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Photo Caption 1: GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat partnered with national nonprofit Little Kids Rock and stopped into PS 182 in New York for a special collaborative performance with the music students followed by a surprise generous donation of musical instruments from Guitar Center.
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Photo Caption 2: Elementary school students of PS 182, located in Jamaica, Queens, New York, shown with GRAMMY® award-winning singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat, who partnered with national nonprofit Little Kids Rock to bring a surprise live performance to the school. This was followed by a generous donation by Guitar Center of musical instruments to assist them along their musical journeys.
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About Colbie Caillat:
Colbie Caillat is a two time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who has sold over six million albums and ten million singles worldwide. Her breakthrough hit “Bubbly” remains "one of the best- selling digital tracks in history" and her multi-platinum debut COCO hit #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart upon release, while her sophomore set Breakthrough landed at #1. From 2011?s All of You, “Brighter Than The Sun” went platinum and enjoyed over twenty film and television placements, while seeing acclaim from People and NY Post. She?s also played sold out venues everywhere alongside everybody from John Mayer to Sheryl Crow. Beyond music, she?s an avowed spokesperson and supporter for ASPCA, the Surfrider Foundation, Save The Music, Farm Sanctuary, and The Humane Society of the United States.
For the first time in her decade-long career, Colbie Caillat has made an album exactly the way she wanted. It’s also the first for her newly minted label, PlummyLou Records, distributed by RED.
Eschewing traditional recording studios, Caillat recorded The Malibu Sessions, out Oct. 7, over a two-month period in a rented house in Southern California’s beautiful Broad Beach.
The result is a sun-kissed collection of breezy, buoyant, yet often vulnerable, songs, with timeless harmonies, catchy melodies and a harmonious vibe that recalls classic ‘70s rock. For additional information visit www.colbiecaillat.com.
About Little Kids Rock:
Little Kids Rock is a national nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives by restoring, expanding, and innovating music education in our schools. The organization partners with public school districts to train teachers to run its innovative Modern Band curriculum, and donates all the accompanying instruments and resources necessary to teach popular music in a way that empowers students to experience instant achievement. What began as a single after-school guitar class has since exploded into a national movement that brings free, weekly music lessons to over 250,000 public school children through the efforts of more than 1,700 teachers in 124 school districts nationwide. To date, Little Kids Rock has served more than 500,000 students. More info at www.littlekidsrock.org
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