Genre: Other, Pop/Rock
Members: Donnie (vocals), Ja'Marc (vocals), J.D. (vocals), Mizzie (vocals)
For fans of: Spice Girls, 98 degrees, Worldwide Message Tribe
Label: Forefront Records

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A vocal group has never displayed such unity and diversity as the members in Raze. Raze, comprised of members Ja'Marc, Mizzie, Donnie, and JD, is a power pop group that offers positive solutions to the challenging issues facing today's youth culture.

The group established a unique fan base through touring middle and junior high schools in the U.S. and Europe for over a year before their debut EP on Forefront, That's The Way, was released late last year. And now, after the #1 single and video "Always & Forever," a stamp of approval from Billboard magazine predicting mass consumer appeal, and Christian Retailing's claim that the group "fits comfortably in the speakers alongside any mainstream pop act," Raze is set to surpass all expectations with the release of their first album, Power. Following God's call has led Raze to expand their musical palate. The group's vocal strengths shine bright on songs like "Place In My Heart," "My Everything," and "Always & Forever" that brim with the crystalline pop influences of current bands like Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and B*Witched. "UBU" takes on R&B's current direction, and fans who first loved the group's energetic sound will be thrilled by the joy in the Spirit embodied on "All Around the World," "Say The Word," and "Brighter Day."

Naturally, since the group performs before school audiences of various ethnic, family, and socio-economic situations, a diversity of musical styles and personal backgrounds suits Raze very well. It's an aspect of the group that is noticed first in the characteristic differences between Ja'Marc, Mizzie, JD, and Donnie themselves.

Ja'Marc started singing on stage at age five in his native Detroit, where he first remembers absorbing the sounds of gospel and soul. "I started dancing when I was 13, around the time of MC Hammer. By the time I was 15, I began to teach hip-hop dance at my mom's community theatre in Tulsa, where we had moved a few years earlier."

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