Dream of You by DeDe Wedekind
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@DeDeWMusic
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Monday, April 17, 2017
Check out my Album of the Year- Dream of You Distributed by TuneCore & live on iTunes!
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Have a great week! DeDe:)
www.DeDeWedekind.com
@DeDeWMusic
Youtube.com/1DWedekind
Facebook.com/DeDeWedekind
Have a great week! DeDe:)
www.DeDeWedekind.com
@DeDeWMusic
Youtube.com/1DWedekind
Facebook.com/DeDeWedekind
Sunday, October 9, 2016
OCTOBER NEWS: DeDe Wins at the IMEA's & Is Scheduled on Good Morning Arkansas for Her Latest Song, America United
DeDe Wedekind wins Album of the Year of the Year for her 4th album, "Dream of You" (Feb 2016)
DeDe Wedekind was a winner again for the 3rd year in a row, at the 4th annual International Music & Education Association Awards (IMEA AWARDS), which were held Sat. Oct. 8, 2016 just outside of Nashville, TN.
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| DeDe & Country Artist Karianne Jean both won 2016 awards. |
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| DeDe Wins Album of the Year! |
Website: http://katv.com/
Soundcloud.com/DeDeWedekind |
| Some of this year's IMEA Awards winners after the ceremony! |
"Thanks to my great fans, for all your continued help, encouragement & support so that I can continue to make positive & impactful music!"
-DeDe:)
DeDeWedekind.com
Facebook.com/DeDeWedekind
Twitter: @DeDeWMusic
Thursday, April 7, 2016
DeDe Wedekind Performs NEW Jazz!
Nominated for IMC Album of the Year in 2016, Singer/Songwriter DeDe Wedekind performs her own Jazzy love song arrangements at a Valentine's concert in 2016! To hear and purchase all of DeDe's New Music including her album Clear Skies Ahead (Jazz Standards) & to see all of her Videos visit:
www.DeDe-Music.com & www.YouTube.com/1DWedekind
DeDe's new album, Dream of You (Feb 2016) has 10 nominations for Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year from the Indie Music Channel. The awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on April 24, 2016 at the Grammy Museum!
Thursday, February 4, 2016
DeDe's Music Featured on Pages 30-39 of the February 2016 Indie Music Coalition Magazine!
DeDe: An Artist In her Prime-Ahead of Her Time by Beth Fedornak
At the
October, 2015 International Music & Entertainment Awards (http://www.IMEAawards.com), we had the pleasure of hearing 2014 Two-time Album of the
Year winner & 2015 Song of the Year winner, DeDe Wedekind, perform her Folk
Song of the Year Nominee, “Prime of Life” from her upcoming album Dream
of You. But her Song of the Year
Category win that night was for her Adult Contemporary original, “Stronger”.
What sets
this talented artist apart from others is not only her great vocals, which
garnered her Best Vocalist in March 2014 on SingerUniverse.com, but her unique
& versatile songwriting. DeDe writes
songs that cross many genres of music including: Adult Contemporary, Folk, Pop,
Country-Pop, Rock, Americana, Singer/Songwriter, World Music, Jazz and Inspirational. This was evident when at
the 2014 IMEA Award Show she received 9 nominations in 7 different categories (the
most of any IMEA Artist). 
And indeed
she was a winner: she went to the stage to accept a grand total of 3 IMEA
awards that chilly October Night in Kentucky for: AC Album of the Year for Love & Fairy Tales (7/2013), Holiday
Album of the Year for World of Christmas
(11/2013), and Song of the Year for “Canon
on the Lord’s Prayer”. This tied DeDe with friend and singer/songwriter Matthew
Huff, Country Artist of the Year who also won 3 awards, the most awards won by
any artists at the show. Says DeDe about this honor:
“We
were all rooting for each other, all of us Indie artists who had been hanging in there, writing songs like crazy,
and performing all over the place… in a very tough, sometimes brutal industry.
I’d just joined the IMEA because it sounded like a worthwhile organization for
indie artists-and it is. The rest was about timing: I decided to submit a bunch
of songs from my 2 albums I’d just released in 2013 on a whim-thinking “what
the hec”? I have all these new songs, and maybe these judges will like one of
them? But getting that many nominations,
and that kind of real support and recognition for my music, well, that was only
surpassed by getting to meet and know all of these other great indie artists
from around the world- (struggling!) artists who were a lot like me. It was
truly a watershed moment for my songwriting, and it was a life-changing and
pivotal moment for me and my music career.”
