TRAEDONYA!

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TRAEDONYA! born Traedonya Chequelle is an American musician, recording artist, singer-songwriter, record producer, activist, rapper, model and showgirl. Often known simply as Traedonya, she began her career as a child musician and rapper. After attending high school in New York City, she went on to study Jazz and Fine Arts.

Early Career

The youngest female MC on the underground in the late 80s' TRAEDONYA!'s professional background in music started in her early teens, when she recorded her cult classic “Do The Boogaloo” on Tuff City at 13 years old, produced by Errol "Pumpkin" Bedford, courtesy of Profile Records. The record was a hit in the United Kingdom underground clubs and in Germany. Photographed by Ian Paul Lawrence, the record cover is one of the very first record covers for females in Hip Hop and Rap. A few years later after "Do the Boogaloo", she recorded another single titled “Sixteen” on that same label. Moving on between doing background and vocal session work, she became the lead singing vocalist with the Hip Hop group X Clan and appeared on Professor X The Overseer's "Years of The Nine" single that reached Billboards Top 100 on the R&B Charts in 1992.

SAMPLE THIS!

TRAEDONYA! signed her first major record deal as the lead singer and co-writer of the Funk/Jazz band Sample This! on Elektra Records in 1993. Friend and mentor Hip Hop legend Large Professor of Main Source, Nas, Eric B and Rakim to name a few, played a huge part in putting TRAEDONYA! together with the several other musicians. The musicians brought together by Large Professor included producer and engineer Anton Pukshansky along with percussionist and producer Curtis Watts of Smoking Suckas With Logic SSL and Roy Ayers fame. Together, along with TRAEDONYA!, they became the group Sample This!, recording two full length albums for Elektra, only to release one album on that label. The unrelease of the second full length album, resulted in a lawsuit unknown to the public with Warner Brothers, where the members of Sample This! were paid an undisclosed sum for the breaching of their contract by Warner/Elektra.

Appearances

TRAEDONYA! has appeared on several Socca and Reggae songs with various artists in the Caribbean, such as ALantonio, Brukup, Kulture Don, Arrow of "Hot Hot Hot" fame and Dancehall Queen Patra. While living in London, Thad Baron of Universal Publishing introduced TRAEDONYA! to "MOBO Winner" Phoebe One and Structure Rize, who she later recorded with.

Solo Career

While her band Sample This! took a break from recording and playing out, TRAEDONYA! moved to England and signed with Prohibition Entertainment releasing her song "Beloved", touring Europe In 2003 with the single. "Beloved" Stayed on the National DJ Times Charts for 27 Weeks. In 2009, Prohibition Entertainment released a new TRAEDONYA! single called "I'll Give It 2 U". In 2010, a remix EP of "I'll Give It 2 U" was released, featuring global mixes of the tune. "I'll Give It 2 U" was one of the most played songs on New Media radio in 2011.

Studio Albums

  • "I'll Give It 2 U" Prohibition Entertainment 2010
  • "I'll Give It 2 U" Prohibition Entertainment 2009
  • "All Night Long" ft. Patra Street Heat 2008
  • "Beloved" Remix EP Prohibition Entertainment 2003
  • "Beloved" Single Prohibition Entertainment 2003
  • "Do The Boogaloo" Tuff City 1987

Discography

  • "I'll Give It 2 U" Prohibition Entertainment 2010
  • "I'll Give It 2 U" Prohibition Entertainment 2008
  • "All Night Long" ft. Patra Street Heat 2008
  • "Beloved" Prohibition Entertainment 2003
  • "[...] Gun" Spanish Fly (Film) Malock Films 2003
  • "Beloved" Prohibition Entertainment 2003
  • "Another Lie" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Between The Tracks" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Free Your Mind" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Rained On Me" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Dangerous Zone" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Shady" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Family Affair" Elektra Records 1993
  • "Shake That Egg" Elektra Records 1993

Vocal Features

  • "Mama's Love" ALantonio VP Records 2008
  • "City Limits" The Rebels Red Ant Music 2006
  • "It's a Reggae Party" Ras Abba T-Groove 2005
  • "Cellular" Arrow VP Records 2005
  • "I Like It" Brukup Lightyear Records 2005
  • "Kulture" Kulture Don VP Records 2005
  • "Free" Phoebe One Parlophone 2003
  • "Fly" Structure Rize Universal Records 2003
  • "Years of The Nine" Professor X Island Records 1992
  • "Reality" Professor X Island Records 1992

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