RNB Memories/new rnb demo/snippet

Boys II Men, Commisioned, Toni Tony Tone, KC and Jo Jo, Tevin Campbell... rnb dudes i loved listening to.  those day's were fun for me, listening to rnb back then wasn't so painful "lyrically" used to love singing along like "Although we've come to the end of the road, still i can't let go, its so natural...." and "Do you believe in love, and the promise that it gives, i wanna love you for life... ", reading those lyrics you think, man thats a strong message these dudes put out to one girl, but that's exactly what RnB music did for people, i reckon for those of you who were big fans of the 90's, you could almost say those day's of romance were passionate... My eldest brother used to use me and my other brother as an excuse to take us out to the ice skating rink just so he could see his girl friend from another school, Me and my brother would be there every weekend, skating, getting better and better, while my other eldest brother would be giving passionate kisses to his girl haha, funny thing was, used to change nearly every week LOL.

Enjoy this lil snippet i posted up of an rnb song i'm working on, its only a demo, not finished, not polished, but i love making and sharing music so i want you to listen to it so you get to hear how this song progresses... whether it makes my album or not :-)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/k3xmjwroze0/Howdidyousnippet.rnb.mp3

VH

Opening for NE-YO in NZ

Yep Hes coming to NZ and AUS and I'll be one of his opening acts which is very exciting! Huge thanks to the guys at HOOPDREAMZ. The other International act is Yet TBC! Heres the Info about Neyo and Dates

GRAMMY WINNING, MULTI-PLATINUM, CHART-TOPPING SONGWRITER,

NE-YO,

ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR-

YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN

Grammy award winner, RIAA platinum Def Jam recording artist and chart topping songwriter Ne-Yo will embark on a five-city Australia and New Zealand concert tour starting in Sydney on Saturday 7 November 2009.

The live concert dates are a celebration of his award winning third album - Year of The Gentleman. It is the follow-up to Because Of You (released May 2007), which received this year’s Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and In My Own Words (February 2006) – both of which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

In addition to penning this new collection, Ne-Yo once again showed his writing prowess, penning lyrics for Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Celine Dion as well as the chart topping, record breaking, Grammy nominated song “Irreplaceable” for Beyonce.

Ne-Yo has recently completed a sell out tour of America and with a platinum selling album there’s no doubt tickets to see Ne-Yo live this November will sell fast. Secure your tickets from www.ticketek.com.au when they go on sale on Monday 22 June 2009 for Australia and Tuesday the 23rd June for New Zealand

Ne-Yo Year of The Gentleman Australia and New Zealand Tour

9 November 2009 – Rod Laver Melbourne

10 November 2009 – Acer Arena Sydney

11 November 2009 – Burswood Perth

13 November 2009 – Brisbane Entertainment Centre Brisbane

16 November 2009 – Vector Arena Auckland New Zealand

re-visiting old songs

I've been thinking heaps lately about doing a cover song, a classic song, definitely from an artist that truly inspired me to sing. Alot have come to mind and these are the artists i'm thinkin of:

The Bee Gees, The Carpenters, Al Green, Donny Hathaway, Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder.

My main purpose for re-visiting a song from one of these artists is to show appreciation of how much they shaped my vocal and songwriting ability. And, hopefully i do the song justice, in my own interpretation without damaging the reputation of the song. Alot of artists do this, but I thought it would be good for you all to know personally why I am. And just so you don't think "The Label" put me on to doing it lol.

I'm very close to starting my album so will be updating you shortly of all the good stuff happening in the studio!

VH

Youtube Post: Vince Harder -

In the Tarago with the Dirty Crew, on our way to Canberra.

looking forward to more trips like this with the boys...

VH

Music month coming to an end

Well, to be honest, music month for me has been pretty slow in NZ. I honestly thought that there would be gig's left right and center for me but i guess this ugly word "recession" has really hit people on the forehead. All i can say is WAKE UP PEOPLE, we all need music, you should've be throwin that paper around this month at us performers to entertain, inspire, encourage and enliven. .. hmm maybe it's just me that didn't get work this month, although i did talk to a few others at the pacific music awards last saturday and they've said the same "this years music month has been the quietest for us" quote's Duane from Oyster Entertainment. Normally Sky City would be investing around 100K into entertainment, so this year Duane took Jamoa Jam on tour.

I guess being ahead of the game would have been the way to go, booking gig's in advance from say... march for music month and then it wouldn't be so quiet, I'm just happy that me and the dirty crew had them aussie gig's available, otherwise it would have been really dead for me lol.

To sum up what I have done for this month I'll be posting a video blog real soon for may so keep watching out for more blog's to come.

www.youtube.com/vinceharder

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OZ Gigs

hey all, just got back sunday from sydney. MTV the lair was great, had myself, P-MONEY and PNC performing, will keep you posted about when that will be up.

And... if your in Australia around the time I have these 3 great gig's happening, please come. the dates are all on the posters uploaded. hope to see you there! NZ music month is going great!

V

ps. theres a pic of Me, PNC, P-MONEY and Sam From Grindin records at the world tower apartments :-)

Behind the scenes

"Lyrical Love": Behind the scenes. check it out, Edited by Vince Harder and Jonnie Hettig.

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