THE KONSORTIUM

Stars on the Rise: Mary Castro

Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Hometown: La Verne, CA and West Covina, CA
Body type: 5' 7" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity: Latino / Hispanic
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Children: Someday
Education: Some college
Occupation: Actress/ Model

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Stars on the Rise: Shauna Faith

Shauna-Faith Graham, casually known as Shauna Faith, was in Brooklyn to Jamaican, Scottish, and Indian Parents. Shauna along with her family moved to Piscataway, New Jersey before she was 1-years-old for a better living and education. Throughout Shauna's early life, she participated in numerous activities and recreational sports. She played three major instruments professionally, the piano, flute, and French horn, in Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestras, and traveled with her Church Band to the Caribbean’s, and throughout the New York Metropolitan. She graduated high school on the honor roll, and decided to attend La Salle University to study Communications and Business Administration.

After her second year in college, she decided to model to help pay for school funds. Since then, she has appeared in Essence, Smooth Magazine, Modell's, JC Penny Bellini Shoes, Hype Hair, and many more advertisements, editorials, and magazines. Shauna eventually transferred to Seton Hall University, studying Business Communications and Information Technology, to continue her schooling and to be closer to New York City to continue to work as a model and actress. Her acting career began less than a year ago and she has already completed a commercial for BET, WB's South Beach Style, and MTV. Moreover, she appeared in 7 feature films, including diminutive parts A Talent for Trouble by Marvis Johnson, Spider Man 3 starring Tobe Maguire, and Confessions starring Tamala Jones and Lynn Whitfield. However, her first love is music. Her multi-talents helped her meet various producers, artists, and A&R's to continue her dream as a producer, songwriter, and arranger.

Currently, Shauna started her own business, Alldame Inc., which involves entertainment management, production, and marketing. She just cracked back into music production and is trying to learn every aspect of the music business as she tries to build her resume in music as well as continuing her career as a model/actress.

shaunafaithonline.com
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Stars on the Rise: Kimberly Fisher

Kimberly was born on a cold day in February in Roy, Utah to an Asian mother and an English/American Indian father. After a move to Germany, Anchorage, Alaska became her permanent home. In high school, Kimberly Attended East Anchorage High School where she was involved in cheerleading, dance, Key Club, Z- Club, Anchorage Youth Court, community service, as well as being a beauty queen title holder. Kimberly graduated high school early with a 3.5 GPA and substituted college classes for her last semester. While in Alaska Kimberly enjoyed the great outdoors by camping, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, ice skating, and playing ice hockey…most of the time with her Samoyed Husky, Buddy. Along with Buddy the Fisher clan had a variety of other pets including fish, a parakeet, a turtle, hamsters, guinea pigs, and a rabbit.

Kimberly eventually left Alaska for warmer grounds and settled down in Las Vegas, Nevada where she attended UNLV year round double majoring in psychology and criminal justice. Kimberly retired from pageants in 2001 (with 6 crowns and titles and over 50 awards and trophies) and started modeling part-time. She soon found herself traveling to Los Angeles more and more frequently. Kimberly moved to LA permanently in Feb. of 2000 where she is now a full time model/actress/spokesperson. She is currently studying acting with Robert Carnigie and perfecting her technique and has appeared on such shows as “Strip Mall”, “The X Show”, “Soul Train”, “The Man Show”, starred in independent features “One Last Adventure”, “Messed in the Head” and “Till Death Do Us Part” and hosted for “On the Scene Video Magazine”,” Sundance 2001 Unplugged” “2002 Diversity Awards”, and “Miss Virtual Reality”. Kimberly’s Los Angeles stage Debut came in May 2002 when she starred as Neural Matthews in “The Hollywood Dream”. In print you can find her in several magazines (“Hot Boat”, “Street Customs”, “ESM” “Petite”) calendars (Lingerie Dreams, College Girls of Las Vegas, Erebuni Aerodynamics) and posters. (Erobuni, Sound Source Entertainment)

Kimberly's Site

Film Director: Karlie Keisha Lewis

Karlie Keisha Lewis has shown an affinity for the camera at a young age. Starting her career as a young actor in television and film she has guest starred in over forty movies, commercials and television shows. Though working as an actor, Karlie has always been interested in the making of a film and dreamed of someday becoming a film director. Growing up in the Bronx, she has always had a desire to express her experiences with the world through film so she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career. She attended the program at The Los Angeles Film School while still auditioning for roles as an actor to make ends meet. This program gave her the opportunity to make her first 16mm film Michael’s Walk. Thru hard work and perseverance this film was a success. Karlie is the first African American woman director to graduate from her class. With help from sponsors she went on with her dreams to film Most Wanted, which is based on a true story. Karlie is determined to make it as a film director. Her goal is to bring images and stories to life that you may have seen in a way that has never been presented before.

