Who is Yelitza Smith?

Who is this Yelitza Smith?
This is one the most frequent question I received since I launched my new website last week. Who is on the 2nd music track of your website? What is that song?

Yelitza Smith is a very talented R&B Soul artist from Birmingham that I had the pleasure to meet, photograph and hang out with on a recent trip to Spain.. If you get the opportunity to meet with her, you too would also fall in love with her personality. I chose this particular song;
“ happy” because it is just that “happy” I often play it when I post process my photography and felt that it would fit with the ambiance of my new website.

If you want to hear more about Yelitza and get on her mailing list for updates on her new album
Website: http://www.yelitza.co.uk/
Check her out on myspace;
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=98188589
.. she is also one of my facebook friend add her:)

About my new website … I was not expecting so much love and support from you. I pulled out a web statistics report last night and had over 1300+ unique visitors since last Friday and a ton of emails.. I know that many of you sent out the link to your personal distro list .. Thanks to Abby. Mark, Kinna, Fatou, Holondo, Mica, Robert, Jose, Patrick,Spicey.. _+++ I know I forgot someone lol ..forgive me. All I can say is that there is a lot more goodies on the way from Marie Lyssa Studio.

I also have to thank the people who contributed directly and indirectly to this labour of love I know that I harassed many of you for feedback on the overall look and feel, image, flow and navigation .. in order to reflect my vision and "me" Thank you:) ... To my dearest friends from the SR community your feedback was priceless ... Amber Hughes at; http://freeformphoto.ca/ for my profile picture,

Scott Robert at;http://www.scottrobertphotography.com/ My Wizard of OZ and mentor ..thank you:) And last but not least to my friend Annie who basically brought my spirit alive on this website by writing the most beautiful biography that I would not write about myself ... I got a lot of great feedback on that and fellow photographers will ask their friends to do the same for their site :) LOL!

BTW I activated my XANGA PAGE to post larger photographs "by popular demand" since this blog is pretty limited in picture size.. Size matters it seems:) here is the link with a few photographs from this week shoots;

http://www.xanga.com/mlyssad

I guess we will have to look at merging the two soon....!!

P.S Below is a photograph of Yelitza Smith

ML
http://www.marielyssa.com/