ItsAboutMusic.com Signs Pop-Rock Group The Villas

(PRWEB) April 5, 2005

ItsAboutMusic.com, the web's first Internet-Only Music Label is pleased to announce the signing of Pop-Rock Group The Villas to their roster of more than 200 great artists.

Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits Says:

"Wow! FAB! I LOVE the Villas CD! Sounds like POP to me!"

Rolling Stone Magazine Says:

"Remember when pop music could rock? Remember singing along to a harmony-rich ditty that didn't insult your intelligence? Well, you can pull your head out of that nostalgic stupor because the Villas have arrived. This husband and wife Power Pop team gets everything right: the hooks are rich, the musicianship sharp, and the lyrics are literate but never pretentious. Their 1960s-Merseybeat-meets-1980s-New-Wave songs stack up nicely with the Plimsouls, the Smithereens and the skinny Elvis Costello of yore. That's very good company to keep and proves the Villas know how to cure a broken heart with the kind of songcraft that makes the Monkees a better band than Pearl Jam. Plenty of these tunes belong on the radio."

The Villas are a husband and wife pop duo whose self-released debut in April, 2000, "Secrets," garnered enough praise and attention to land them a slot at L.A.'s International Pop Overthrow that same year. Both are vocalists and guitarists (Angel Ali Villa is on lead guitar, while providing harmonies to Bill Villa's lead vocals) and the duo work together as a songwriting team.

The Villas are based out of Allentown, PA, Bill Villa's hometown, where they met in the late '90s through a personals ad penned by Bill, who is the creative director of his own advertising company. Focusing more on his business, Bill Villa's music-making had been at a stand-still for awhile before meeting Angel Ali.

Angel Ali Villa came from her hometown of Elizabeth, NJ to Bethlehem, PA to study at Moravian College and later Kutztown University. She counts the Beatles, the Smiths, AC/DC, and Neil Sedaka among her many musical influences and she fronted a few local bands as lead guitarist and songwriter during the mid-'80s before deciding to focus on a career as an art teacher. She did not play her guitar — much less write songs — for several years before meeting up with Bill Villa.

Bill Villa came from a musical family; his father sang with big bands and his grandfather was a professional guitarist, while some of his favorite musicians include Emitt Rhodes, Tom Waits, Todd Rundgren, Bruce Springsteen, and Elvis Costello — a name that often comes up in descriptions of the Villas' sound. The early '80s found Bill Villa busy singing and songwriting in a locally successful duo called the Fops; he also became a father of two during this time. Through the rest of the '80s, he managed the rock band Daddy Licks, and this experience triggered his initial plans for musical collaboration with Angel Ali: he wanted to promote her. But the duo soon began writing songs together and Bill decided against staying behind the scenes.

The two found inspiration in one another and became active musically again. They were married in June, 1999, and the Villas released Secrets, featuring a number of musical guests, in early April the following year.

The Villas catalog of music can be sampled at: http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/villas.html

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Promotional downloads of this artist's music are available upon request.

Full album downloads of this artist's music are available for review upon request.

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