Kellee Maize
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Kellee Maize is an American rapper, songwriter
, and entrepreneur
. She was born in New Berlin
, a small town in Central Pennsylvania, but moved to Pittsburgh at age 18 to attend college and has been there ever since. She founded Näkturnal, a guerilla marketing firm. Her debut album, Age of Feminine, was released independently in May 2007, featuring traditional hip hop beats. She financed and released it herself, and distributed it online at iTunes
. "Age of Feminine" got over 2 million plays and 100,000 downloads. Aligned Archetype, released in January 2010, is Kellee's second album featuring the sounds of Dub Step, Hip Hop
, and Baltimore Club
. The album received critical success online and became the featured album for Frostwire
, where she became the Most Downloaded Artist on Frostwire Ever, with over 145,000 full album downloads in 1 month.
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
. She was born in New Berlin
New Berlin, Pennsylvania
New Berlin is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 838 at the 2000 census.-Geography:New Berlin is located at ....
, a small town in Central Pennsylvania, but moved to Pittsburgh at age 18 to attend college and has been there ever since. She founded Näkturnal, a guerilla marketing firm. Her debut album, Age of Feminine, was released independently in May 2007, featuring traditional hip hop beats. She financed and released it herself, and distributed it online at iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
. "Age of Feminine" got over 2 million plays and 100,000 downloads. Aligned Archetype, released in January 2010, is Kellee's second album featuring the sounds of Dub Step, Hip Hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
, and Baltimore Club
Baltimore Club
Baltimore club, also called "Bmore Club" or "Club Music" is a breakbeat genre. As blend with hip hop and chopped, staccato house music, it was created in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in the late 1980s by 2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell, Frank Ski, Big Tony , Scottie B...
. The album received critical success online and became the featured album for Frostwire
FrostWire
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including BitTorrent support. In version 5, Gnutella support was...
, where she became the Most Downloaded Artist on Frostwire Ever, with over 145,000 full album downloads in 1 month.