Growing up in New Jersey, Victoria White began her musical life listening to jazz artists like Sarah Vaughn and Miles Davis. Eventually her interest grew to embrace a wide array of styles and genres to form her own eclectic sonic blend.

Fortunately now for fans of jazz, rock, folk and R&B, it was all of these influences that began the rudimentary bedroom recordings of the songs she began writing as a teenager. Years before she began working with famed R&B and Earth Wind & Fire guitarist Sheldon Reynolds —who produced her highly anticipated debut album The Upside, White was recording her voice on one tape recorder, her guitar on another and mixing them to create coolly primitive tracks of her earliest material.

Legendary EWF founder Maurice White, who was looking to sign outside artists for the first time to his Kalimba Music label, is excited about making Victoria White the companys first official artist, Kalimba was known primarily for its Earth, Wind & Fire releases, including The Promise (2003) and a re-issue of In The Name Of Love (2006). The singers poetic, easy grooving first single Cant Buy Love ships to smooth jazz and Adult Contemporary radio outlets on March 16.

Completely reflecting the DIY spirit of todays best indie singer/songwriters, White earned a loyal batch of fans from her self-recorded project Home, which she sold via CD Baby. A handful of the songs from that collection were revamped for The Upside.

When asked what inspires her she says, In the end, what inspires me most is the possibility of reaching someone with my musicand Im grateful now, for the chance to be heard.