Real Name: Daniella Watters
Artist Name: Daniella Watters
Location: Toronto and Los Angeles
"There are singers and there are people who sing songs. Daniella Watters is a singer through and through. She is one of this country's best kept secrets but not for long"
Joe Wood, RDR Music Group.
Canadian Award winning, Daniella Watters has been singing since she could talk. She began vocal lessons at the tender age of 7, recorded her first song at 11, and by age 13 she was touring Canada and the US with her girl pop group Untamed. One of Daniella’s most memorable experiences with Untamed was when she played in front of 10,000 screaming fans in Toronto’s Skydome (now Rogers Centre). Her taste in music has evolved, grown and adapted over the years to suit different contexts and moods. Currently Daniella writes R&B with a Soul influence that is infused with inflections of pop, jazz, and Motown flavors.
Now a mainstay of Canada’s prestigious Canadian Music Week, Daniella first entered the competition in 2012 when she won the Street Idol Contest awarded by RDR Music. This gave her the opportunity to showcase her single "Missing My Love" from her EP, which was placed on several radio stations across the country, such as Proud FM 103.9 and CBC.
Daniella's music has been described by Winehouse Magazine as having a sound that "retains the warmth and funk that made neo-soul/R&B take off in the late 90′s but it refrains from the stale vibe that many contemporary singers get stuck in their attempt to recreate that sound." If you like to dance and vibe to heartfelt ballads, then seeing Daniella Watters bring her music to life in vibrant performance is an experience which is sure to enliven your senses.
Daniella is currently writing, recording, and self-funding her first solo album. The album has influences of R&B, pop, jazz, soul, and funk combining her love of multiple genres into one cohesive piece of art. The first song Daniella has recorded for her upcoming album, “No One Could Love Me Better”, produced by Marcus Kane, which is about meeting Mr. Right on paper, but being unsure of them even though he may be “technically perfect”. She is currently in post production with two more of her songs produced by Nicolas Londono, “Never Will Die” which is a mid tempo song about your soul living forever & “Don’t Do Me Like That”, which is an uplifting upbeat song with aggressive lyrics about standing up for yourself when someone treats you wrongly. Daniella just finished co-writing a new track with Ron Allen called “Nothing Left of Us” and "Open Up" with the talented singer-songwriter Dane Hartsell to be released in 2015.
Daniella shot her music video for her first single “No One Could Love Me Better” in Los Angeles and since then she has landed radio placements with stations in Canada & the US, and the video was recognized by the Recording Academy this year under two categories. Her latest single "Never Will Die" has been getting play on Canadian stations and her video where she performs figure skating routine was recently added to MTV.com.
Her immediate goal is to record a genuine album with both emotive and danceable tunes, along with creative music videos to support them. Her long-term goal is to have the privilege to write and perform music every day and sustain a career with longevity in the music industry. Get ready 2015 for new music and lots of collaborations to be released!
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: WWW.DANIELLAWATTERS.COM
