Geffen Gospel Music Recording Artist Spensha Baker Set For Debut Release

Los Angeles, CA - It seems that whenever 15-year-old Geffen Records gospel artist Spensha Baker sings, she commands cross-genre attention with her fresh inspirational sound. Baker's memorable performances, in front of audiences ranging from churches to the White House to a Hollywood star-studded event and our U.S. Troops, have helped to generate a buzz for her highly anticipated debut release, OUTLOUD!, in stores on August 5, 2008 .

Youthful, worshipful and danceable, the 12-track OUTLOUD! is a natural musical extension of Spensha Baker, and contains a mix of musical styles with universal messages of faith, hope and love. Spensha says, “Since OUTLOUD! is my first album, we've got pop and R&B beats, traditional gospel, Praise and Worship and Contemporary Christian sounds.”

OUTLOUD! was produced by a number of the music industry's most talented craftsmen, including Warryn Campbell (Kanye West, Mary Mary), Shep Crawford (Whitney Houston, Heather Headley), Eric Dawkins (Fantasia, BeBe Winans), Tim Miner (Steve Perry, DeLeon Richards) and Jazz Nixon (Kierra “Kiki” Sheard, Darius Rucker). Arranger Mervyn Warren (Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, Vickie Winans, and Michael Buble) lent his skills to Spensha's debut.

The first single and video, “Hallelujah ” (a scintillating cover of the Clark Sisters ' classic), finds Baker heralding “the good news” with an anointed voice and style that cannot be denied . Other stand-outs include the uplifting title track, the urban inspirational “ Love Somebody,” soul-stirring ballads “ Hold On ,” “ Teach Me ” and “ Purpose ” ( co-written by Baker and her mother Marcy Baker) and a praise-and-worship tune “Strong Tower.”

Spensha Baker's musical dream began when Geffen/Interscope Records Chairman, Ron Fair witnessed her incredible vocal talent firsthand, when Baker was a 12-year-old finalist on American Idol precursor Star Search , on which he was a judge. So impressed was Fair that he signed Baker to the record label as its first – and only – gospel recording artist.