(New York, NY - 4Sight Media - April 24, 2007) Team Embassador, an eclectic fusion of Hip-Hop, R&B, Roots Reggae, Soca and Pop Rock that you can’t help to sing and move along to will be opening for Def Jam Recording artist and songwriter, Ne-Yo on two dates in New York before headlining a few dates of their own.
The first performance is May 1st at Ne-Yo’s Album Release party at Avalon, 20th Street & 6th Avenue hosted by Power 105.1 Radio personality, Ed Lover, with DJ S&S and DJ Dallas Green on the turntables. The second date is May 12th with Ne-Yo, Monica and friends at Utopia’s Paradise Theater located at 2413 Grand Concourse at 187th Street in the Bronx. Tickets range from $45-85 and can be purchased by phone at Ticketmaster (212)307-7171 and online at Ticketmaster.com.
Comprised of Trinidadian native, R-DeLeon (R-DeLeon means “Rhymes of Leon”), and Jamaican, B-Tizzy who have built their street buzz from a mixtape series, Team Embassador Presents Pirates (now in its third volume), Team Embassador will release their debut album, System Overload this Summer 2007 on EMB/Lightyear Records. Tracks from the album have already been leaked to the streets, so the duo will add tracks and re-release System Overload with new music just before the back to school season begins.
On their debut, R-DeLeon’s raspy voice layers against Tizzy’s melodic vocals and the result is an album that sways, rocks, dubs, jumps up, and leans back at the same time. A writer, producer, and former radio show host R-DeLeon’s music has appeared in many TV shows and movies including MTV, Oxygen Network, UPN, NFL Network, E! True Hollywood Stories, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, and America’s Top Model. Tizzy is a singer and dancer formerly with Jamaica’s legendary dance group, Bone Crusher. Together their live performance set against a full band (drums, bass, keys, percussion, guitar, and horns) brings the audience to frenzy.
To ensure that the album had a little something for everyone, Team Embassador brought in Adam Kling aka Madadam (Britney Spears, Black Eye Peas, Snow, and Bush) who co-produced the majority of the songs on System Overload. Special guests include Big Diz, Shad, singer Nakiea and rockers Jonny Lives. You’ll hear rock, hip-hop, reggae, soca, and pop influences from crowd-pleaser, “Get Something And Wave,” to “Island Girl,” inspired from Harry Belafonte’s trademark song, to the laid back “That’s What’s Up,” featuring Jonny Lives, the album’s first single.
“There’s no fun in records anymore,” shares Tizzy. “On our album, we wanna take people to a place where they can just have fun with music again.”! R-DeLeon adds, “We recently performed at HOT 97’s ‘Who’s Next,’ concert and before we got on the stage, everybody had their ice grill on. At first we thought it was gonna be a rough audience because we’re not straight hip-hop or straight reggae dancehall, or even straight rock, but by the time we left the stage it was all hands in the air. When we were done, the party went with us. People were having fun and that’s what music should be about.”
After setting the stage on fire with Ne-Yo, the duo will launch several dates on their own bill including June 8th, 7pm at Montclair Highschool locate at 100 Chestnut Street in Montclair, NJ. The performance will benefit Montclair Police and Fire Department’s annual charity basketball game and funds will be distributed to three different recipients who are suffering from hardship. “These are serious needs right in our community so when the Montclair Civic Association asked us to perform, we wanted to bring the fun and peace to the lives of these families if only for 30 minutes,” explains R.DeLeon
You’re guaranteed to get something new and different on every song selected for System Overload. So load your IPOD and disc player, free your mind, and lace your Chuck Taylor’s. Team Embassador’s gonna take you back the mosh pit, back to dancing and partying and if you can catch them onstage ‘get something and wave.” Yeah, that’s what’s up!
Visit Team Embassador online at www.teamemb.com and www.myspace.com/teamembassador.