Roxxi Jane

You can call me mami/You can call me baby/Everything you dreamed of/I’m your little lady/From my head to my toes – I bling/Pretty girl/Potty mouth/Oh my gosh, you sing?

Yes, she sings. Houston’s fiery new female force has been doing it since she can remember. But only now is she ready to introduce the world to ROXXI JANE.

“I see a lane that’s wide open for a Latin to come in and really stir some shut up,” Roxxi Jane says. “We have JLo, Christina Aguilera – but somebody from Texas, that’s Mexican-American – we haven’t had her yet. There was Selena, and she definitely would have taken it there.

“I want to be that person.”

Big words. But if anybody’s up for the challenge, it’s this sassy, sweet-tart diva, who describes her sound as “sexy, funky, outrageous, daring and edgy.”

“I don’t want to be the typical pop/R&B singer,” she says. “Roxxi Jane is kind-of crazy and out there. It’s so much fun, really being able to play up natural aspects of my personality.”

One listen to Roxxi Jane’s delicious new disc, Everybody Loves Pink, and you’ll agree. It’s a candy-colored rollercoaster of styles and sounds – a carnival of pop, dance, hip-hop and R&B rhythms. (She cites Cher, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson and Beyonce’ as inspirations.)

“I love dance music. I love pop music. Edgy, fun stuff for the clubs,” she says. “The first recording I did was really a joke. It was just me being silly on the mic, a hood-chick voice, just having fun. From there, we just started recording.”

The resulting tunes include the tic-tock groove of When The Clock Stops (featuring Htown rapper Lucky Luciano); Fast Car, with rapid-fire Cali MC Snow Tha Product; and the R&B-laced Hush Hush alongside Kovas (who has worked with Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, De La Soul, Shakira and Kelis).

Everybody Loves Pink also includes the electro-swagger of Lose Control; the Prince-inspired Roll the Credits; and Te Desmadre Tu Pinche Car, a fierce bilingual spin on Jazmine Sullivan’s Bust Your Windows.

“I’ll never forget – my aunt had gone to a Madonna concert, and she came back with the tourbook. I was looking at the pictures of this woman, scantily clad but just amazing and intriguing,” Roxxi Jane recalls. “I was like, ‘I want to be that.’”

Chingo Bling, Houston’s “ghetto vaquero,” pops up during the steamy groove of Fire and produced One More Try, which cleverly riffs on pop standard Mr. Sandman.

“We’re both very headstrong and very opinionated,” Roxxi Jane says of Chingo. “He has his style, and I have my style. But we’re both open to try things. He’s a motivator. He’s a visionary. He sees things in me that I don’t see in myself.”

Miss Roxxi Jane, however, isn’t a newbie to the game. She sang Tejano and mariachi music as a teenager and released a Spanish-language album as Amanda (her birth name) in 2004 on the Universal Latino label. It earned national attention, but the young singer wasn’t happy with the direction her music was taking. She asked to be released from her contract before a second album was completed.

Adopting the name Roxxi Jane, then, symbolizes a rebirth, shedding a musical skin for new adventures.

“I love my name. It’s a very nice, classic name. But it doesn’t really fit with my personality. I never felt like that was the right name for me professionally,” she says. “I even had an identity crisis as a kid. I called myself Roxanne and made everyone else do it, too. Jane is a contrast – the plain side of me that’s there, too.”

But don’t expect this diva to ever play it safe.

“It’s going to be wild,” she says. “Buckle your seat belts. There’s no straight-shot. Lots of twists and turns.”

Everybody Loves Pink due Spring 2010.
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