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For the past two years, Jodi has toured tirelessly across Canada, building a loyal following on the strength of her two self-released EPs: 2007’s The Acoustic EP and 2009’s Street Lights EP. The word-of-mouth buzz culminated in a 2009 Covenant Award nomination for Inspirational Song of the Year for “Breathing In / Breathing Out”, featured on the Street Lights EP.

The EP’s set the stage for Jodi’s debut LP, Little Smile, which was written over a two year period in writing sessions sandwiched in between tour dates. In spring 2010, Dallas Austin protégé Colin Munroe and Walter Afanasieff protégé Adrian Bradford begun the process of turning the writing demos into fully realized songs. Munroe’s (Lights, Sia, Travis McCoy) eight productions represent the bulk of Little Smile and feature his signature blend of organic and synthetic musical elements, resulting in bright, soaring, crystalline pop songs that showcase Jodi’s vocals. Bradford’s (Meiko, Mat Kearney) four contributions anchor Little Smile with a live-off-the-floor, atmospheric quality, revealing Jodi at her most beautifully vulnerable and natural. Veteran engineers Joe Zook (Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry) and Bryan Cook (Meiko, Sia) collaborated with Munroe and Bradford to mix the album. The resulting LP is – like Jodi herself - disarmingly sincere, honest and completely without pretense. Evoking the fresh-scrubbed, natural vocals of a young Sheryl Crow, Jewel or Chantal Kreviazuk, the intimacy of Jodi’s delivery is a much-needed antidote to the auto-tuned antagonism of female artists currently dominating FM pop radio.

As the release of Little Smile looms near, Jodi is optimistic about how the songs will be received: “I think there is room for pop songs that are genuine and uplifting. That’s what I want to share – as far and wide as possible…” With each song and performance converting more and more music lovers into fans of Jodi King, it’s becoming clear that music, quite simply, is what Jodi was meant to do.