Angel Sessions

Angel Sessions is a 16x award-winning American singer and songwriter, a Grammy voting member, and an NAACP Music Voting member. The road to success hasn’t been easy, but after 20 or more years in the music industry, Angel Sessions has proven she is in it to stay. Angel started early on as an R&B recording artist. Before her first deal with Pittmobile/Ichiban Records and Volt Records, Angel was traveling to Guam, performing at the Grammy’s pre-party in Los Angeles, and performing at the same venue with acts such as The Whispers, H-Town, Teena Marie, James Brown, Eric Benet, and many more. She also performed on many local television stations in the Bay Area and was interviewed on local radio programs. Angel Sessions writes all of her own lyrics. “Ever since I can remember, I’ve always written songs of love to my heavenly Father. It was a gift God has given me along with the ability to sing.” Angel began singing in church. She was one of the lead singers that would perform a special song when called on. After years of local performances in the Bay Area and the Los Angeles area, Angel was introduced to producer/songwriter Fred Pittman, who would take her career to the next level. In 1998, Angel signed a deal with Pittmobile Records distributed by Ichiban Records. She released her first album entitled “Introducing Angel.” Her first single release, “She Was Never Her,” written by Fred Pittman and Preston Glass, got radio airplay on over 80 BDS stations and was received well. Angel also did a remix of “She Was Never Her” with music by Felton Pilot, from the group Con-Funk-Shun. The buzz about Angel was beginning to spread, and many people in the music industry were hearing the name Angel Sessions. Her first album released on Ichiban was released in 1998. Angel did a duet on that album with L.J. Reynolds, lead singer of The Dramatics, recording the song entitled “Hello Love” with music by Michael Powell, lead singer of the group Con-Funk-Shun. Ichiban sold the company in 1999. Angel was introduced to the Vice President of Fantasy Records, Phil Jones. Angel had already recorded her second album “Love Ride” in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the time was shopping for another deal for her new project. Phil Jones loved the album, and it was soon released in December 1999 on Volt Records. The single “Get It Right” from the album was also released to all of the radio stations around the country. A video was also shot for the song. Actor/Director Fred Williamson played Angel’s father in the video. The album was also received well and had a small write-up review in Rolling Stone magazine and was mentioned in Billboard magazine. Angel Sessions also had the opportunity to tour with S.E.A.P. (School Entertainment Activity Program) in Los Angeles, California. This was a great way of getting the artist's music heard and brought on demand by all of the middle school and high school kids in Los Angeles. A lot of major recording artists were a part of this event, such as Usher, Brandy, Destiny’s Child, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Rome, Tyrese Gibson, Christina Aguilera, and more. The Love Ride album was taking off at a good start for Angel. Volt Records also signed Lenny Williams, Brenda Holloway, Freda Payne, The Delfonics, and The Dramatics. Each of them did a one-album deal, and Angel had the opportunity to record backup vocals on their albums and also duets. She was also introduced to Maurice White, lead singer of Earth, Wind & Fire. Angel sang on two of Maurice’s songs that would later be placed on The Stylistics album in 2010 entitled “Painted in the Sky.” Many great producers contributed to the album “Love Ride,” such as Claytoven Richardson, Preston Glass, Andre Rivers, Larry Batiste, F.L. Pittman, Andre Cymone, and Tony Camillo, who wrote the song "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips. The album created a buzz for Angel. Billboard magazine and Rolling Stone wrote a review about the album. Tony Camillo wrote the song “Inconvenience” on Angel’s album “Love Ride.” It was written for the movie “Held Up” starring Jamie Foxx and Nia Long. TriStar Pictures wanted Angel Sessions' song as the leading song for the movie soundtrack. The original title of the film was “Inconvenience,” but it was soon changed to “Held Up.” Because of the change in the