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Heading into the studio to record her third release, Jenee Halstead arrived at an awkward conclusion: She needed to throw away all of her songs. "I had been thinking a lot about the wild -- about instinct and intuition", Halstead says. "I knew that I wanted to capture these ideas on this album but I just wasn't sure how it would happen. Once I got to the studio and played through the songs, the answer seemed obvious." Halstead decided to scrap all but two songs ("Building you an Altar", co-written with David Wax, and "Heart Song"). Ditching her trademark character...

in just 3 short years, Teresa Jenee has shared the stage with such big-named soul and R&B artists including Eric Roberson, Anthony David, and even Solange Knowles. She's rocked stages in St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, North Carolina, and on campuses such as University of Missouri-Columbia, Webster University, and her alma mater Tennessee State University. She has been nominated 2 years in a row by her city's Indie music newspaper, The Riverfront Times in St. Louis. Last winter, she was even granted her rite of passage as an artist by performing at the world-renowned venues SOB's and Village Underground in New...