June Rochelle on Access Hollywood

Nashville, TN –Urban songstress June Rochelle’s national debut album, Changing Places, will be the featured CD pick of the week on “Access Hollywood” airing on Tuesday, May 23, 2006. The syndicated newsmagazine will also include the project on the CD release ticker tape feature during the program. Seen in over 90% of the country, “Access Hollywood” airs on major market affiliates, including the NBC Universal Television owned stations. It is produced by NBC and distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution. The producers of “Access Hollywood” will also feature Changing Places today as the “New Music Tuesday Pick” on “TV One Access” which presents monthly one-hour specials and daily minute-long entertainment updates. A little more than two years after its national launch, TV One, the entertainment and lifestyle network for African American adults is available in more than 30. 1 million U.S households, making it one of the fastest-growing new networks this decade according to Nielsen estimates. For local listings for “Access Hollywood” and “TV One Access,” viewers can visit the show websites at www.accesshollywood.com/insideaccess/wheretowatch/ and www.tvoneonline.com.

“This is fabulous!” exclaimed June Rochelle when she received the news about the CD features. “I’m so excited - this is beyond anything I could have ever thought possible.”

The CD pick recognitions are just a sampling of the many accolades that have been bestowed upon June Rochelle. Since releasing Changing Places, on April 4th, she has been impacting gospel radio stations across the country with her music. June’s first single, “Use Me Lord,” has climbed Gospel-Spotlight.com's Top 20 Hot Singles chart and reached the Top 40 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart. Proclaimed as the “the melodic Queen of Soul and Inspiration,” by North Carolina DJ Dr. Alvin Jones of WCPQ and WHNC, her work has also received high praise from the Los Angeles Times, Ebony Magazine, The Ron Seggie Show, The Bev Smith Show, Voice of America Radio and the TCT Network, to name a few. The singer/songwriter’s gifts and vocal prowess are brilliantly apparent on Changing Places. “June Rochelle is a soulful songstress that reminds me of the great Anita Baker,” comments Allen Jacobi, President of Pyramid Records, a division of Universal Music Group