Santigold
Santigold performing in Guadalajara, Mexico 02/2008
Background information
Birth name	Santi White
Born	(1976-09-25) September 25, 1976 (age 35)[1][2] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	New Wave, dub, electronica, hip-hop, reggae fusion, pop [3][4][5][6]
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, rapper
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Lizard King Records (2007) Atlantic UK, Downtown, Roc Nation
Associated acts	Stiffed, NASA, The Lonely Island, Amanda Blank, Spank Rock, Major Lazer, David Byrne, Beastie Boys, Jay-Z,Diplo, Red Hot Chili Peppers

Santi White (born September 25, 1976), better known by her stage name Santigold (formerly Santogold),^[7] is an American songwriter, producer, and pop singer. Her debut album Santogold was released to positive reviews in 2008.^[8][9] Her new album Master of My Make-Believe is announced for spring 2012.^[10]

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Santi White attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then later attended college at Wesleyan University, where she double-majored in Music and African-American studies. The artist got her pseudonym in the 1990s from a friend's nickname for her.^[11] She worked for Epic Records as an A&R representative, but left the position to co-write and executive produce How I Do, the debut album from the singer Res.^[12]

White was the singer of the Philadelphia-based punk rock band Stiffed,^[13] whose 2003 album, Sex Sells, and 2005 album, Burned Again, were produced by Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer.^[14] While in this group, she was offered a solo contract by Martin Heath of Lizard King Records.^[15]

[edit] Santogold : 2007-10

Her initial singles "Creator" and "L.E.S. Artistes" received attention from Internet media in 2007.^[16]

Her debut album, Santogold, was issued in April 2008. It was conceived with fellow Stiffed member John Hill.^[17][18] The record featured appearances and production work from Chuck Treece, Diplo,Switch and Jonnie "Most" Davis, amongst others.^[19] Santogold was hailed by both Entertainment Weekly and Spin.^[8][18] "L.E.S. Artistes" was placed at number two on Rolling Stone 's Singles of the Year,^[20] while Santogold was sixth on their albums of the year list.^[21] "Creator", along with "Lights Out",^[22] appeared in commercials in the United States^[23][24] and in the United Kingdom.

During the summer, the singer released on CD a mixtape called Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub which was well received by Pitchfork^[25] and NME.^[26]

Santigold at Eurockéennes, July 5, 2008

To promote her debut album, Santigold toured with M.I.A. and Björk.^[19] In June 2008, Coldplay invited her to be their opening act in the U.S.^[27] Santi's own US tour was called Goldrush Tour.^[28] After the tour's completion, she supported Jay-Z and Kanye West on a number of their shows^[29][30] and then The Streets at BBC's Electric Proms.^[31] She finished the tour opening for Beastie Boys for a few concerts.^[32]

In February 2009, White announced that she changed her initial stage name to Santigold for reasons related to a possible lawsuit from director Santo Victor Rigatuso, who produced the movie Santo Gold's Blood Circus.^[33]

The second leg of the tour finished in August 2009 at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago.^[34] Billboard noted that she "delivered a bright set and drew a headliner-sized audience" for a late afternoon concert.^[34] Before leaving the stage, she announced she was preparing to compose for another album.^[34]

[edit] Master of My Make-Believe : 2011–present

In 2011, White published the song "Go!" which featured Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The track was produced by Switch, Q-Tip and Santigold herself. NME praised it as a "brittle and brilliant brawler of a track" with "great reverberating militaristic kettle-drum booms".^[35]

Santigold announced that the follow-up of Santogold would be out in spring 2012 : it was recorded in part in Jamaica.^[10] Talking to Billboard, she described her forthcoming album as "sonically eclectic but with some epic curveballs thrown into the mix".^[36] It was co-produced in part with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek.^[10] The singer said about her new record Master of My Make-Believe :^[10] "I want it to be about creating your own reality. I have a song called “The Keepers”: “we’re the keepers, while we sleep in America our house is burning down".^[10] "Big Mouth", the first track and video from the album was issued in late January as a free download.^[37] During the first months of 2012, Santigold is set to tour as opener on the U.S. leg of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' I'm with You tour.^[38] In February, an animated video for "Disparate Youth" was uploaded to Santi's official YouTube channel,^[39] as the first single of the album. "Disparate Youth" was also issued via ITunes in the U.S and a UK version with several remixes is released on 8 April.^[39] The album Master of My Make-Believe is out on 23 April.^[40] The album was critically acclaimed.

