Grammy invitation excites Sophia Brown

Singer Sophia Brown should have already jetted off to the Grammy Awards this weekend and has the enviable option of either attending or choosing to take up an invitation to Jay-Z's after-Grammy party in New York.

It is further evidence that 2012 is turning into a special year for the lovers' rock singer from St Elizabeth, who is coming off a breakout performance before an audience of 17,000 at the Home Depot Centre in California just over a week ago.

Performing before such a large crowd, she said, was a fulfilling experience.

"The California All-Star Classic was a fantastic event given the fact that I hit the stage at about 6:30 in the evening and the crowd, went, wild," she said recalling the January 29 performance. "You couldn't even hear the tracks that were playing."

Dress in distressed jeans, stilettos and black t-shirt covered by a silver jacket, Brown reeled off several of her more popular songs including Catch Me If You Can, Let It Be Me and Lazy Day, a new track from her upcoming album.

"It was fantastic to share the stage with Orlando Brown (of That's So Raven fame). That was an experience sharing the stage with someone not from my culture in terms of a performer."

Brown said she also had a good time appearing on Jamie Foxx's radio show, 'L.A. Talk Live'.

"I went there the Thursday before my performance at the Home Depot Centre and made such an impression on everyone there asked me to come back and co-host on January 30. That was good for me as an outsider breaking into the American audience."

While on the trip, Sophia Brown also got to rub shoulders with some of Hollywood's biggest stars including Foxx, Floyd Mayweather, 50 Cent and Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino and also recorded a single, My Baby Got Game, with Orlando Brown.

The single should appear on her upcoming album.

And after all that excitement, she must have been weak in the knees when she returned home to find that she had been invited to this year's Grammy Awards.

"Coming back home to find an invitation to the Grammys and to Jay-Z's after-party at the 40-40 Club in New York, makes you feel good to know that I have the knowledge to do what I needed to get this kind of recognition," she said.

"It puts me in a mood. It's like I am high on something, a musical high going into the release of my album in March."