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MULTI-MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT ENHANCED CD TARGETED TO TWEENS
“ANNI ZOLA – MY STORY”
FEATURES HIP VIRTUAL TEENAGE POP STAR
VIGILANT ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CAUSES

“Share My Dream” Single Has Pre-Release Exclusive On iTunes With National CD Release On June 29

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 20, 2010 -- A multi-media entertainment platform, Anni Zola – My Story is an enhanced CD incorporating four songs interwoven with three short stories (in audiobook format), bonus videos and jpeg images. Generation Z, LLC has just released the single Share My Dream exclusively on iTunes (http://tr.im/K1ss). Anni Zola – My Story will be released nationally on June 29 at amazon.com and major retailers nationwide for $15.00. The ECD and previews of its songs and audiobooks content are available now at annizola.com.

Targeted to 9-to 15-year-old girls and boys, the ECD features Anni Zola, a 14-year-old virtual idol/adventurer, who sings, dances, talks about her dreams and encourages her peers to live a meaningful life. Consumers will like Anni Zola for its anime-influenced art form, pop music with clean lyrics and its various social media platforms that enable user interaction and participation.  A Creature Creation Challenge was created by the Anni Zola brand in which participants were asked to submit entries for an art and music challenge. The works of art were incorporated in Anni Zola’s ECD and website, Anni Zola: Awesome Kids For An Awesome World. An online community is being developed at annizola.com/community. 

Anni Zola, which means “beautiful earth,” is a teenager who blogs and tweets from the fictional planet Orfea, a green and peaceful planet located in the corner of the vast Yoomee galaxy.  With her own outlook on life, dreams and inspirations to “be anything you want to be,” Anni Zola cares about the environment, keeping the planet safe, and other social issues.  Kids will relate to Anni Zola as they’ve been educated at home and school about saving our planet, volunteering for causes, and being more responsible and understanding of others. Anni Zola’s dream is to build an ideal world, thus the ECD is appropriately called Anni Zola - My Story.

Anni Zola - My Story was a labor of love for co-creators Zuriani Zonneveld and Bonni Rambatan. The concept for the creation of the character began in February 2009. The video/animation production for the single and music video Share My Dream began April 2009 and was completed eight months later. The ECD became an international production with tracks completed in Oslo, Norway and Los Angeles, United States. The project enlisted an impressive list of contributors. Rapper and singer Maxso contributed rap lyrics and lent his voice to the track I Trust Myself. The ECD was mastered by Jan Fairchild, who is a two-time Grammy award-winner and is considered one of the premier recording/mixing engineers in Los Angeles. Fairchild has worked with Gwen Stefani, Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, John Legend and Mos Def, among others.

Carol Hatchett, choreographer for the music video Share My Dream, is world-renowned for her amazing showmanship. Hatchett choreographed music videos starring Snoop Dogg and Will Smith, and tours headlined by Tina Turner, Beach Boys, Bette Midler and David Lee Roth. Anni Zola co-creator, Zuriani Zonneveld, is an award-winning singer/songwriter, who co-wrote, co-produced and sang lead vocal on all the tracks. She was a contributor to a Grammy winning project, Keb’Mo’s 2005 Contemporary Blues album “Keep It Simple.” Her daughter, Jasmine, a 12-year-old, lent her voice to the audio narration and was the inspiration to the track Come On Out And Play. 

BONUS FEATURES
• Share My Dream (music video)
• Making of Share My Dream (animatics video)
• Anni Zola car model (model video)
• Anni Zola production images
• Creature Creation Challenge top submissions
• Anni Zola wallpapers & 2010 calendars

About Generation Z
Co-founded by Zuriani Zonneveld and Bonni Rambatan in 2009, its mission is to inspire 9-year-old children and older to get involved in social and environmental issues both locally and globally. The company’s first project, Anni Zola, is a virtual teenage pop idol, who motivates her peers to use creativity in raising awareness about our planet. Zuriani Zonneveld is a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter, mother and activist. Her vision is to empower children throughout the world to speak up and make the world a better place for future generations. Bonni Rambatan is a designer, writer and cultural analyst based in Indonesia. An enthusiast of digital culture and the open web, his passion is building critical communities that map out new possibilities towards a better future.

Anni Zola -- My Story
Street Date: June 29, 2010
Genre: Enhanced CD music/audiobook/video/jpeg images
Price: $15.00
Running Time: 45 minutes
CD/Art: Available Upon Request
Executive Producer: Zuriani Zonneveld
Distributor: Generation Z, LLC

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Eva Marie Damore
Damore Public Relations / (626) 799-2026 / em@damorepr.com

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