Join Game Savvy Latenight host Andre Savage as he interviews YASU and she performs her number one single “Heartbeat”,  live with The Jam band! Toledo viewers can see the show at 1:00 am following Saturday Night Live on NBC 24. If you miss the show or are not local, you can view it online @ www.gamesavvy.tv

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YASU appears 4.17.10 singing “Maybe, Because”. Please Tune In. Visit www.gamesavvy.tv for more details and information on past and upcoming shows!

INDIE LUV: Yasu Time: July 10, 2008 at 11pm to July 11, 2008 at 12am
Location: www.blogtalkradio.com/wow
Organized By: W.O.W Radio

Event Description:
A showcase of the most remarkable independent phenoms of Today & Tomorrow. This phenomenal showcase includes music and interviews. Yasu will be the Featured artist of the Nite!

Megan Yasuhiko Marie Smith, aka YASU, is no stranger to the Toledo, Ohio music scene. Her warm stage presence and angelic voice is a staple of the Glass City’s gospel circuit. for more than 15 years.

However, when YASU finally decided to put together her debut album, The Imitation of Life, she chose to forgo the traditional gospel music formula.

”This album was not meant to preach but to reach beyond traditional methods.” Yasu explains. ”Everything I have written was to help people. The album helped me first, to understand certain circumstances and to break through the wounds and misunderstandings of life.”

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About 100 guests gathered Uptown at The Truth Art Gallery and Event Center to experience The Imitation of Life for the first time. Plenty of smiles, well wishers and music lovers greeted one another in celebration of a great accomplishment in the Toledo Community.DJ M.P.R.E.S.S, also representing Soulbeat, played the best in Neo Soul while Yusuf Lateef and UGE’s Adonis took photos. Imani “The Hype” Lateef hosted the event in his own unique way, giving accolades, moving the crowd and keeping them at the edge of their seats.Everyone waited patiently for the short live set as Yasu, singers Maurice Williams, Leonard Wilson and Chele Parker and musicians, J’Cole, Gavin Harvey, Akeem Coker and Jazmund Lyons handled the instruments.It was a great night for networking, supporting, showing love and experiencing Yasu’s debut album both on the turntable and in person.
In attendance were The Imitation of Life Producers, Mark Smaw, Jr., Chalie Numbas, Symonphoenix, J’Cole, Gavino, and Barry G. Yasu gave thanks for the gifts she received by meeting and working with these great producers, engineers, artists and writers. She looks forward to the next project already in progress.Video Production by Project360 Studios.

YASU RADIO X Doww Jones, T.Roe (WXUT)!

American Idol is back for another season, and so is Toledo Idol.

The Glass City has a wealth of musical talent from all genres of music – be it from its roots in jazz to R and B and hip-hop to local indie and acoustic folk groups.

FOX Toledo’s Allison Brown gives you an inside look of what the Glass City has in hidden musical talents, bands, singers and songwriters who are making it big or are just on the cusp of inking their first contract with a major label.

This Tuesday on Toledo Idol (2.26.08), YASU will be the featured artist. Residents can tune into Fox 36 or 12 on cable, at 4 and 10 pm to see the interview and a sneak preview of her single, “Be Myself”.

Filmed on location at Project360 Studios. Allison Brown and Yasu sat down and discussed the upcoming album, The Imitation of Life.

Working with local producers, OPM Music Werx, JCole and Project360 Studios, Barry G of Put it Down Productions,Gavin Harvey and Mark Smaw,Jr. YASU has recorded a very conscious album with songs that will stay on the mind, deal with the heart, illuminate life problems and reveal solutions.

Manager Imani Lateef has been busy on the scene preparing for the release as well. Heading up the art department, he is the man behind the designs for the album and all the handbills and other Yasu Embassy Publications.

Local supporters will have an opportunity to share in the release of Yasu’s album debut in just under one month. Keep checking the calendar to find out when and where.

The Imitation of Life

3.20.08