Name: Malala by Allison2020
Duration: 4 min 18 s
Description: ‘Malala’ is an emotionally charged tribute to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, featuring world inspired instrumentation and an electronic lounge vibe.

Digital Droo here: I saw a clip of Allison bustin' moves in her dance class and thought I'd whip up a quick retro dance remix of Comeback. If you don't know what Comeback is, well, you're gonna have to go to www.Allison2020.com to find out!

Comeback (90's Techno Remix by Digital Droo) Clip

Hello, World! I couldn't be more humped–that's right; hyped AND pumped–to share my very first song, COMEBACK (Featuring Digital Droo @digitaldroo)! It is available now for your listening and downloading pleasure.

Comeback

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Allison | Comeback

Getting Ready To Be Lonely is a Doug Midgley special - a song my dad wrote and left incomplete when he passed away, so it was never released. Upon discovering the song on an old cassette, I began to "collaborate" with him to write the remaining lyrics and develop its musical arrangement. With the help of some talented studio musicians and Digital Droo's epic production skills, I am proud to announce Getting Ready To Be Lonely as my second single release!

GR2BL | Single

Getting Ready To Be Lonely

Tiaday Ball is a dynamic singer-songwriter whose vocal and musical range defies classification, ambient on some tracks, aggressive and empowering on others. As a soloist, she blends a distinctly clear and pristine sound with smooth instrumentation—stretching the realms of pop, hip hop, and R&B. Her debut single Favors fuses rhythmic with melodious and almost atmospheric patterns layered with sophisticated lyrics. 
Concurrent to her music career, Tiaday pursued her passion of music at the Los Angeles College of Music in Pasadena. Shortly after, she shared the stage with members of The World Over, a breakthrough genre-blending band, for which she has been recognized by Alternative Press as one of their Top 100 Female Vocalists of 2017. As part of The World Over, she released three EPs including Rampart District (2014), Mountains with Siegfried Meir (2016), and Ventifact (2017). In 2016, the band also joined Otep’s Resistence tour. 
Tiaday’s songwriting influences have spanned Catfish & The Bottlemen for their raw emotions and honesty to Post Malone and Now, Now. While growing up in picturesque Waimea, Hawai'i, she always found the ability to wander someplace remote to evoke creative inspiration. Today she’s known to jot ideas down quickly while adhering to tight production schedules, tuning into rising charts to get her head in the game.
A fifth generation singer-songwriter, Tiaday was immersed in music from a young age, gleaning insight from not only her great-grandfather (co-founder of ASCAP), but also her grandfather (founder of Ernie Ball guitars, Slinky guitar strings, and Music Man) and her father, Sherwood Ball, who’s toured with the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Eddie Van Halen. When asked about the best creative advice she was given, she’ll tell you: “Whatever you do in life, do it 110%” from her grandfather. 
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Good To You - single

Good To You

GOOD TO YOU

I Feel The Air

Fusing modern pop with effusive orchestration, Hummingbird is a sanguine rhapsody filled with heart, hope, symbolism, and the power to transport through a broad spectrum of emotions and time. 

Writing Hummingbird was a cathartic response to the loss of Allison's father, Doug Midgley. His death had been preceded by vocal chord paralysis, which reduced the talented singer-songwriter’s voice to a breathy whisper for the final years of his life. The treasured guitar he left behind, a Gibson Hummingbird, became a symbol through which Allison could feel his love. Unable to play the guitar herself when the lyrics were written, this song evolved out of Allison's earnest wish to carry out the musical legacy of her beloved dad. The dark and mournful words took on a more optimistic tone when Andrew Tokuda, a.k.a. Digital Droo, began building and arranging the song 22 years later. Andrew constructed the song in quasi-movements to portray the evolution of grief to remembrance and depict the passing of time. Hummingbird was officially released on December’s Fourth Day; the 23rd anniversary of Doug Midgley’s passing. 

A note from Andrew Tokuda, the producer: I originally approached this song from a mixer's perspective–to improve the sonic quality of the provided tracks. Really mundane, technical stuff. While working with the song, however, the lyrics really hit home, and inspired me to write and arrange a whole new ending–one that conveyed a feeling of acceptance, hope, and a reminder to LIVE one's life as our lost loved ones would want us to live. What started out as a service-for-a-client became a passion project, and I'm proud of what the song has become.

Hummingbird

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"Since We Broke Up," is a song my dad, Doug Midgley, wrote. I heard it for the first time on an old cassette when I was just a teen and was devastated when the player ate the tape before it finished playing the song. Luckily, I was able to find a place that could somehow digitize the content despite the fact that I handed them a wadded up bundle of cassette string. 
I was so relieved when I played this song in it's entirety for the first time on a CD player. 
Years and years later -maybe 12 years- I received a random text from Digital Droo asking how I felt about Force M.D.'s "Tender Love." I told him I thought it would be a blast to work on a song with that kind of throwback vibe and sent him an MP3 of my dad's "Since We Broke Up," thinking it might be fitting. I was pleasantly surprised when, mere hours later, Droo sent me an instrumental marriage of the two songs. 
Together, Digital Droo and I shattered our personal songwriting records. We had the entire song written, arranged, performed, mixed and mastered in a matter of weeks. It is amazing to think that a song that must be 30+ years in the making only took us a couple of weeks to conceive of and complete - as though it was written in the stars.

Since We Broke Up

Rouzy

Life is short

‘Malala’ is an emotionally charged tribute to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, featuring world inspired instrumentation and an electronic lounge vibe.

Single

Malala

Endless Happiness

Dance Me To The End Of Love

"If you’re a blues, soul, rock, country, jazz or folk singer fan, Allison2020 has you covered. She is an extremely versatile singer with a rich resonating voice capable of covering an enormous range – from the lowest lows, to the highest soaring highs... If you don’t feel anything when you listen to her every bit of energy on the gritty rock backdrop of “2020”, then you don’t have a heartbeat."
-Tuned Loud, 2019

Malala

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