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The daughter of jazz chanteuse Ann Marie Schofield and the late jazz pianist
Walter Davis, Jr., Alana Davis made her own stand as a singer and songwriter.
Born and raised in New York's Greenwich Village, Davis learned to play the
guitar as a youngster. Music remained an avocation, however, until her late-teens.
Although she began writing songs at the age of eighteen, Davis didn't turn
to music as a career until briefly attending Mohawk Valley Community College
in Utica, New York. Leaving school to devote her full attention to music,
Davis recorded a demo tapes of her original tunes. Signed by Elektra, she
released her first single, a remake of Ani DiFranco's "32 Flavors", and it
reached the top forty of Billboard's "Hot 100" in early 1998.
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The single's success also led to an invitation to participate in the Lilith
Fair. But Davis and Elektra disagreed about the direction of her career.
While the label hoped for a straightforward R&B sound, Davis was more
interested in fusing her rich mix of influences. Her 2001 sophomore effort
Fortune Cookies was powerful, original, and unique; it also went un-promoted,
and drove a wedge between she and the label. Striking out on her own, Davis
formed Tigress Records imprint to release her third album, 2005's critically-acclaimed
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