Talent: Singer, Writer
Single: "Never Be Me" featuring Rick Ross
Label: Warner Brothers
Contact: www.myspace.com/bellachicks

Where are each of you girls from?

Danah: I was born and raised in Chicago but I’ve lived in Atlanta for 10 years now but my family is still in Chicago. 

Kayla: I was born in Tennessee.  I kind of moved around a lot to Connecticut, California, Georgia, Alabama and now I’m back in Georgia.   

Shannon: I was born and raised in Washington D.C.  I’ve been in Georgia for about 4 years now.

How did you guys end up forming the group?

Kayla:  Actually we were all in the studio working on solo projects and we all knew Chris Hicks who is head of Beatfactory and also an A&R at Warner Brothers.  He introduced us and wanted to know if we were interested in forming a group.  We were at least willing to get into the studio and work together.  I think what solidified it was the fact that we got in the studio and came up with a lot of good stuff, so everything pretty much meshed and that’s how we started. 

How did you guys come up with the name Bella?

Danah came up with the name.

Danah: Once I meet the girls and really got to know them and vibe and after our first argument, I was like oh yea Bella.  We have to go through things as sisters just to know that we’re able to work through anything.  Bella means beautiful in Italian.  Once I meet the girls, everybody had their on little vibe and Bella sounded really sexy.

Are you guys pushing the "Never Be Me" track featuring Rick Ross or the "Caught Up" song with Jody Breeze?

“Never Be Me”

There was a video that was shoot recently that had you guys and Jody Breeze in it.  Was that a Bella video or a Jody Breeze video shoot?

That was a video for his album.  Jody calls himself Bell Breeze.  We love Jody.  Big shout out to Jody. 

When is the album set to release?

Danah:  We had a couple of dates but we don’t know the expect date so we don’t want to say the wrong date. 

Kayla:  We are going for ads on August 8^th.

Danah: So the single should be in rotation August 8^th.

How did you guys end up doing a mixtape with Don Cannon of the Aphilliates when he usually only host rap mixtapes.?

That’s our pooh pooh Cannon.  (laugh)

Kayla:  Don is like a close friend of ours.  He loves our music and he thinks we’re dope so he actually brought the idea to us.  He was like he would love to do it with us and we named it The First Boss Baby Edition

Shannon: It wasn’t hard to do the mix tape because I rap.  It was fun to bridge the two together.  We also have a fusion going on with our music and it was hot to do a mixtape.

Danah: We are the first R&B girl group to do a mix tape.  This mixtape is our second mixtape.  Our first mix tape was with J-Nice and the Hittmen DJs so actually this is our second mixtape but kind of like our first official one.  All the songs on this mixtape are original songs. We wanted to set ourselves as the first R&B group to do a mixtape and now everyone wants to do a mix tape. 

Kayla: This is our mini album.  We put out an album before the actually album has come out.  We did all our interludes, arranged all our songs, and put the flow to it with the help of Cannon.  

Who are some of the producers that you guys have worked with you?               

Kayla: We have Bryan Cox, Jazza, 1500, Keith, Flash, Swizz Beatz, Corna Boyz, Teddy Bishop, and Kendrick Dean.

Do you girls have a lot of people maybe comparing you to a TLC since you have two singers and a rapper in the group and if so, how does it feel?

Shannon: It’s a blessing to be compared to TLC and we will also be compared to them because of the structure.  But we have an edge because we are a lot sexier.

Danah: We’re a lot sexier.  We’re real grown and sexy on this album.  TLC were more pop then anything and we’re staying more to our R&B roots.  Shannon raps real sexy and sometimes she can be real gutta and sometimes she can be real cool.  She is like a chameleon; she can do whatever so I think that opens the door for a lot of things.  We can do all types of music. 

Kayla:  Because of Shannon we even rap/sing a little and she brings different stuff in us.  The hip hop and r&b thing is so fuse together.  It’s a whole new thing.  It can’t be compared to nothing.  Another thing that we do that TLC didn’t do is that we write all our own stuff, we arrange it, and we sing it. 

Shannon: We also learned to use the equipment.  Most of this mixtape we recorded ourself. 

How did you hook up with B.Cox?

Danah: We were introduced to Bryan through Chris actually.  B.Cox was working over at Doppler Studios and Chris said that he wanted us to get in and work with Bryan.  We did some tracks and they came out really hot and we really like working with him.  Plus Chris and Bryan have a company called Beatfactory. 

Everyone knows that the production team over at Beatfactory is one of the hottest production teams in the game right now.. Do guys have feel that now they are being exposed more to magazines and television that  more pressure is on your shoulders?

Kayla: I say NO.. We bring our best to the table every time before all of this we were doing what we do. We give our 100% everyday.  It’s no more pressure then everyone else.