MARVA KING - BIO
MARVA KING
While perhaps best known for her starring role as Helen in the Tyler Perry’s 60 plus mega-million dollar grossing DVD “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”. She also spent 4 years as a vocalist, dancer & percussionist with Prince and the New Power Generation, Marva King is a true multi-media sensation whose talents and ambition continue to expand with every new creative endeavor.
Today, King prepares for the release of her long awaited 2018 solo CD titled “Soulicious.” It embodies R&B, Funk, Rock & Soul, and Dance Music from the Old & New Skools. Collaborating with Jesse Johnson formerly with The Time, producer, composer and 1 of the greatest guitar players in music history, who along with Prince help establish what listeners for 4 decades have deemed the “Minneapolis sound.”
King’s new music will be released Independently on her Marvalous Works Entertainment label. She is also general manager and a featured performing artist in the band “New Power Soul for the new “Prince Rogers NelsonFamily Records label.
Look for an Original Music CD giving homage to Prince, created by former NPG band members plus 3 new members. www. NewPowerSoul.co
The multi-talented producer, singer/songwriter and recording artist conceptualized, co-wrote & produced her last single “Steppin” in 2012 featuring rapper Alpha Red & Christopher Williams. It rose quickly on the Top 20 U.K. R&B charts.
While perhaps best known for her starring role as Helen in the Tyler Perry’s 60 plus mega-million dollar grossing DVD “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”. She also spent 4 years as a vocalist, dancer & percussionist with Prince and the New Power Generation, Marva King is a true multi-media sensation whose talents and ambition continue to expand with every new creative endeavor.
Today, King prepares for the release of her long awaited 2018 solo CD titled “Soulicious.” It embodies R&B, Funk, Rock & Soul, and Dance Music from the Old & New Skools. Collaborating with Jesse Johnson formerly with The Time, producer, composer and 1 of the greatest guitar players in music history, who along with Prince help establish what listeners for 4 decades have deemed the “Minneapolis sound.”
King’s new music will be released Independently on her Marvalous Works Entertainment label. She is also general manager and a featured performing artist in the band “New Power Soul for the new “Prince Rogers NelsonFamily Records label.
Look for an Original Music CD giving homage to Prince, created by former NPG band members plus 3 new members. www. NewPowerSoul.co
The multi-talented producer, singer/songwriter and recording artist conceptualized, co-wrote & produced her last single “Steppin” in 2012 featuring rapper Alpha Red & Christopher Williams. It rose quickly on the Top 20 U.K. R&B charts.
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King sang with and for Michael Jackson, Prince, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, George Howard, 2Pac, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Yolanda Adams, Anita Baker, Will Downing, Norman Connors, Ronald “Mr. Biggs” Isley of The Isley Bros. just to name a few. Her upcoming (untitled) cd slated for release 2nd quarter 2017 is a melodic & grooving 10 tracks that further establish King’s virtuosity as a solo artist after her career as a backing & featured vocalist. Marva; “The key to the success of this project is that I’m expressing myself with total authenticity,” King says, “musically as well as emotionally and spiritually. I’m sharing my beliefs and some of my innermost secret feelings and thoughts about myself and the world around me.”
Blessed with a dynamic vocal range and a multitude of influences, King’s recordings include elements of R&B, soul, funk and reggae. “Soulicious” is focused on a range of music genres, as her mentor Prince did in his successfully illustrious career.
Her previous Indie solo recordings include The One (2010), Grown & Sexy (2007), Soul Sistah (2005) and Light of Day (2003), while Soul Sistah enjoyed rave reviews by the British, Asian and European music critics. The album entered the Top 30 charts at #5 and quickly rose to #2, surpassing Indie Arie, Teena Marie, The Isley Brothers and Donnell Jones, among others. King’s most noted recordings is her Solo debut album Feels Right on Electra/Planet Records 1981, produced by Richard Perry.
A native of Flint, Michigan, Marva King has been performing nonstop since the age of four.
Blessed with a dynamic vocal range and a multitude of influences, King’s recordings include elements of R&B, soul, funk and reggae. “Soulicious” is focused on a range of music genres, as her mentor Prince did in his successfully illustrious career.
