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You may now stream and/or download the 5-minute+ audio interview with Ms. Grey (including a snippet of “Final Warning”) within the NPR article by clicking the original link below!

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Neda Ulaby recently interviewed Ms. Grey for NPR’s The Record with Ann Powers and All Things Considered – the audio from the interview will be made available online at 7:00 PM Eastern Time today (December 26). In the meantime you can read an excerpt from Ulaby’s article regarding the interview (including comments from Duncan Sheik) below, and read it in full (with additional comments from Alex Da Kid) by clicking the title.

Skylar Grey – All Things Considered | NPR ::
“….Grey is a new name and a new persona for a young, bruised music industry veteran. Until recently, she was someone named Holly Brook. She started recording childrens’ music professionally with her mother in Wisconsin when she was only six years old.

“I learned a lot singing with my mom,” she says. “It gave me an advantage, I think, as an artist to have that under my belt — three albums by the time I was 15.”

….Brook got signed to a major label when she was still a strong-willed teenager who found herself dumped by Warner Brothers by the time her solo album came out. She supported herself singing backup for musicians like Duncan Sheik, who composed the musical Spring Awakening. He cast her in other musicals in development, including one called Whisper House.

“She doesn’t have this big voice,” Sheik says on the phone from his New York apartment. “It’s actually quite small and quiet. But it’s very perfect and beautiful and her pitch is immaculate.”

….Brook decided she needed to leave the business in order to reinvent herself. She moved to a remote cabin in Oregon. She lived there without heat for a year, she says, chopping wood and foraging.

“I was fearless,” she says firmly. “And it was the first time in my life I ever felt like myself, finally — like nobody else could control me.”….”

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As a special early Christmas present to fans, Ms. Grey has released two preview videos of her performing her original versions of “Coming Home, Part II” and “Words I Never Said” to Rap-Up! The tracks, along with her original version of “Love The Way You Lie” will be made available as a special EP entitled The Buried Sessions of Skylar Grey on January 17, 2012.

Check out the preview videos below, and read the full Rap-Up article regarding the special song cuts by clicking the title.

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In addition to her GRAMMY nominations for “I Need A Doctor”, Ms. Grey is also being recognized with a mention as one of the producers (“Love The Way You Lie, Part II”) on Rihanna’s album LOUD, which is up for Album of the Year!

Click below to check out the full list of GRAMMY nominees.

54th GRAMMYs – Nominees | GRAMMYs.com ::

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VIBE magazine has published its list of the 66 Most Important Songs of 2011, with two of Ms. Grey‘s features making the list! Check out VIBE‘s comments on each respective track below, and click the title to view the entire 8-page feature.

The BIG List: 66 Most Important Hip-Hop Songs of 2011 | VIBE ::
“I Need A Doctor” – Dr. Dre Feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey 

Remember when you actually thought Detox was going to drop? Yeah, us neither. Yet the optimistic ones pointed to this Alex Da Kid-produced record—and it’s budget-breaking music video—as proof of an imminent Dre release.

“Words I Never Said” – Lupe Fiasco Feat. Skylar Grey

After nearly two years of sitting on the shelf, Lupe Fiasco decided to record a single raising 9/11 conspiracies, criticizing the Gaza strip bombings and calling the war on terror “a bunch of bullshit.” Well played, sir.

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Hot Topic has released another video of artist interview featuring Ms. Grey, this time focusing on the holiday season – check out her answer to their question of Worst Christmas Present? at :51 below!

Hot Topic: Holiday Tales w/ Skylar Grey | YouTube ::

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The December/Awards Issue of the digital publication Lemonade Magazine has been posted online, featuring Ms. Grey herself on the cover! Along with being featured on the cover, Ms. Grey’s own video for her song Dance Without You was awarded the 2011 Video of the Year, and Dance Without You was also named the 2011 Song of the Year.

You may read the full issue on the official Lemonade Magazine by clicking below.

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The second issue of Soundsphere Magazine has been released, within which there is a list of musicians’ picks for the Best Tracks of 2011 – Rob Holliday (of bands The Prodigy, Sulpher, and Marilyn Manson) picked Ms. Grey‘s original demo of “Love The Way You Lie” as his choice for the track of the year!

Click below to view the magazine’s full list of the Best Tracks of 2011.

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Idolator has posted a video of Ms. Grey revealing her pick for the Best Album of 2011 – Bon Iver’s self-titled sophomore album. Watch the following video to hear Ms. Grey describe her first hearing the album, as well as what it means to her as a whole, and click below to view the original article on Idolator.

Skylar Grey – Pick for Best Album of 2011 | Idolator ::

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Entertainment Weekly has included the current Skylar Grey single “Invisible“, and its placement in the official trailer for the upcoming Madonna-directed romantic drama film W./E. in its new December Movie Trailers: What’s That Song? feature!

Check out a scan of the feature below (click to view full-size).

Movie Trailers: What’s That Song? | Entertainment Weekly ::

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