At the sweet recco of Maria, I picked up a bunch of tracks from Mozella, a songstress with vocals that tinge on Duffy-style music. I love the stories of people running off to LA to pursue their dreams – stolen from Wikipedia:

MoZella was born and raised in Livonia, Michigan, where she first got her start as a performer booking her own gigs in coffee houses at age 15. Immediately after graduating from high school, she set out for Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. She took a day job decorating cakes, leaving her free to perform at coffee houses in the evenings. In 2002, MoZella was invited to England to write and record with Tim Saul, producer for Portishead. After she spent six months in Europe, she returned to Los Angeles when label interest was building.

If that’s not incentive to start learning to decorate cakes, I’m not really sure what is. Personal favourite: “Light Years Away”.

Watch her cute little diddy called “Manhattan” after the jump.

Links: twitter.com/mozellamusic (though she keeps responding to people with winky faces only), myspace.com/mozella