Her previous Indie solo recordings include The One (2010), Grown & Sexy (2007), Soul Sistah (2005) and Light of Day (2003), while Soul Sistah enjoyed rave reviews by the British, Asian and European music critics. The album entered the Top 30 charts at #5 and quickly rose to #2, surpassing Indie Arie, Teena Marie, The Isley Brothers and Donnell Jones, among others. King’s most noted recordings is her Solo debut album Feels Right on Electra/Planet Records 1981, produced by Richard Perry.
A native of Flint, Michigan, Marva King has been performing nonstop since the age of four.
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In addition to her vast resume as a session singer—which also includes recordings by Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Jimmy Cliff and Chaka Khan—she co-wrote The Whispers’ single “Innocent,” which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Hot Singles Chart and sold more than one million units worldwide. King also wrotethe lyrics & melody for ”A piece of Love” on Lionel Richie’s CD “Louder than words.” Over the years, she has performed live with Lenny Kravitz, Seal and Will.i.am and toured with many affiliated hit makers.
King’s mesmerizing delivery inspired Larry Flick to write in Billboard, “Marva King is a supreme diva, and her name will go down in history as one of the best.” In 1997, Prince took her on the road, under his wing, and made her a member of his group, New Power Generation (NPG)—a stint that included recording on his New Power Soul album. In 2007, she reunited with Prince for another series of arena and intimate venue concerts, which included the record
breaking “21 Nights Concerts” at the 02 Arena in the UK, as well as recording on his Lotus Flower recording in 2009; she also made several appearances in his bestselling coffee table book “21 Nights.” King managed 15 shows of her own in between the Prince dates. “Those two years were intense,” she says. “I was exhausted the entire time, yet it was so exciting. I learned a lot about performing from Prince.”
Other career highlights include Stevie Wonder hiring King as an eager teen; performing on “Natural Wonder,” a double album recorded live in Osaka and Tel Aviv in the mid 90’s.
King thanks American Idol’s Randy Jackson for her first production jobs at Sony in the early ‘90s, a stint that made her one of the few female producers at that time in the music industry.
Reflecting on her journey, King says, “One of the things I have learned from acting is the importance of communicating your “truths” with people, no matter how apprehensively uncomfortable you may feel to expose your deepest emotions. I’m doing that more with my recordings.
Cooking is King’s secondary passion. Marva creates & modifies many culturally popular dishes & cocktails. She maintained a 3.6 GPA as a Culinary student at the prestigious Arts Institute. Look for “something Artsy” reflecting this undeniable skill!!
Many exciting things on the horizon in 2018 for the woman many have given the name
“Marva The King.” ?
King’s mesmerizing delivery inspired Larry Flick to write in Billboard, “Marva King is a supreme diva, and her name will go down in history as one of the best.” In 1997, Prince took her on the road, under his wing, and made her a member of his group, New Power Generation (NPG)—a stint that included recording on his New Power Soul album. In 2007, she reunited with Prince for another series of arena and intimate venue concerts, which included the record
breaking “21 Nights Concerts” at the 02 Arena in the UK, as well as recording on his Lotus Flower recording in 2009; she also made several appearances in his bestselling coffee table book “21 Nights.” King managed 15 shows of her own in between the Prince dates. “Those two years were intense,” she says. “I was exhausted the entire time, yet it was so exciting. I learned a lot about performing from Prince.”
Other career highlights include Stevie Wonder hiring King as an eager teen; performing on “Natural Wonder,” a double album recorded live in Osaka and Tel Aviv in the mid 90’s.
King thanks American Idol’s Randy Jackson for her first production jobs at Sony in the early ‘90s, a stint that made her one of the few female producers at that time in the music industry.
Reflecting on her journey, King says, “One of the things I have learned from acting is the importance of communicating your “truths” with people, no matter how apprehensively uncomfortable you may feel to expose your deepest emotions. I’m doing that more with my recordings.
Cooking is King’s secondary passion. Marva creates & modifies many culturally popular dishes & cocktails. She maintained a 3.6 GPA as a Culinary student at the prestigious Arts Institute. Look for “something Artsy” reflecting this undeniable skill!!
Many exciting things on the horizon in 2018 for the woman many have given the name
“Marva The King.” ?
