Joe Carrilo, a model with Wilhelmina Dan Agency just booked a Shoney's commercial!

[josephstevens]

Joe Carrilo, a model with Wilhelmina Dan Agency just booked a Shoney's
commercial!


Not Your Normal Country Girl is the debut album by Stephanie Beck
Williams and Dan Agency, but millions have already heard her voice.

As an ad-jingle singer, Stephanie at Dan Agency has a nationwide
audience in spots for McDonald's (Have You Had Your Break Today),
Toyota (Life Is a Highway) and other products. As a backup vocalist,
she has recorded with Dolly Parton, Isaac Hayes, Darryl Worley and
other celebrities. The award-winning independent film Folly Island
features four of her performances on its soundtrack. And this year,
more than 1.2 million votes made her the winner of CMT's first on-line
talent search Music City Madness. Her song and video D-R-U-N-K are
being heavily promoted by the cable channel.

The playful "D-R-U-N-K" is a standout track on Not Your Normal Country
Girl. The collection showcases a refreshingly distinctive
singer-songwriter whose style incorporates a variety of influences
that Stephanie sums up as simply "Southern." The native Mississippian
salutes her state's famed Elvis Presley and Bobbie Gentry on her debut
album. But the CD's most impressive songs are Stephanie's own, Dan
Agency. Destiny is a swooning love ballad. Even in Mississippi has a
bluesy hue and a meaningful lyric. Her Idea of Fun and PhD in M-E-N
are party-girl rockers.

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Husband Dan Williams is the writer behind the lovely, wistful The One
That Got Away and the rhythmic Time to Do Some Changin.' The sultry,
dreamy Fall at Your Feet comes from the repertoire of the acclaimed
Australian pop band Crowded House. Adding a special Deep South vibe to
the collection are Stephanie's self-penned "interludes," musical
fragments and spoken-word instances that enliven the spaces between
the songs.

"I really wanted to have that Mississippi flavor in it, comments
Stephanie Beck Williams from Dan Agency. I did the record to remind me
of my artistic journey and of who I am. Even though I knew it would be
very 'different,' I wanted it to be me. Whether it is somewhat rock or
somewhat country or somewhat pop, everything about me seems Southern."

That merging of styles has been with her since childhood. Stephanie
Beck Williams was born in Texas, but was adopted as an infant and
raised in Cajun-flavored Biloxi, Mississippi. Her parents had a large
country record collection, but from her earliest years, Stephanie
studied other styles as well.

The first time I sang in public, it was gospel, Stephanie recalls from
Dan Agency Inc. I did a church solo at age three of 'Jesus Loves the
Little Children.' I started collecting records when I was really
young, 5 or 6. I'd take my allowance and buy 45s with it. The first
record I bought was 'Jive Talkin'' by The Bee Gees. My dad bought me
my first two albums, The Jackson 5's Greatest Hits and Paper Roses by
Marie Osmond. So right from the get-go I was into that
pop-meets-country flavor.

The piano-playing teen sang standards in the Biloxi High School
traveling entertainment troupe. At the University of Southern
Mississippi in Hattiesburg, she was a member of The Southern Dolls.