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Andrea Styles (born January, 2 1983) is an American R&B, hiphop soulsinger , songwriter, and musical arranger.

Styles grew up an middle child in the North Albany neighborhood of Albany, New York and was raised by her mother, Andrea Campbell, and her father John Campbell. Andrea Styles grew up in church sining in the choir since she was 4 years old. Coming from a very musical family Ms Styles was bound to be musicaly influenced. “I always remember every Saturday morning waking up to all kinds of music, from Earth Wind and Fire, Rick James, to Gerald Levert and Lisa Fisher while my mother cleaned the house”. Styles attended Albany High School, and In high school where Ms Styles was well know for singing is where her skills as a songwriter flourished. At school in her junior year she participated in the talent show singing “Tyrone” by Erkah Badu and won first place. She also starred in the school play “ Dream Girls” playing the leading role as Effie White.

It has always been her dream to be an entertainer, but coming from such a small city Ms. Styles felt that the musical outlets were limited and she needed to pursue a more obvious carrer. After graduating from high school Andrea attended Hudson Valley Community College while simultaneously working two jobs. She studied early childhood education for two years and had planned on becoming a teacher, but after spending time as a teacher's aide, Styles became disillusioned with the teaching profession and dropped out of school. That same year which was 2001, her mother passed away after fighting a long illness. The death of her mother put Ms. Styles in a whole different state of mind. She felt that life was just to short to put off on things in life that you really wanna do. She got back to work. She starting working with producers such as Magic from ADC Records, and producers Dre and ANT from Between Brothers Productions. Createing a master piece, Ms Styles has over 400 songs to date that she has wrote. Her first album called “ The Way I Feel” Is slated for release winter 2007. She can also be heard singing on Ace Gifted’s album where she wrote the chorus for his leading single ‘Happy Place’. She is a talent to be on the look out for. She’s been quoted saying “ I wish to bring to you my music not by force but as a consequence of my own evolution. Andrea Styles Forever”