Collaborations[link]

Besides her own work, Santi White (a.k.a. Santigold) has also collaborated with a number of other artists. She co-wrote the title track for GZA's 1999 album Beneath the Surface, which featured Res.^[41] White also went on to co-compose and produce a majority of Res' album How I Do in 2001.^[12] White later appeared on the song "Stay in Line" on GZA's 2002 album, Legend of the Liquid Sword.^[42]

In 2007, White also appeared on Mark Ronson's Version, performing on a cover of The Jam's "Pretty Green", in her first performance credited as Santogold. White co-wrote Lily Allen's "Littlest Things" with Ronson,^[24] and co-composed for Ashlee Simpson with Kenna, including the lead single "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)".^[43]

In 2008, she recorded a song with N.E.R.D's Pharrell Williams and The Strokes' Julian Casablancas for Converse.^[44] Santigold explained that the musicians recorded the song separately and did "their own separate thing", "so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate."^[45] The song, "My Drive Thru", was available for free on Converse's website.

That same year, a track called "Brooklyn Go Hard", produced by Kanye West contained a sample of Santigold's track "Shove It".^[46] It appeared on the soundtrack to The Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious.^[47] The song was also released as a download via subscription to (RED)Wire, with a portion of the profits going towards Bono's Product Red organization.^[48] "Brooklyn Go Hard" debuted on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at number 62.^[49]

In 2009, she also sang on the track "Whachadoin?" with M.I.A., Nick Zinner, and Spank Rock for DJ collective N.A.S.A.'s debut album, The Spirit of Apollo,^[50] as well as a song entitled "Gifted" with Kanye West and Lykke Li.^[51] She then collaborated with Basement Jaxx's on their Scars album : she did vocals on the song "Saga".

In 2010, Santigold, alongside Switch and Sam Endicott of The Bravery, helped write the Christina Aguilera songs "Monday Morning" and "Bobblehead" for the album, Bionic.

In 2011, she appeared on the Beastie Boys album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, and was featured on the track "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win". She also took part on The Lonely Island's 2011 album Turtleneck & Chain : she sang on the track "After Party". White collaborated with Spank Rock on "Car Song", for his album Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A Fucking Liar.

In 2012, Santigold was one of the guests on Amadou & Mariam's album, Folila : she was featured on the track "Dougou Badia".^[52]

Style and influences[link]

White's style has been compared often to that of M.I.A.^[53] White said of the M.I.A. comparison that they are both "women who have similar influences and have worked with some of the same people," but that her "music is different and she wasn't influenced by what the press was saying", adding "I can't think of anybody who would be a better fit of somebody who I'm like... I think what's accurate about that comparison is that she's an artist who has loads of different influences... and is putting things together in a way that's unexpected and genreless."^[19][54] Santigold and her friend Amanda Blank have been described as being part of "a new crop of young, multicultural, female acts in the wake of M.I.A. causing a stir on the internet and in indie-label conference rooms."^[55] White also stated her liking for new wave music,^[19] and added that "My Superman" is an interpolation of a Siouxsie and the Banshees' song, "Red Light".^[56] Santigold has stated that she is inspired by 1980s pop music. "I felt that a lot of pop music from the '80s had a depth to it, and I hope to bring back some more good pop songs."^[19] The singer cites Devo as her "ultimate favorite band".^[57] White also grew up listening to a lot of reggae, jazz, Fela Kuti and Nigerian music; her main influences are James Brown and Aretha Franklin.^[58]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 2008: Santogold
• 2012: Master of My Make-Believe

Singles[link]

• 2008: "Creator"
• 2008: "L.E.S. Artistes"
• 2008: "My Drive Thru"
• 2008: "Lights Out"
• 2008: "Say Aha"
• 2011: "Go!" (featuring Karen O)
• 2012: "Big Mouth"
• 2012: "Disparate Youth"

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Reed, James (September 23, 2008). "Sass master Santogold takes it to the limit". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/09/23/sass_master_santogold_takes_it_to_the_limit_1222138261/. 
• Ahead of the Curve, Yet Again April 27, 2012

External links[link]

• Official site
• Santigold on Myspace
• Santigold on Twitter
• Santigold discography at Discogs

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Big Mouth (Lakota: Itȟáŋka) (born 1822–died October 29, 1869) was an Oglala-born chieftain of the Brulé Lakota, highly regarded by the Brulé for his bravery and aggressive military leadership. He was one of the chiefs who signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868^[1] and remained a bitter opponent of further American settlement, ridiculing Spotted Tail and other Sioux chieftains upon their return from a mission to Washington, DC. He was sixth son of Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864) and twin brother of Blue Horse.

One of the principal chiefs at the Whetstone Agency, located along the Missouri River, where most of the Brulé and Oglala bands had gathered, Big Mouth gained increasing support for his stance among members of the tribe. He criticized what he described as Spotted Tail's reversal of Sioux policy, saying Spotted Tail had been entertained by American politicians and given a personal tour through the major cities of the east coast. Faced with increasing opposition to his leadership, Spotted Tail visited Big Mouth at his lodge, where, upon approaching the entrance, Big Mouth was seized by two warriors and held down while Spotted Tail shot and killed him.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Grant, Bruce. The Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian. New York: Wings Books, 2000. ISBN 0-517-69310-0
• Spartacus Educational:Spotted Tail

External links[link]

• AccessGenealogy.com - Indian Tribal Records: Brule Sioux Chiefs and Leaders

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Spank Rock is an American hip-hop group consisting of rapper Naeem Juwan (MC Spank Rock) and producer Alex Epton (XXXChange). Their style is generally described as a mix of underground alternative rap, electro and rock.

