- Taja Sevelle
Taja Sevelle (born Nancy ,
January 7 ,1972 ) is a music recording artist fromMinneapolis, Minnesota [Larry Flick. "550's Sevelle re-creates herself with 'Toys' set." "Billboard" 11 Oct. 1997: 7, 24. Platinum Periodicals. ProQuest. Accessed 18 Sep. 2007] who began her career in 1987 when she was signed to thePaisley Park Records label by Prince. In the same week she was accepted into theBerklee College of Music in Boston, she was offered a deal from Prince. Her first single, "Love Is Contagious", became her signature song. Taja Sevelle had three more projects following her debut: an album entitled "Fountains Free" (1991), "Toys of Vanity" (1997) and "Good Times" (2001) cd ep.Taja Sevelle has written songs with
Burt Bacharach ,Thom Bell , Prince andNile Rodgers among others. She has song catalogs with Warner Chappell Music Publishing and North Star Music as well as her own publishing company, OW Music. She has also written a 400 page novel "Rain On A River" and is working on her next novel, "The Joke."Additionally, Taja Sevelle invented a kitchen appliance and is partnered with
Larry King of CNN and his wife, Shawn King on the invention.In the late 1990s, she founded the
Matrix Music record label.She is currently devoted to the international charity she founded and headquartered in Detroit, called Urban Farming, which provides produce for food banks. [Martha Groves. "Students put their salad days to good use at vegetable garden; Young planters till the soil for Urban Farming, a nonprofit that gives produce to food banks : [HOME EDITION] ." "Los Angeles Times" [Los Angeles, Calif.] 11 Feb. 2007,B.4. Los Angeles Times. ProQuest. Accessed 18 Sep 2007]
Taja Sevelle founded Urban Farming, a 501c3 that is now the adopted charity of Atlantic Records. The charity started in 2005 with 3 gardens and by 2008 had the equivalent of 600 gardens across the country and abroad, feeding an estimated 300,000 people. The mission of Urban Farming is to eradicate hunger and the paradigm she created includes mentoring, skills training and job placement along with strengthening communities and education about healthy eating and alternative fuels. Taja continues to record in New York and Los Angeles and is working to continue expanding Urban Farming until hunger is a thing of the past.
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External links
* [http://www.tajasevelle.com Official site]
* [http://www.urbanfarming.org/ Urban Farming]
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