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b'Marla Mase\\xa0is a writer/performer/producer/singer/songwriter from New York City. She writes songs, plays, monologues, short stories, erotica, blogs, and poems. She is known for her gutsy, sexy, raw performance style and her intelligent lyrics and is regarded by her peers as a true musical pioneer.\\xa0 Her songs, a mix of world beat, spoken word, funk, r&b, punk, soul, and classic rock-n-roll are infused with GLOBAL SOUL, the signature sound of\\xa0\\xa0Tom\\xe1s Doncker, her guitarist, co-writer\\xa0 and producer . She is backed by his band, the Tom\\xe1s Doncker Band.\\xa0 Marla is also SVP of Marketing/A&R with True Groove Records, a label she runs with Tom\\xe1s Doncker.\\n\\n\\xa0Tom\\xe1s Doncker\\xa0As a prime mover on New York\\u2019s downtown \\u201cNo Wave\\u201d scene in the early 1980s, Tom\\xe1s Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions, Defunkt, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz and many more. Eventually he went international, touring and recording in Japan with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, and producing studio and songwriting sessions with Boosty Collins, Yoko Ono, \\xa0Reggae vocal group The Itals, and\\xa0producer Prince Charles Alexander, to name just a few. Since then, Doncker has continued to work with an A-list of iconic artists including Ivan Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Meshell Ndegeocello, Living Colour lead singer Corey Glover, former P-Funk keyboardist Amp Fiddler,Shamekia Copeland,and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. He also frequently collaborates with legendary Producer/Bassist Bill Laswell, and his ongoing "Power Of The Trinity" project\\xa0was featured on CNN on November 27,2012 (Jimi Hendrix\' birthday).His most recent project is "Big Apple Blues",his 2nd collaboration with Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa.'