are also in the spotlight with guests such as Big Red, O.B.F and Manudigital. To complete this amazing cast, L’Entourloop has once again called on the incomparable Troy Berkley from Bermuda and the talented trumpeter N’Zeng, formerly of Le Peuple de l’Herbe, to accompany the collective on the road alongwith a new addition – excellent Dutch rapper BlabberMouf, who has just joined the killer new live show.
L’Entourloop UK Tour 2024
05/10/2024- Liverpool (UK)- Hangar 34
06/10/2024- London (UK)- Village Underground – SOLD OUT
07/10/2024- London (UK)- Village Underground
08/10/2024- Bristol (UK)- Trinity Center- SOLD OUT
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