Cliff Beach - “Sock it To Me (feat. Honey Larochelle)” [Single] (California Soul Music)
Add Date: 02/18/2020
FCC: Clean
Formats: Modern Rock Specialty, Soul, Top 200, & Triple A
Artist Info: A tribute to the late Aretha Franklin, Cliff Beach's new single, "Sock It to Me", is a duet, featuring guest vocals from Honey LaRochelle, known for her work with The Brand New Heavies.
Beach sings with a voice both plaintive and uplifting. His most recent studio LP, The Gospel According to Cliff Beach was nominated for an Independent Music Award for “Best Funk / Fusion /Jam” and won a Global Music Award win. His recent single “Confident” was awarded Grand Prize at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
A voting member of NARAS, a songwriter and publisher with BMI, and an award-winning member of Toastmasters International, the Berklee-trained singer/songwriter/keyboardist and DC native Beach has created a style of music he coins “Nu-funk”. In his fifteen years as a writer, Beach has won two Silver Medal Global Music Awards, and been nominated for three LA Music Awards, one Hollywood Music in Media Award, and one Independent Music Award.
In 2013 Beach released a solo EP, Who the Funk is Cliff Beach? mastered by good friend Peter Rocks (Of Montreal, Lupe Fiasco). In 2014, Beach headlined “Target Sundays” at the California African American Museum for Black History Month, as well as their “July 4th Extravaganza”, and was a featured musical act at “TEDX Napa Valley”. In the fall of that year he released the Stripped Down and Unplugged” ep. Beach has most recently recorded live for So Far Sounds LA and Dynaudio “Unheard” at NAMM.