Growing up near Houston, she hails from a long
line of actors, storytellers and musicians on her father's Welsh side. She is one of seven musical children from an
exceptionally creative family. DeDe
herself is a classically-trained singer, pianist and flutist. While she had pursued music on a part-time
basis in her 20’s and early 30’s after a career in marketing, she came to realize
that music was coming back into her life. Only about 7 years ago, DeDe started
singing songs around the house that she’d never heard before, and started having
dreams about music. It was at that moment she realized that her true calling
was to pursue a more active role as a songwriter and musician. She decided to hone her theory, performing
and songwriting by returning to college for additional musical training. With the support of husband, Larry, she
began to pursue music again full-time.
DeDe tells
stories through her music: her original songs are about her feelings, her life,
her personal thoughts, joys, losses, hopes, dreams and experiences. She feels
that she has a calling: a gift for relating her music & melodies
to what we all are experiencing in our real lives. “At first it was really
scary for me to step out on a limb and try to start a new career in a field
where I’m definitely not an expert. But I'm not afraid anymore," says
DeDe. "Not afraid to say the things that I feel need to be said, and to
take a chance with my music. I've found my joy, my purpose, and my
peace."
Her latest album, Dream of You, is unique in that it tells the story of the emotions,
struggles, triumphs and the journey that is DeDe’s life. However, it’s not a blow-by-blow
recounting of each and every major life event, but rather a playbook of dreams,
hopes, and feelings, both positive and negative. Its full of thought-provoking lyrics:
observations about the changes she’s been through, and all the emotions and
relationships along the way that defined the life-shaping moments in her
life. Each song is autobiographical
and details actual feelings and thoughts she had about events and experiences:
songs about her dreams, hopes, disappointments and relationships
that are all a part of what has made her who she is.
Every
listener will be able to relate to DeDe’s dynamic and word-picture filled lyrics,
since her songs tell the story of events that happen to us all. Songs that
encompass the dreams of youth (Dream of
You), the wild times and struggles of growing up & looking for love, such
as we find in her 80’s Bon-Jovi like rock tribute: Leaning on Heaven. We relate
to her searches for acceptance and meaning in life via Prime of Life, and the
rush of sexual attraction and thrill of romantic love in DeDe’s super-sexy, Latin bossa nova, Recipe of Love. Then it all unravels
with her Rolling Stones-esque Sell Me
Out about complete betrayal of trust, heartbreak, and being left all alone.
And in the end- redemption: finding the strength to get through anything with “Stronger”, and the capacity to know
and be able to give true love (Love
Lives On, with Andrew Fromm on
piano, writer of N-Sync’s Millenium Album).
Through the
many challenges and experiences DeDe ‘s faced personally and in her music, she finally
feels equipped to accept herself and her circumstances, understand the real
meaning of love, and what truly matters in life. Important things like: relationships
with family and friends, finding unconditional love (My Unsung Hero), a solid marriage (Today I’ll Marry My Friend), and the realization that she is
comfortable with where her life has lead her.
She has also discovered how to overcome fears and the renewed ability to
believe in yourself and in the one(s) you love.
...read more here:
http://www.joomag.com/magazine/mag/0012248001449129331& Subscribe to the Monthly Indie #Music Coalition Magazine!
Friday, January 22, 2016
WOMEN of SUBSTANCE RADIO PODCASTS: Great New Artists...Great New Music!
Listen to & Download all Podcasts & Hear new music from great female Indie artists on
WOS RADIO Podcasts: http://breenoble.libsyn.com/
WOS RADIO Podcasts: http://breenoble.libsyn.com/
Your Valentine just got an infusion of romance from the music on #Podcast Episode 314 Music By Sometimes Julie Erika Kulnys Ces Indie Tiffany Gow Katie MarieDeborah DeDe Wedekind Bev Barnett & Greg Newlon, Guitar Monica SorensonRick Walker
And thank you Bree Noble & WOS Radio for making me your Featured Artist in February 2016! Listen here and get a FREE download of my Indie Song of the Year "Stronger" from Dream of You (NEW! Album & Single MP3's available Feb 9th, 2016): http://www.wosradio.com/
Also tune in Feb. 1-5 to hear the New Music Show, featuring great new music & another one of my new (rocking!) songs, "Leaning on Heaven", a co-write with Multi-Platinum Writer/Producer, Kevin DeClue: http://www.wosradio.com/new-music/
Thanks for listening to new music from Indie Artists!
