Jade Sarson

Vocalist Rebecca Jade has carried a journal in her backpack ever since she was a college athlete at UC Berkeley. She journaled her thoughts, feelings, reflections and experiences in the form of poetry and song lyrics. However, although she sang and came up with the album title “A Shade of Jade,” she didn’t consider herself to be a songwriter and didn’t have the confidence to put out original material, so she just toted the notebook around thinking “one day.” That day has arrived. Jade opened the pages of her journal to create ten R&B, jazz and pop songs that she wrote and co-produced with Carnell Harrell for “A Shade of Jade,” which drops October 14 from LadyJade Music.

IMPERIAL JADE is a bluesy hard rock band born in Maresme (Barcelona) in 2012 . The band was founded by five friends loving thundering Classic Rock tinged with crafty organic 70s psychedelia : Francesc Lopez (Drums), Alex Panero (guitar), Arnau Ventura (vocals), Hugo Nubiola (guitar/keyboard), and Ricard Turro (bass) .They released their first record "Please Welcome" in November 2015, a bombastic rock album that was acclaimed in all press, securing top positions on best releases of the year lists.

The act of writing music is an extremely personal and therapeutic expression of oneself, a chance to understand ones own emotions and channel them into something that reflects that state of mind. For Jade MacRae to then release this and find success is another feat that only few artists can master.

Jade were an R&B vocal group from the 1990's who had a number of hit songs on the charts, with their biggest and most well known song on the pop charts being "Don't Walk Away". They also received success through their songs "I Wanna Love You", "One Woman", "Looking For Mr. Do Right", "5-4-3-2 (Yo! Time Is Up)" and "Every Day Of The Week". In between their studio albums, their record label worked with Black Entertainment Television (BET) for a TV special, which turned into a live album. They found themselves working with the jazz/rock band Chicago for their 22nd album, Night & Day (Big Band), after releasing album #2 but that also seemed to curse them. When they were about to begin working on their third album, that is when Giant/Reprise dropped them, which would lead to their break-up.