title of the movie, Angel’s song was not chosen; however, Angel was invited to the movie premiere to meet Jamie Foxx and the cast and to see the film in Santa Monica, CA. In 1999, Angel was introduced to Mary Wilson, formerly from the talented and famous girl group, The Supremes. In 2004, Angel got a call from Mary Wilson’s manager to travel around the country singing with Mary Wilson as The Supremes. In 2005, Angel released her first gospel recording album on CD Baby. The album entitled “He Loves You” began the new journey in the gospel world of music for Angel Sessions. She auditioned to open up for Fred Hammond at the San Diego State Fair in 2007 and was later asked to do two shows, performing on two different stages, on that same day of the event. In 2007, Angel also opened up for Carol Thomas in San Diego, CA, performing two of her songs. Both years of 2007 and 2008, Angel Sessions performed at the Warriors games, singing the National Anthem. In 2012, Angel released other gospel material. She shot her first two gospel videos, “Chasten” and “You Got Him, You Don’t.” Both videos were received well by her fans. Angel released her next video in 2013 entitled “You Can.” In one hour after the release, it went viral to over 9,000 views. Angel released her 7th album “You Send Me Higher” and EP “If You Love Me” that same year. In 2014, her latest album “Hearts of Broken Love” gained exposure from fans around the world after the release of her single “Get Up” from the album. It was released to radio stations and charted at number 1 for 11 weeks on the National US Charts. “Hearts of Broken Love” also charted on Amazon at number 14 for best Gospel music download. Angel was also nominated for best Female Artist in the Underground Music Awards 2014, in which Nicki Minaj, who won in 2008, and J. Cole, who won in 2010. Angel released her 9th studio album entitled “Songs of Comfort” on April 28th, 2015. The album was a bestseller in Soul, Praise and Worship, and Contemporary Christian top 100 for 14 weeks on Amazon. She released her new single “Jesus is Coming Soon” in February 2015 and “Don’t Let Go,” her second single on March 24th, 2015, which also topped the Contemporary R&B charts, crossing over from the gospel area at number 8 bestselling gospel music on Amazon. Angel received 8 nominations for the song “Don’t Let Go” in 2015 and 2016. Angel also released her third single from her album entitled “He’s the Same” that went to #1 on praise and worship on Amazon bestselling. It was released on June 30th, 2015. Angel is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy). She has been featured in VHM Magazine 2016, Encore HD Hair Magazine, Popular Magazine, Billboard Magazine, Hype Magazine, Say What News online magazine, Sun Reporter Magazine, and Magic Music Magazine. Angel has also had her songs featured on the Coast 2 Coast mixtape 4 times and was nominated for the Underground Music Awards for most promising female artist and nominated for the ALT Music Entertainment Awards for the best female artist in 2015 and 2016, The Hollywood Music In Media Awards for best song “Don’t Let Go,” and “The Great I Am DiscaL Remix” Universal Achievement Awards for Best Gospel Artist, Gospel CD Review Nominee, Northern California Music Awards for Best Gospel Artist, The Akademia Music Awards for the song “Don’t Let Go.” Angel continues her success on her new label Atlas Elite Entertainment. She loves sharing her talent with all of her fans, and she is so grateful for the support many of her fans have shown her. Angel released her new album “Know Them by Their Fruits” on November 24th, 2015. It charted at #7 for Best Urban Gospel Artist. Her current single “No Fear,” released on December 1st, 2016, debuted at #1 movers and shakers top 100 on Amazon and 6 weeks since the day of pre-order and release from Amazon at #2 Praise and Worship. Angel has been nominated for a total of 10 music awards, and she has won for Best Female Artist of the year at the Northern California Entertainers Awards 2016 and is currently nominated for the Northern California Entertainers awards 2017 for Best Female Gospel artist. Angel is featured in Popular Magazine and Flex Magazine. Her latest EP on Atlas Elite Entertainment entitled “I’m In Awe of You” topped the 100 Amazon Charts for 6 weeks starting at #3 Bestselling album. Her new album “I’m Who