Renee Olstead Skylark

r Nine days after her seventeenth birthday, HOMETOWN singing sensation Renee Olstead and Houston, TX

her stunning bluesy jazz voice take flight GUEST ARTISTS FEATURED TRACKS with her second major-label album, Chris Botti Skylark Skylark. Backed by esteemed producer/ Robert Randolph When I Fall In Love arranger David Foster (Josh Groban, (featuring Chris Botti) PRODUCERS Michael Bublé, Celine Dion) on strings, David Foster Midnight In Austin Texas piano, horns and often keyboards, (special guest Robert Randolph) Humberto Gatica Olstead stamps her mark on standards SELECTIONS and modern classics and premieres four FILE UNDER Midnight Man originals she co-wrote, including one with Jazz Lover Man Foster. Following her 2004 #1 Jazz self- RADIO FORMAT Stars Fell On Alabama titled album, Olstead soars on Skylark. Adult Contemporary My Baby Just Cares For Me ON THE WEB When I Fall In Love I ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS: The album’s best-known (featuring Chris Botti) songs are “Midnight In Austin Texas,” featuring reneeolstead.com Thanks For The Boogie Ride Robert Randolph, “When I Fall In Love,” with Chris repriserecords.com Botti, and the Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer Hold Me Now standard “Skylark.” STREET DATE Skylark 1/27/09 I TOUR: Renee will be touring in the spring, and Midnight In Austin Texas she’s scheduled to perform with the David Foster & (special guest Robert Randolph) Friends tour April 25 at Foxwoods Casino (CT) and Hit The Road Jack Mandalay Bay (Vegas) on May 9. You’ve Changed I PRESS/MARKETING: Expect an aggressive Ain’t We Got Fun campaign after the holidays and around release week Nothing But The Blame including morning TV, print features and online marketing. Her live performances get huge online DISCOGRAPHY responses (millions of plays on YouTube) including her Renee Olstead (2-48704) version of “What A Wonderful World” live on “Oprah” which is available digitally.

I RECENT SUCCESS: Renee performs “Through The Fire” with David Foster and on the finale “Got To Be Real” on his new CD+DVD, Hit Man: David Foster & Friends (2-511933). In June, “Ain’t We Got Fun” was featured in the feature film and soundtrack Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.

I HISTORY: Since 2002 Olstead has co-starred on the top CBS comedy “Still Standing” and, in 2004, before 8 million viewers, belted out “Summertime.” She has performed at Live 8 and at the Playboy Jazz Festival for two consecutive years, and has opened for B.B. King. CD 2-44247 Olstead sang “Blue Christmas,” co-arranged by the legendary Johnny Mandel, for the 2003 Warner Bros. benefit album Gotta Love The Holidays. She has $13.99 appeared on the big screen in films with Clint Eastwood, 0 9362-44247-2 7 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Pacino, and on TV in several series and specials. Digital Music Download Available