Kiss Daniel’s “New Era” album, and how it has been strategically ripped apart for singles, shows that there’s a long term benefit of having good music on a full-length project. And everything works.

Kiss Daniel intends to stick to that formula which has guided him thus far. Here is a man who broke through with no help from the stars, and has built on that with very little help. His first body of ...

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