Danielia Cotton
Danielia Cotton's sound is an eclectic mix of the music that shaped her — from the gospel and jazz/blues of her mother & aunts, to the rock and R&B legends that inspired her.
“Cheap High”
Danielia Cotton’s childhood was spent on the Sourland Mountain in Hopewell, NJ. She is music legacy. Her mother and aunts were all professional vocalists and music was in her blood. Cotton started performing in her teens. Early on she began veering from the gospel and jazz/blues of her mother and aunts finding greater allure in rock legends like AC/DC, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, and Todd Rundgren, and soul and R&B royalty like Stevie Wonder and Donnie Hathaway. Cotton began crafting her own sound; an eclectic mix of the stuff that shaped her and the stuff that called her. Cotton’s magic is born of her ability to inhabit a song, to dwell in its rhythms and melodies, to live with the intricacies of its lyrical structure, and to emerge with an articulate proclamation of personal and social truths.
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