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Jennie Walker is a singer, songwriter, actor, voice over artist, charity fundraiser and humanitarian who believes in the triple bottom line approach to business. As a member of the prestigious Artists Against Hunger & Poverty Program of World Hunger Year, she made a personal pledge to ensure that all of her musical performances, and music business activities have a charitable component, where she can give back to the creative community. The Connective ? Series is her latest effort to provide quality education for the creative community and also raise awareness and funds for important charities. The Series has been covered in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Columbus Ledger Enquirer, Good News Broadcasting, WBAI 99.5FM Amsterdam News, and Harlem News. The Connective ? Series continues to work as a bridge between Ms. Walker?s two loves: music and charity.
Jennie Walker won the British Airways Face of Opportunity Contest in 2011 for her music business pitch around her debut album ""Night Flighth to London", and spent a month in Europe promoting her music as a result of the competition. Jennie Walker finished working with 12-time Grammy nominated and platinum selling producer, Tommy Faragher, on her debut album, due iOctober 3, 2011 . They have received national and international recognition for their song, ?It?s Our Time?, which was inspired by Senator Hillary Clinton?s New Hampshire Primary win and gained an enormous following among Clinton supporters and was written about in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, French Daily papers La Croix and Le Libre, and regional publications Temple Daily Telegram, Columbus Ledger Enquirer. They had a #1 song placement on top UK indie band site, Overplay, as well as the new Japanese indie band site, YouMusic. She won the Overplay Play & Rate competition in 2007 for their song ?Black Hat.? Their song ?Simon? is on the ?Pure Sounds from the Underground? compilation CD. Jennie was awarded the 2008 Indie Artist Award from Starliners, an internet radio station in The Netherlands in September 2008. She has also been nominated for the 2009 Indie Artist Award by Starliners. The Artists Forum in New York named her one of the Top 10 Artists to Watch in May 2008. She was featured in the New York Songwriters Circle Showcase at The Bitter End. Her mobile website, www.jenniewalker.mobi, was nominated for the I Love Mobile Web Awards in 2008. She is featured in the June 2009 issue of Internet Radio Magazine and she is currently nominated for the magazines Indie Artist Award 2009. Jennie is also a regular featured guest on The Alumni Show on GU2 Radio at 1350 AM/for the University of Surrey, outside of London, England, a college radio station, which follows her musical journey weekly.
Jennie Walker's song "I Wanna Show The World" was featured in Delta Airlines inflight audio program on the Hello Music indie channel during May/June 2011. Her album "Night Flight to London" is getting full support from British Airways with the entire album avaiable in the Easy Listening section of the inflight audio for six months, from August 2011 through the end of January 2012.
Jennie Walker is a regular user of the social networking tool TWITTER and tweets daily about her musical journey. Through the use of TWITTER (www.twitter.com/msjenniewalker), Jennie has gained recognition for her effective use of the tool to further her music career, which has resulted in magazine features, radio shows, usage of her songs, a redesign of her artist website, and a 12 month publicity campaign, and participation in a UNICEF fundraising campaign called 12for12K (www.12for12k.org). Jennie launched her own Jennie Walker Live Broadcast, which is promoted through TWITTER and a weekly PodCast Series to follow her music career,
Jennie Walker is an Advisor and President Emeritus of the Georgia Music Industry Association (GMIA) where she produced monthly music education panels, song critiques, Open Mic Night?s as well as an annual Country Music Songwriters Showcase and an all genre Songwriters Showcase, during Georgia Music Week Festivities. She was awarded GMIA?s President?s Award for volunteer service in 1997. She has also appeared on top radio and TV programs such as WBAI 99.5 FM New York, HOT 97.5 FM Atlanta, Good News Broadcast, and Good Day Atlanta. She has been written up in China Today. Walker also helped to produce the 2006 charity CD ?Serve? for World Hunger Year and The Hard Rock Caf, which featured the artists Bruce Springsteen and Aerosmith, as well as numerous other top recording artists.
Jennie Walker is a member of ASCAP, The Recording Academy, and The Association of Independent Music Publishers.
Jennie Walker maintains a blog detailing her music career at http://jennierox.wordpress.com/
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http://www.jenniewalker.com