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Music: Somaya Reece

Somaya Reece's music debut single "mira mi pum pum", has 3 million spins in only 9 weeks.

She is in current collaborations with several platinum selling, billboard charting artists and producers. Most recently, she has been in studio with Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas under produced by Jon Brown, Will I Am and the rest of the team.

The intense presence of Somaya Reece induces a vivacious intellectual experience. Her versatile capabilities in the entertainment field make her one of the most gifted rising talents in the business. Journey into her official website for exclusive updates you wouldn't want to be left out on. It's all free and coming to you very soon. Stay tuned!

Interview on MusicPlusTV
Somaya Reece

How to Blow Your Bonus: A Party Spun by Tila Tequila!

There are as many stories and paths to celebrity as there are celebrities, but in just two years time, Tila Tequila has possibly become THE symbol of the cult of personality that has developed in the digital age. The 25 year old striking, sexy siren has been on the cover and/or featured in numerous magazines - such as Time, Maxim, and Rolling Stone’s “Hot Issue” - for being the most “friended” person on the social networking site MySpace.com. Cast as a phenomenal “insta-star” of sorts, she’s already racked up nearly 2 million dedicated fans, and as the popular men’s magazine Stuff said, is now the “Web’s hottest Mama”.

The phenomenon of Tila Tequila is a story of being an icon of the cultural zeitgeist where the lines of pop culture, personal technology and raw talent intertwine to yield a feisty, magnetic pop music star on the verge.

Tila’s popularity in today’s Web World is unparalleled and has helped earn the sultry Vietnamese ex-model recognition that most people would die for. But the charisma fans see in the glint of her eye, the curve of her hip and the mischief on her lips will soon be echoed as she begins to unleash her music and fulfill a dream she’s always harbored and, more importantly, is equipped to accomplish.

“People don’t know what to expect from me and, in a way, I like that,” Tila says of her music career. “They’re shocked when they hear my music.” A mix of hip-hop style, dance-club energy, and punk rock bravado, Tila’s music is unabashedly fiery, upbeat and, most importantly, fun. “I grew up listening to all types of music and have made a lot of musician friends from all sorts of genres along the way who encouraged me and helped me mold everything I like into my own sound.”

Tila now has her own fashion line, up coming show on VH1, new single with Lil Jon and continues to be a top DJ on the "Lux" party market.

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Stars on the Rise: Jayde

JAYDE's Interests
General Reading, Dancing, Singing, Acting, Tanning.
Music: R&B, Hip hop, Pop, Some rock, Alternative, Neo soul, Jazz.
Movies: Clueless, The last dragon, Drop dead fred, Rosewood.. I never want to forget!!
Books: One day my soul openend up, Iyanla vanzant
Heroes: My mom is my hero

JAYDE's Details
Status: Single
Body type: 5' 9" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity: Black / African descent
Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jayde's Site

Music: Mirella Castellano

Mirella Castellano was born and raised in the UK to Italian, Portuguese parents and grew up in a very musical family, her father having been a singer for all of her life and her sister following in his footsteps. Music became a big part of her life at an early age and this played a part in her discovering her goals.

Mirella has been song writing since the age of 17 and was singing through most of her teen years and early 20’s, finding herself in different bands and groups where she wrote and co-wrote songs and arranged vocals. She developed as a writer/arranger over the years and in July 2003 Mirella was signed by Universal Music Publishing, One of the largest Music publishers in the world, as a top line Songwriter. This proved to be so beneficial for Mirella as it gave her the chance to work with other international writers, and have her a platform in which to showcase her songs.

This was where her journey began, within months of signing her publishing deal; Mirella was fortunate enough to be writing with the famous song writing teams Murlyn and Cosmos (Sony atv) in Sweden where she gained much experience and knowledge. This became something she did on quite a regular basis, writing songs to be put forward for Anna Johnson (Spiderman Soundtrack), and many other European artists.

In amongst these most talented writers, Mirella’s first major project was writing with Liz McClarnon, who was previously part of Europe’s most successful girl group since the Spice Girls, ‘Atomic Kitten’.

She frequently travels between UK and Europe to write with various successful writing houses and has worked with other artists such as Lee Ryan (Blue), Andy Scott Lee, Roberta (X Factor), Ciara (Bellfire), Jordan (Katie Price) one of Europe’s most successful models, writers from Ash Howes and Martin Harrington’s team and other artists/writers signed to Universal Music Publishing in Europe and the USA along the way.

Mirella’s ambitions do not only lie with being a songwriter, she has recently finished her first fiction novel which she is hoping to have published in the near future and has just begun her second. She has been a teacher of Street Dance for the last three years at the distinguished ‘Stanmore College’ in Middlesex, England, and was also invited to Salsa her way to the semi finals of a Salsa competition in Brazil.

