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Vanity Killz

JENNIFER CAMPBELL- Lead Vocals  

A Natural Narcotic, Jennifer’s second full-length album is a revelation, as the 23-year-old singer/songwriter, belying her tender years, delivers songs of depth and insight with a powerfully seductive voice that maintains a fierce presence amid dynamic rock grooves and infectious pop hooks. Produced by Reggie Ashley. A Natural Narcotic is a bravura effort from an old soul with a youthful spirit. The tracks range from the alluring acoustic ballad “Who I am” with its cello filigree, and the sparse, piano-based “Everything” to the widescreen screaming anthem “Simple…Life,” a soaring expression of female empowerment, which Jennifer describes as “The type of song that just says screw you and get over it.” While the subjects Jennifer touches on in her songs are contemporary, her sensibility is deeply rooted. Growing up surrounded by the music of seminal singer/songwriters like The Beatles, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton, and the Rolling Stones thanks to her musician father, Jennifer absorbed everything she heard as if by osmosis, and began writing her own songs at 16. “It’s my personal goal and nothing short of a dream to continue the standard set by those before me,” she says of her timeless approach. “No matter how many songs I write as long as one of them can reach out to someone in some way, then I know I have done my job. For music is the best therapy for a soul to hold on to.” Jennifer, a California native, is no neophyte; indeed, before she’d finished high school, the youngster had notebooks filled with songs and was regularly performing live with the poise of a veteran. Jennifer was 16 when her first album was released “Shake my world” which her father recorded and produced. Not so long after that she was performing up a storm doing many private parties, corporate events, clubs, even Disney Land! Ambitious by nature and powerfully motivated by these gratifying early experiences, Jennifer continued to write, including collaborations with other fellow Musicians, and continued to record, working up a set of impressive demos in L.A. Working with Grammy award winner Engineer Francis Buckley by her side it is not going to be long before you all want your own taste of this Natural Narcotic.

Scott Sheldon The founding father of Vanity Killz, has always been musically influenced since he first witnessed Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock 1969 with his father, he was 4 years old then. By 1975 he had seen many of the most influential artists of the late 60s -70s.  At the age of 12 he and his father built his first electric guitar  & amp by hand.  In 1978 he joined the popular local working band "Black Pearl" and spent the latter part of the 70's playing screaming guitar in every major venue / bar he could get into as a minor. He finally got his big break into pro music in the early 1980's with his band "Rumors" which jetted to local fame in Boston by the mid 80's to support such national acts such as X,  Farrenheit , Letters to Cleo, The Del Fuegos  and The Cars, and a bunch others.

He is also an active member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG and AFTRA) since 1991 and has appeared in numerous major motion pictures and television shows along with print - commercial modeling during his late teens early 20's. AKA - Scott A. Fitzgibbons  of Weymouth, Ma  

"I got my first chance at semi-stardom in School Ties with Brendan Frazier, I got the acting bug after college and spent years working as an extra and character work. During this time I got the opportunity to share the same stage with the 80's Super Group "Farrenheit"  staring Charlie Farren on guitars and vocals. Charlie and Joe Perry of Aerosmith  had played together in the Joe Perry Project  previously and had been buds for a long time, they were  local favorites and had quiet a following as a matter of fact Charlie still has a major local following in Boston.

Now in 2009, he is taking it to the next level as the NEW VANITY KILLZ BAND which has begun touring the So Cal  market since October 2007 -  launching the new OC/LA based super group and will be taking it to the streets in Southern California once again.                                                                                                

John Carbone (Vanity Killz drummer and Clockwork Orange extra) hails from upstate NY but moved to So. Cal to get away from the bad weather, bad traffic & fake people!  He's played in settings of all styles from classical, to jazz, to bluegrass, to reggae, to heavy metal, to baroque, to Latin, to Greek, to ultimately Modern Rock & top 40. When he's not playing any of the aforementioned styles, he likes to play BOTH KINDS of music: country AND western!

If you happen to rummage through his CD collection & find a few Broadway musical soundtracks, don't be alarmed girls, he's straight!

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