-DeDe :) Hear & Purchase music here: www.DeDe-Music.com
Female Artists- Submit your music (& listen) here:
WOS RADIO Website: http://www.wosradio.com/
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Sometimes a (Good) Band Is Hard to Come By....
Or, The Trials & Tribulations of DeDe's Search for a GREAT band-And how has it all panned out? Let's just say it's A Happily-Ever-After Ending:)!
DeDe & the DayDreams perform at a company Christmas Party on Dec. 17th, 2015.
Left to right: Damien Clark, Alan Steinmetz, DeDe & Jim Embry (not pictured: Larry Wedekind)
Over the past 8 months, Texas Singer/Songwriter DeDe and her awesome DayDreams Band have had a whirlwind debut in Houston, and all over the USA! They literally burst onto the Houston music scene with 3 Festivals right out of the gate since their start in mid summer of 2015. In August 2015, they were honored to attend the Cutting Edge Music Conference in New Orleans where DeDe was a Spotlight Artist at the famed New Orleans House of Blues. Then DeDe was chosen to be a Featured Performer in September at the Light at the Lighthouse Inspirational Festival in Los Angeles. Then within less than a month, DeDe & the DayDreams again appeared on the Budweiser Mainstage at the The Houston StreetFest near Navigation in October! About "birthing" a new band DeDe says:
"It's amazing that we have any band at all at this point, we had so much changeover in the beginning. At the first of the year, I'd joined a band and it was mostly jazz. They had another male vocalist who really didn't want a female (vocalist) added, and they weren't really getting any bookings, so I took off, but I took along their amazing drummer, my (now) close friend, and very talented Alan Steinmetz! We must have gone through like 6 guitarists, and 3-4 bass players, but it's always been Alan and me from the first of the year.
Friends tell me that to find good band members who all like each other, like the same music and all get along is really hard and you have to go through a lot of players to find the right combo. But the hardest thing for me to find in my bandmates has been the commitment to practice weekly, learn my original music, and the willingness & flexibility to do the gigs and commit to them -no matter what. That's what was really hard to find until we added Damien Clark on guitar. He not only looks great onstage, but he's toured with some music legends and shared the stage with pros, and he's a real pro himself (and a great guy), all the way. He plays just about anything by ear or with music. And now we have a band, and it's a real winner!"
The band also had many corporate parties and events in November & December, and then DeDe took a solo tour to Panama after Christmas, and over the New Year where she performed 3 sold-out concerts! Talk about not getting a breather- and the band just keeps on playing! A corporate ribbon cutting in the Heights at the end of January, and another invite to be featured on Live From Center Stage TV in Massachusettes, a feature in the Feb. IMC Magazine an Indie music magazine, and the list goes on and on....
Flyer for one of DeDe's shows in Panama
On top of all that, DeDe's furiously working to finalize her new album that's currently been getting a lot of Nashville and radio attention: "Dream of You", finally out in February '16 (overdue because of illness (DeDe's), and a much-needed management/production venue change back to Houston from Nashville).
DeDe's new album cover!
So what's next? Now DeDe's ready to take a break and then tackle her next Big Project: her upcoming Valentine's concert with Soprano Meagan Stapleton at the New Bender Performing Arts Center in Humble (350 seats and brand new on the site of the old Humble High). This concert will feature jazzy standards (many from DeDe's first album Clear Skies Ahead), as well as some more classic styling: songs from Meagan's Soprano and DeDe's Mezzo-Soprano classical repertoire! Talk about a change of pace!
