KRISTINIA DeBARGE JOINS BRITNEY’S ‘CIRCUS TOUR’
 
20-CITY NO. AMERICAN TOUR LEG – AUGUST 20th THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27th
 
Kristinia’s “Goodbye” debut single co-produced by Babyface and The Pentagon, gathers major radio airplay and 500,000 sales – Nivea campaign TV spots run through July
 
EXPOSED debut album on new SodaPop/Island set for July 28th release; second single "Future Love" impacts radio July 20th 
 
 
            (July 9, 2009 – New York, NY)  The budding career of 19-year old star Kristinia DeBarge is off to an explosive start with “Goodbye,” her first single from her debut release EXPOSED, out July 28th.  Now Kristinia takes a giant step forward with the announcement that she will be joining the third leg of Britney Spears’ The Circus Tour, named “the highest-grossing tour of 2009 so far” by Billboard. The Circus Tour’s return round of North American dates will hit 20 cities beginning August 20-21st in Hamilton and Ottawa, Ontario, respectively, concluding September 26-27th at Mandalay Bay Events in Las Vegas.
 
            “Joining Britney Spears for her Circus tour will be an amazing and surreal experience for me,” said Kristinia.  “I have been dreaming of an opportunity like this forever, and can’t wait.”
 
            Kristinia’s career got off to an impressive start with the April release of “Goodbye.” “Goodbye” won immediate adds in major market radio stations across the country and is currently at #13 on the Pop Radio airplay chart.  The track has sold more than 500,000 units to date, and broke inside the Top 10 on the iTunes chart. Kristinia performed the single twice thus far on national television: on So You Think You Can Dance (FOX) on June 18th and on Live With Regis and Kelly (ABC) on June 30th. The next single is “Future Love,” written by Ryan Tedder (Jennifer Hudson, Natasha Bedingfield), which impacts radio on July 20th.
 
            “Goodbye” was quickly licensed by Nivea as the theme song for their latest network TV campaign, with 15 second spots running through mid-July.  The video shoot in Los Angeles captured the song’s sexy fun feel, and the clip has been added at MTV, FUSE, and The N (Nickelodeon’s 24-hour network for teens).  “Goodbye” was co-produced by Babyface and The Pentagon.  Babyface went on to write and produce many of the tracks on EXPOSED.
 
            Kristinia DeBarge carries on the tradition of her father James DeBarge, keyboardist and founding member of beloved Motown ’80s group DeBarge.  Kristinia knew she wanted to be a singer at age three, but didn’t reveal her wishes to her family until she was twelve.  At that point her father took Kristinia into the recording studio and tested her commitment on “How I Feel Inside,” a duet.  “Our session ended at 4 a.m.,” Kristinia recalls, “and my dad asked me after all those hours and after all that work if I still wanted to do this.  I answered yes, and that’s how he knew I was serious about being a singer.”  Two years later at age 14, Kristinia met Babyface and began a five-year association that led to her signing with SodaPop the day before she reached age 19.
 
SodaPop Music is a full-scale label start-up for Babyface, one of his first since his LaFace Records (home of Toni Braxton, OutKast, TLC, and Usher), the wildly successful label co-founded in 1989 by Babyface and Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid, who today is Chairman, Island Def Jam Music Group.   Also, co-founder Jeff Burroughs heads Sodapop Music after serving in senior executive positions over the past decade at RCA Music Group and as Executive Vice President of P. Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment.
 
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THE CIRCUS TOUR
STARRING BRITNEY SPEARS WITH KRISTINIA DeBARGE
 
Date                      City                             Venue                                    
Aug.    20              Hamilton, Ont.            Copps Coliseum
            21              Ottawa, Ont.               Scotiabank Place
            24-25         New York, NY           Madison Square Garden
            29              Boston, MA                TD Banknorth Garden
            30              Philadelphia, PA         Wachovia Center
 
Sept.    1                Orlando, FL                Amway Arena
            2                Miami, FL                   AA Arena
            4                Atlanta, GA                Philips Arena
            5                Greensboro, NC          Greensboro Coliseum
            8                Detroit, MI                  The Palace of Auburn Hills
            9                Chicago, IL                 Allstate Arena
            11              Des Moines, IA           Wells Fargo Arena
            12              Grand Forks, ND        Alerus Center
            15              Tulsa, OK                    BOK Center
            16              Houston, TX               Toyota Center
            18              Dallas, TX                   American Airlines Center
            19              Bossier City, LA         CenturyTel Center
            21              El Paso, TX                 Don Haskins Center
            23              Los Angeles, CA        Staples Center
            26- 27        Las Vegas, NV           Mandalay Bay Events Center