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“You’re Going To Catch My Vibe”

THE FIRST LADY OF BEST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM TAKES OFF LIKE A ROCKET

Panessia Young (formerly Panessia Ruff) was born in Columbia, SC on March 22nd to a father in the military and her mother a housewife that took care of her and her 3 younger siblings. Panessia grew up in a military family in which she was able to travel outside of the United States to Amburg, Germany. There Panessia started Middle School and with her family she began singing in talent shows every chance she could get. As Panessia entered High School her interest in music grew even stronger from still singing in talent shows to being recorded in a friends home studio, creating songs and performing in plays. After Panessia graduated High School she got into music even more and taking it much more seriously as began to pursue a career in music. She started going to Quantum Beats Studio in Columbia, SC in 2008 where she completed he first album self-titled Panessia (Available on all platforms now). As she continued to record she was blessed with the opportunity to open for legendary RnB Soul Singer Lenny Williams in July 2010. In February 2011 she opened for Calvin Richardson and in February 2011 Panessia traveled to Los Angeles, CA to audition for the wildly popular singing competition show The Voice. Though Panessia was not selected she did not let that deter her as she continued to work on her craft. In 2015 Panessia was once again blessed to sing for a great artist in the music industry. She was selected as one of the performers for South Carolina's own Angie Stone. Panessia's musical influences are the late great Whitney Houston, Patty LaBelle, Alicia Keys, and Mary J. Blige. Today Panessia Young is a unsigned Independent Artist still, singing, writing, performing, and creating as she has been featured on various Independent Artist in South Carolina music such as Korona Corleone, Teedo Gonzalez, Twuan Blaze, J. Juice and is heavily sought after by other artist. Panessia along with her husband Steve are part of Best In Da Solar System Management Group with Coalition DJ and Independent Artist Promoter Supreme DJ Surplus (Billy Swanson), her cousin Korona Corleone, Felicia Lucas, and Comedian Skip G. Lawson. Though a new upstart management company they are pushing ahead and Panessia is their first artist to release an album. I Can Only Be Me is Panessia's second full feature album to be released and will be available on all musical platforms beginning November 6th 2021. You can find Panessia's music and videos on YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, iTunes and various other musical platforms. You can follow her here on her United Artist Page, Facebook (Panessia Young) or Instagram chinadoll_1.

gbako Chukwuma Snillow also known as MC Snillow is the CEO and founder of kapon empire/ kodorojo limited, which is a record label and charity organization. MC Snillow is an activist, a humanitarian, musician and talent manager. Snillow started his music journey at the age of six, rapping and jumping over people's songs. Born and raised in Enugu (coal city) by anambra state parents, MC snillow grew up in a music family. His late grand father was a popular flutist, and also a part of a traditional music band that covered many prestigious events in Enugwu ukwu village in anambra, where he lived. MC snillow's father grew up and became a popular DJ known as odo disco in the 70(s) and early 80(s). While Snillow's grandma was in a traditional dance group, Snillow's mum was a chorister in the church choir. As a kid, he was encouraged to join the church choir by his mum. Nobody knew the stuff he was blessed with till he started free-styling and winning rap battles in this hood as a teenager.After his graduation from the university, MC Snillow decided to take things to the next level by launching his own label, kapon empire, in 2016 to aid him and other musicians put out their own music. He signed many artists to his label. As time went on, he part ways with a few of his artists, leaving only

MC Snillow Contin…….PG and DONADON to continue the journey with him. As an activist…MC Snillow uses his voice and music to speak for the ghetto and the oppressed people in Africa. Most recently, he have been very vocal about the killing of biafrans in Nigeria. He has been in front line of many protests, most noticeable was the end sars campaign which was aimed at putting an end to police brutality in his region. As a humanitarian...MC Snillow uses his Kapon empire foundation to reach out to underprivileged kids. His foundation also aids elderly people and widows, etc. As a musician... In 2018, he surprised the world when he went from being a manager to a recording artist with the release of the music, I STILL SEE NO CHANGE, a conscious song that addresses socio economic and political issues happening in West Africa, and the world. But due to the song’s political content, it was banned by the government of the day. Fortunately, the song found it ways to the international community and gained some amount of airplay that made MC Snillow to be nominated for 2020 indie music award in Florida, and DET DETROIT music award. In 2020, he teamed up with flak Gaza, a New York based rapper to make a wonderful song called “scared of our brothers”. He’s expected to drop a new single called I can’t breathe with 2-slik who is a white rapper from South Carolina. Also, he’s done another unreleased song called “what’s going on”, in the song, he featured “turq sane”, a female rapper from Detroit. As RADIO SHOW HOST….MC Snillow has a radio show called african voice which airs on blessings 107.3fm radio in New York. This you can live stream on www.grandarts.org and also, his show is aired on mid west Minnesota radio @ www.mwmnradio.com In the show, Snillow teaches about african history and spirituality. MC Snillow was nominated for 2020 indie music award in Florida, he was also nominated for DET music award in Detroit. And lots more. While he stands at as the recipient of sistah soldiers in the trenches award, to mention but a few. After writing for so many magazines in America like verb’z up magazine in Las Vegas, blessings magazine in New York, to mention but a few, Snillow took things to another level by launching his own global Kapon empire magazine. KE magazine is a monthly magazine which The printed and online copy could be purchased at www.magcloud.com

The official site of Snillow and his Kapon empire is www.kaponempire.com

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