On April 9th, DeDe and her band are performing at the Barefoot in the Park showcase for the New Grand Central Park Housing Community Development in Conroe, location TBA. In May you'll have the chance to catch DeDe & the DayDreams as they perform songs from DeDe's original new album, Dream of You- again, at the Bender Performing Arts Center. Says DeDe: "I'm very happy to be honored to be selected to perform at this beautiful new Center for the Arts right here in Humble near Kingwood where I live. Me and the band are really excited, this will be one of our largest audiences because the center is brand new and it holds 350 people! We are hoping to fill it completely with markeing and promotion help from Richard Mintz and all the great staff at the Humble PAC and City of Humble. I also promote all of my local public shows on social media to my over 100K internet fans, so hopefully we will really get the word out about this great center and all the new shows they are scheduling this spring, summer and fall in their 1st & 2nd seasons!" Read more about this new historic arts venue & the upcoming show schedule at: www.Humblepac.com
As for DeDe, well, she's not taking a break any time soon, with demand for her music and original shows in Panama and other parts of the US and Texas on the rise. Recently they were invited to perform at the New Orleans Mardi Gras Festival, but sadly, due to the loss of a bass player, they had to turn down that particular booking. DeDe's been contacted by a number of great Venues and booking agents all around Houston, and so far has managed to keep herself, and her band, very busy indeed. For bookings, and to hear all DeDe's music and get information about Dede and her Daydreams Band visit: Reverbnation.com & to order her new album, Dream of You, visit www.DeDe-Music.com.
DeDe & husband Larry ring in the new year in Panama at the Rock Restaurant!
Friday, December 11, 2015
My December to Remember Christmastime News...
Hi there,A very merry and joyous Christmastime & a Happy New Year in 2016 to you! Thanks for being my fan, and for purchasing, sharing & listening to my music, and for all your support in 2015! Many exciting things are happening, but above all I wanted to wish you all a truly memorable & blessed Christmas!
Just a few updates:
My New Album "Dream of You"
My New Album "Dream of You"
As many of you know, my album is scheduled to be out very soon. We had a setback because I was ill for over a month, and couldn't sing! But it's back on track and we're almost finished mixing in Nashville, and on to mastering, and then the album will be out-hopefully in time for Valentines! If you want to reserve your signed copy, please feel free to email me or respond to this email with your address and the number you want. I'll hold one (or more) for my email family for just $10 plus $2 shipping each in the Continental US (shipping is for up to 4)!! This is a great deal because it will cost over $15 ea. to get one hardcopy if you order it after release...The songs are beautiful and a little different than my "usual". They're very honest & personal, with a bit of a folk, country-pop edge. I call it Amerifolk Pop-Country. There's also a little Latin jazz and even some rock-n-roll!
I think you'll enjoy the songs, and really relate to the lyrics. BTW- One original Single, "Stronger", already won Song of the Year at the 2015 IMEA Awards in Atanta on Oct. 24th, 2015, & Prime of Life was awarded Top 5 Finalist on Song of the Year.com, and nominated for Song of the Year at the 2015 IMEA awards! This album is actually based on the story of my life. A story all of us can relate to: the dreams of youth, falling in love, aspirations, challenges & regrets, moving on, dealing with changes, and finally: love & acceptance. I sing about romance, the real meaning of love, the importance of family bonds, disappointments & heartbreak, finally growing up! and being happy and content right where you are now.
Please listen to some of the new songs here: www.Reverbnation.com/Deborahwedekind & please let me know what you think of my demos of "Stronger", "Prime of Life", "Recipe of Love" & "Dream of You" ok?
Upcoming Shows
Since we've been working so hard on this album, we only have a handful of shows coming up, but I still wanted you to know about them...Most are private company Christmas parties, but I have a few shows coming soon:
New Years Show...in Boquete, Panama! Stay tuned, I'm sending info to my Latin American/Panamanian friends soon! This show will be much different than my Christmas show at the Rock- more Jazzy and more dance music!
Feb 13, 2016, 7-9pm Valentine's Show at the Bender Performing Arts Center, Humble. Featuring jazzy-pop standards by classical Soprano Megan Stapleton, & Mezzo Soprano DeDe Wedekind :) More show information TBA!
Have a wonderful Christmas and God bless you & your families!
DeDe & Larry (Cookie & Sugar too!) Wedekind :)
DeDe's Official Website: www.DeDe-Music.com Hear samples of DeDe's music and get albums!
Facebook Fan Sites: www.Facebook.com/DeDeWedekind & www.Facebook.com/DeDe
YouTube: www.YouTube.com/1DWedekind
Twitter: @DeDeWMusic
All Songs on Reverbnation: www.reverbnation.com/Deborahwedekind & www.reverbnation.com/DeDeandtheDaydreams
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