Muvolution

Lana brings her ray of Latin injected sunshine to the people and delivers the ultimate break up song 'Don't Call Me Baby'

The single was initially planned as a taste-maker for the music industry, but the response has been huge and the single is now being released officially in October. Don't Call Me Baby has already been played by BBC London and Lana was a featured artist on the London Calling show. First national play of the single came on Chris Hawkins' BBC 6 Show and numerous regional radio have already picked up the vibrant new tune. A video also accompanies the single, a highly colourful and quirky three minutes of Lana playing three roles and delivering whatever women want to say following a break up. Her status as the next breakthrough artist was also cemented when Lana was asked to perform two exclusive sets at this year's prestigious In The City festival.

The single features the lead track 'Don't Call Me Baby' bringing out Lana's Latin vibrancy. Having half her heart resting in Spanish territory, she sings a beautiful version of it in Spanish. Lana's Latin influences were fully honed following a year in Mexico, where she spent that time writing new tunes. Hanging around with a group of Argentinian musicians. Lana followed them through Mexico supporting them at gigs in Cuernavaca, el DF, Pueblo and later Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula. They had a Latin rock band and were informally touring South America, selling artesian bracelets and hand made charms along the way to earn a roof and some bread. Lana sold her handmade silver, her beaded bracelets and necklaces and poured a tequila or two and served some tacos when she had to. While her lifestyle was not luxurious by the standards that we know, the people she met, places she saw, things she learned, were priceless.

Boarding the plane back to the UK, enough was enough. It was time to let the energy and vibrancy loose on London, she has never looked back. Joining drum n bass outfit Virtigo, backing up jazz diva Fiona Renshaw and still managing to tour with the Bluefoot Project and jazz/hip hop collective Thelonious. Not only that, Lana dipped in and out of various other projects, making stops at Glastonbury, Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz Cafe when duty called.

With a mental archive stocked full of years worth of Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina, Janis Joplin, Ella, Nina, Sarah Vaughn, a bit of Neil Young, Beatles, Elvis and rock n roll Lana keeps on writing inspired by the tunes of days gone by. Stripping away the media nonsense 'Don't Call Me Baby' sees Lana take on the current crop of media whores armed only with a voice, guitar and raw talent.