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The platinum-selling urban/pop musician Lyfe Jennings was the featured artist in "The Experience," a highly successful consumer event held at Chicago's DuSable Museum of African-American History on June 1, 2006. Granting fans an intimate performance and up-close conversation, Lyfe joined the ranks of such esteemed artists as John Legend, Patti LaBelle, CeCe Winans and Lalah Hathaway, all of whom have previously participated in this special event.
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R&B crooner Lyfe Jennings has set an August release date for his sophomore album, "The Phoenix" (Columbia/Sony Urban Music). The inmate-turned-artist penned all the tracks on the album, as with his 2004 debut effort "Lyfe 268-192." A first single is expected to be released next month.
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In 1992, Lyfe Jennings went to jail for arson. As Lyfe refers to many times in his music, while in jail he turned his life around. Lyfe continued to write music and rekindle his faith in God. Lyfe served a little over 10 years behind bars.
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Lyfe Jennings has always possessed confidence. Even while Lyfe's body was held prisoner for ten years behind steel bars and concrete, his mind and soul were free, the power of his imagination opening the gates to the world outside the penitentiary. While serving his sentence and paying his debt to society, Lyfe never lost the ability to focus on what mattered most to him: music. With the release of The Phoenix, his much-anticipated sophomore album, Lyfe Jennings opens his heart and shares a new collection of finely-rendered reality-based songs, portraits of life drawn from experience and seen through the eyes and soul of a poet.
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In November Lyfe chose to sign with Sony Urban, a new division under Columbia Records. Lyfe will be the flagship artist on Sony Urban. He's slated for an April 2004 release. He will begin touring November 26th, 2003 with Anthony Hamilton. As one of Budweiser's True Music Live Artists, Lyfe will be seen on a 30-city nationwide tour beginning early 2004.
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Lyfe talks to Gayle about his 10 years in prison. Lyfe was just 15 years old when he was convicted on charges of arson. While serving time, he focused on singing as an outlet. "Basketball and weights just weren't doing it for me," he says. "And I just started writing with the stuff that I was going through and ... the stuff that I saw, because I started paying attention to the people who were there—their successes and failures—and incorporated that into the music."
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