GRAMMY- nominated singer Ayiesha Woods' classic holiday offering Christmas Like This streets today November 10th. The album is available as a physical CD product exclusively through MusiChristian.com with the digital album being available at all other online retailers. Woods will join Natalie Grant on the "Believe" Christmas tour the entire month of December. Dates and tickets can be found at her newly redesigned myspace site www.myspace.com/ayieshawoods
(Nashville, Tenn.) October 23rd, 2009 – With her first-ever holiday offering Christmas Like This releasing November 10th, Ayiesha Woods is now slated to join Natalie Grant on the “Believe” Christmas tour during the month of December.
The "Believe" tour kicks off December 1st in Montgomery, AL and goes on to Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Kansas, with the final show in Missouri on December 18th. Additional shows will be added in the upcoming weeks. Full tour details and ticket information can be found at http://nataliegrant.com/tour-dates/ .
"You know, Christmas time is my favorite time of the year,” exclaims Woods. “To be able to spend some of it on the road with one of my favorite persons in Christian music is nothing less than a great honor and a Christmas present from God to me!"
Woods' Christmas Like This offers up nine holiday classics from the GRAMMY-nominated songstress. The album will be available as a physical CD product exclusively through MusiChristian.com with the digital album being available at all other online retailers. In support of the album, Woods will be making guest appearances on various national TV media outlets including Life Today With James Robison, TBN, and the Daystar network among others.
With her 2006 debut Introducing Ayiesha Woods and 2008 sophomore release Love Like This, Woods has garnered both critical and mass acclaim. The debut earned Woods a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album”, as well as an additional nod in the Dove Awards “New Artist of the Year” category. CCM Magazine also followed Woods’ career as one of three emerging musical talents for 2006 in their “Band Wagon” column, and MTVU.com’s URGE service (www.urge.com) picked Introducing Ayiesha Woods in their 2006 TOP 10 year-end list for Inspirational music. Woods, a favorite on the Women of Faith touring circuit, continues to perform throughout this year and 2010 at festivals and on dates nationwide.
(Nashville, Tenn.) May 27th, 2009 – GRAMMY- nominated singer Ayiesha Woods’ hit song “Happy” will be used in the movie My Life In Ruins, which begins showing in theaters nationwide this June 5th.
My Life in Ruins is romantic comedy film set amongst the ruins of ancient Greece, starring Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and British comedy actor and impressionist Alistair McGowan. The film is about a tour guide whose life takes a personal detour, while her group gets entangled in comic situations among the ruins, with a series of unexpected stops along the way.
Woods’ sophomore release Love Like This streeted last September 9th and has joined the highly merited ranks of her power-packed Gotee Records album Introducing Ayiesha Woods. The debut offering garnered Woods a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album”, as well as nabbing her an additional nod in the Dove Awards “New Artist of the Year” category. CCM Magazine also followed Woods’ career as one of three emerging musical talents for 2006 in their “Band Wagon” column, and MTVU.com’s URGE service (www.urge.com) picked Introducing Ayiesha Woods in their 2006 TOP 10 year-end list for Inspirational music. Woods, a favorite on the Women of Faith touring circuit, continues to perform throughout this year at festivals and on dates nationwide.
(Nashville, Tenn.) April 18th, 2006 – Singer-songwriter Ayiesha Woods will unveil her debut album Introducing Ayiesha Woods (Gotee Records) on June 6th. The album, with production from Chris Stevens (Toby Mac, Shawn McDonald, Sanctus Real), Otto Price (Barlow Girl, GRITS), Ric Robbins (GRITS, Out of Eden), and David Mullen (Nicole Mullen), is already making waves.
This week, the debut single “Happy” is the most added song at Christian AC Radio. “Happy”, which is also impacting at Christian CHR, is currently receiving spins in over 25 markets nationally including the Air 1 Network (currently in 250 markets).
In support of her debut effort, Woods will set out on multiple promotional events this summer. In May, she’ll go on a nationwide promotional tour visiting radio and retail and performing “brown bag” shows along the way. In addition, on June 3rd Woods will open for Toby Mac in Chicago, and on July 15th she’ll be performing on mainstage at the KSBJ Anniversary Concert in Houston. Other tour plans for Woods are currently underway.
It was the nimble lyrical delivery on her independent solo release that found its way onto Jamaican Radio Airwaves where Gotee Executive, Toby McKeehan first heard Woods’ song “Crazy”. After a few inquiries to the Program Director of a radio station in Jamaica, Toby obtained contact information for Ayiesha and called her. Woods was initially caught off guard by the prospect, “I wasn’t home when he first called. I was in disbelief,” said Woods. “I couldn’t believe that he was calling me.”
Woods, who has been musically inclined since childhood, has already seen her share of accolades. In 2004, she became the first female to walk away with the “Producer of the Year” award from the Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards, that year she also received the Marlin Awards’ “New Artist of the Year” and “Contemporary Vocal Performance of the Year (Female)”.