In the three years since her signing at Universal, she has made hundreds of contacts both in Europe and the USA and continues to be sent songs from overseas to Co-write and arrange. She currently resides in Los Angeles and is working with artists who are from the USA who are extremely close to securing record deals with major record labels.

Mirella Castellano

Stars on the Rise: Nazanin

Nazanin: Persian exotic beauty enticing the masses with her unique sound while spreading her message of love and peace through the vibrant music she creates.

An ambassador to Canada as Miss World Canada and 1st runner up in the global competition Miss World, Nazanin’s allure is far surpassed by her kind heart. Using the gifts she has been given to make a difference in the world, Nazanin spends any spare moment devoting herself to volunteering her time to several charities. She unceasingly aids areas less fortunate globally including relief work in the Tsunami effected regions.

Born in Tehran, Iran during the turmoil of the country’s Revolution, she was forced to leave every worldly possession behind so her family could flea the fury to freedom. When her father had been jailed and tortured by the Revolutionary Guard, it was the family’s escape to Europe, finally settling in Vancouver British Columbia that saved them from the political persecution. Faced with such oppression so early in life, the revolution impacted her core.

As a young teen, Nazanin immersed herself in knowledge by constantly educating herself in global issues. She became a Royal Canadian Air Cadet and obtained the highest rank of Warrant Officer First Class along with gliders and private pilots licenses. Then, she acquired a double major degree in International Relations and Political Science at UBC in Vancouver, L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and International Study Center at Herstmonceux Castle in England. During university Nazanin paved her way with consistent work as both a model and an actress, along with teaching Global Education through the Red Cross. Nazanin searched for a way to impact the lives of those in need. While Nazanin was happy to reach out to some, she yearned to help more. To have a stronger impact, and to reach the masses she knew she had to have a title of some kind. She entered and won the Miss Canada title and following that she was crowned Miss World first runner up in front of 2.2 billion viewers. Nazanin was the first Persian to win this coveted title in this prevalent charitable pageant; however this came with a price. This honor was received with a large amount of controversy and caused quite a stir in the Iranian community. Nazanin received hate mail from Islamic fundamentalists and at the same time accolades from young women in Iran who supported her goals and looked to her as a role model. It is the Miss World’s motto “beauty with purpose” that drove Nazanin forward in her efforts. So far the organization has raised 250 million dollars for children’s charities across the world.

Through out Nazanin’s life she has found solace in the music that surrounds her. Her mother inundated their family with music flowing constantly in the house from her incredibly eclectic music collection. Her constant world travels and cultural awareness have molded her musical acuity to span a spectrum broader then most are ever exposed to.

Blessed with the voice of angels Nazanin whisks audiences away on a musical journey around the world with her debut CD “Someday” being released worldwide on Bodog Music. Bringing fresh phonic fusion to the forefront she combines a variety of rhythms, beats and melodies from all corners of the globe. Nazanin’s international upbringing and rich history fuel her music, as is evident in her multilingual release. She sings in English, French, Persian and Spanish. This genre-spanning song selection could be classified in many categories with prevalence in: Pop, Dance and World Beat. With music as sexy and sultry as her “Someday”, it is sure to be a success.

Nazanin's debut album "Someday" is scheduled for release in 2006

Nazanin

Stars on the Rise: Suvarchala Narayanan

Suvarchala Narayanan was born to Indian parents, but studied in England she completed her GCSE’S, A’levels in England with very high grades, she was then accepted at Manchester Law School. She entered the Femina Miss India 2001 contest with no modeling experiences at all, and stormed the Miss India panel of judges. She placed in Miss India but was long gone after the contest. However 5 years on this beauty is back with two international Hollywood movies and a role in one of India’s most famous serials. Lets give it up for Suvarchala Narayanan all the way from 2001 when she was 19, 2006 will make the year for the 24 year old ex Miss India semi finalist.

Also Seen In
One Night With The King
Another day (short film)
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb

Shows
Modeled for Calvin Klein, Hemant Trivedi and Payal Singhal
Semi-finalist, Miss India 2001

Skills
Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil and French. Currently learning Urdu.
Dance: Classical Indian, Salsa, Capoeira
Sport: Basketball (County level), Karate (Green Belt), Horse Riding, Swimming
Badminton.
Voice Overs: V.O for ICICI Bank, Deccan Herald. Dubbed for King of Bollywood in
English and Hindi
Accents: British (RP), American, French, Indian
Interests: Writing, Sufi Poetry, Opera, Meditation, Yoga, Politics, Economics, Travel

Suvarchalaa Narayanan