Biography[link]

Spank Rock began performing in Philadelphia and Phoenixville, where their reputation quickly increased. They later toured with Hollertronix and M.I.A.. They also toured with Beck in 2006.^[3] Spank Rock's debut album YoYoYoYoYo was released in 2006 on the Big Dada record label. In Late 2007, Alex Epton aka XXXchange, left Spank Rock to pursue his own production.

In June 2011, Spank Rock officially announced that his second full length album, Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar, would be released September 27, 2011 on his own label, Bad Blood Records.^[4] Pitchfork.com premiered the first single from the album, titled "Energy," produced by Boys Noize and based on a beat from Can's song "Vitamin C".^[5] Pitchfork also reported that the upcoming album will feature production from Boys Noize, XXXChange, Diplo, Crystal Castles, Pharrell and Sam Spiegel, and features Santigold.^[6]

Their single, "Bump", was named Single of the Year by Xfm London breakfast DJ Lauren Laverne in 2006.^[7] "Backyard Betty" was featured in a scene from Harmony Korine's 2007 film Mister Lonely. "Bump" was also played at the beginning of an episode in season three of Entourage. A remixed version of "Bump" is played on a Wish-Bone salad dressing commercial. In the video game Need for Speed: Carbon, the song "What It Look Like" appears. In Madden NFL 07, "Backyard Betty" is featured. Also, an instrumental version of "Loose" is in the game NBA 2K9. Spank Rock is one of the faces of Alexander Wang's 2011 T collection, along with Santigold.^[8]

In June 2007, Spank Rock signed a deal with Downtown Records.^[9] Spank Rock's first Downtown Records release came in the form of fall 2007's Benny Blanco & Spank Rock Present: Bangers & Cash EP, a 2 Live Crew inspired 5 song EP.^[10] Spank Rock also contributed a rap on the "Benny Blanco" remix of the track Heart Beat Rock; taken from Australian singer Kylie Minogue's 2007/8 Grammy nominated album "X".

In 2010 MC Spank Rock was featured along with The View's Kyle Falconer on "The Bike Song" by Mark Ronson, which featured on Ronson's 2010 album Record Collection. He was also the touring rapper on the album's 2010 UK tour.

In 2011, their song 'Energy' was featured in the EA Sports game, FIFA 12.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• YoYoYoYoYo (2006)
• Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar (2011)

Singles[link]

• "Put That Pussy on Me" (2005)
• "Rick Rubin" (2006)
• "Sweet Talk" (2006)
• "Bump" (2006)
• "Energy" (2011)
• "Car Song"(2011)

EPs[link]

• Benny Blanco & Spank Rock Present: Bangers & Cash (2007; Downtown)
• E. I. B. A. E. I. A. F. L. Remixes (2012; Bad Blood)

Other releases[link]

• Couche Tard (2006)
• FabricLive.33 (2007)

Appearances[link]

• "D.A.N.C.E." (Remix featuring Mos Def and Spank Rock) (2007)
• "Kick Drum" from Noise Won't Stop by Shy Child (2007)
• "Back It Up" from Ed Rec Vol. 3 by Feadz (2008)
• "Keep My Composure" from Brotherhood by The Chemical Brothers (2008)
• "Heart Beat Rock" (Benny Blanco Mix featuring Spank Rock) from X by Kylie Minogue (2008)
• "Shove It" from Santigold by Santigold (2008)
• "Trick or Treat" from Stainless Style by Neon Neon (2008)
• "Radical Businessman" from Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt by Japanther (2008)
• "Roll That Shit" from Booty Breaks Vol. 3 by Deekline & Wizard (2008)
• "Ultraviolence" (Remix featuring Spank Rock) by Heartsrevolution (2009)
• "Wachadoin" (featuring Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold, & Nick Zinner) from The Spirit of Apollo by N.A.S.A. (musical group) (2009)
• "My Eyes" (featuring Spank Rock, Theophilus London, Melo-X & Zakee) from Mishka and Ninjasonik present Darth Banhao by Mishka and Ninjasonik (2009)
• "Backseat" (featuring Spank Rock, Lady Tigra & Damien Adore) from Backseat - Single by Staygold (2010)
• "Park The Truck" (featuring Spank Rock) from Tons Of Friends by Crookers (2010)
• "The Bike Song" (feat. Kyle Falconer & Spank Rock) from Record Collection (album) by Mark Ronson (2010)
• "Church is on Fire" by Rebecca & Fiona from I Love You, Man! (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Spank Rock on Myspace