Danielia Cotton Honors The Late Charley Pride With Moving Cover Of “(I’m So) Afraid Of Losing You Again” Out Today

Performs Hometown Show Tonight September 10th At The Hopewell Theater’s Grand Reopening

Danielia Cotton, who The New York Times says is “soulful enough to fill a revival tent” is honoring the late country singer Charley Pride today with a moving cover of his number one single “(I’m So) Afraid Of Losing You Again.” Listen to Danielia’s stirring rendition of the classic country song here: https://fanlink.to/DCSAOL

On deciding to cover the song, Danielia says, “My grandfather, Ira Brooks, who has since passed, used to hide a copy of a Charley Pride’s album under his bed and that always made me giggle. African Americans weren’t generally known amongst his generation for being great lovers of country music…. and I love that he liked the genre and that the artist he loved was literally the only popular Black artist in country for quite a while. My grandfather was like Charley Pride, in that despite being one of the few Black men in a predominantly small white town, he was loved and respected.”

Danielia fills the song with her own soulful vocals following her uplifting rock and Motown-charged single “Good Day” released earlier this year. Produced by the Grammy-nominated Jeff Cohen (Josh Groban, The Band Perry, Sugarland), “Good Day” arrived with a video shot on the streets of Danielia’s hometown and a bustling Hopewell, New Jersey. Revisit “Good Day’ here: https://youtu.be/6u2iIPVAFQU

This evening Danielia will return to her hometown Hopewell, New Jersey for a celebratory performance and the grand reopening / fourth anniversary of the Hopewell Theater at 8 PM. For more details and tickets visit here: https://tickets.hopewelltheater.com/

Danielia’s artistry is unique and euphonious with soulful vocals merged with gritty, rock ‘n’ roll elements, and her lyrics are spawned by her angst-ridden youth and early life experiences confronting race, gender and wealth disparity. Danielia not only has embraced the notion of Black Rock--she has redefined it. Coming from a small town in New Jersey with few faces of color like her own, Danielia was raised by a single mother who showcased the value of music and education. Although her hometown is more racially diverse now, it was her no-shortcut-taking upbringing that helped her discover rock ’n roll music.

Stay tuned for more to come from Danielia Cotton soon.

TOUR DATES

September 10 - Hopewell, NJ @ Hopewell Theater

ABOUT DANIELIA COTTON

All of Cotton’s original work has been influenced and pulled from her life. She makes a habit of choosing the events and experiences that affected her, that she is able to emotionally recall safely as her powerful performances, as she puts it in her own words, “are a recreation of those life-defining moments”.

Cotton recently released during the COVID shutdown the EP “A Different War”, in which she offers her personal experience of traversing through the intensity of current social issues, racism, greed and the tempestuous waters of love and relationships. As always, her album represents an eclectic musical range, with Cotton being the element that threads it all together. Cotton embodies true artistry untainted by compromise which explains her somewhat long journey to attain serious recognition. Now she has created a new album “Good Day”, to be released sometime in September of 2021. Once again, she will go from soul to arena like rock to a beautiful moaning blues ballad. She has long been fighting for a seat at the coveted music round table but refuses to sacrifice her musical values or sound. She hopes to succeed but says, “If one fan is changed you’ve succeeded. Our definition of success constantly changes as we evolve, but hey, like The Temptations sing, get ready cause here I come”.

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