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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">MELODY GARDOT
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">UNVEILS A COMPELLING NEW VIDEO FOR “PREACHERMAN,”</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">INSPIRED BY THE 1955 DEATH OF 14-YEAR-OLD EMMETT TILL AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICA’S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT PAST AND PRESENT</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">New Album ‘<i>Currency of Man’
</i>Out June 2<sup>nd</sup> on Verve/Decca</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">(Photo Credit: Franco Tettamanti)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Internationally acclaimed, platinum-selling, singer, songwriter and musician
<b>Melody Gardot</b> has unveiled the compelling new video for her single <b>“Preacherman,”
</b>adding her voice<b> </b>to the current conversation on race relations and the sanctity of every life. The cinematic black and white video, directed by
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Calum MacDiarmid</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">, is a stirring poetic tribute to the story of
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Emmett Till</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">, a 14-year-old African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in
1955 while visiting his grandmother for supposedly flirting with a white woman. The widespread attention that the vicious murder, and subsequent funeral, acquittal and eventual confession, received was a catalyst for the ensuing Civil Rights Movement.
</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.emmetttilllegacyfoundation.com/">PRESS HERE</a>
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">to watch/embed the video and read more about Emmett on the
<b>Emmett Till Foundation web site. </b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Melody
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">spoke with the
</span></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Wall Street Journal</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">, who premiered the video, to share her point of view on
the connection between</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> Emmett Till
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">and
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/04/22/melody-gardot-draws-on-the-death-of-emmett-till-for-preacherman-video-exclusive/"><b>PRESS HERE</b></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">
for more.</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">YOUTUBE LINK & EMBED CODE:</span></u></b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwoE8XtPFU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwoE8XtPFU</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.75pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Melody will release her new album
<b><i>Currency of Man</i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> on June 2 via Verve/Decca. It is a masterful patchwork of jazz, blues and R&B woven together with Melody’s unmistakable voice and her shrewd observations on human relations and social issues.
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Pre-order<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Currency of Man</i><span class="apple-converted-space">:
</span>Standard edition:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfMan">iTunes</a><span style="color:black">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfManAmzSd">Amazon</a><span style="color:black">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfManGPsd">Google
Play</a><span style="color:black"> // Deluxe edition:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfMan">iTunes</a><span style="color:black">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfManAmz">Amazon</a><span style="color:black">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smarturl.it/CurrencyOfManGP">Google
Play</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">For more on Melody Gardot, contact:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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