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MUSICMIND RECORDS SIGNS FORMER OLYMPIC GOLD & SILVER MEDALIST CARLY PATTERSON TO EXCLUSIVE RECORDING AGREEMENT

Debut Single TEMPORARY LIFE (ORDINARY GIRL) set for Release March 25, 2008 via iTunes with Album to Hit Music Market Place August 5, 2008.

New York, NY February 20, 2008---The Chicago-based MUSICMIND RECORDS has signed Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist CARLY PATTERSON to an exclusive recording agreement with plans to release her first single TEMPORARY LIFE/ORDINARY GIRL on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 through iTunes. The label is distributed by Federal Distribution, a division of Universal Music Group and will release Patterson’s forthcoming first album on August 5, 2008.

“We are extremely excited about Carly. She is poised to emerge as one of the unique music discoveries for 2008”, says Tony Ferguson, General Manager/A&R for MusicMind Records.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the 20-year-old Patterson has come a long way in such a short period. The gymnast made her debut at the senior international elite level, winning back-to-back American Cup titles in 2003 and 2004, as well as the title of 2004 U.S. Co-National Champion. Patterson was also a member of the 2003 World Championship Team where she won a Silver Medal in the all-around and helped lead the U.S. to their first ever World Championship team Gold Medal. It was also at this competition that Carly’s signature beam dismount (an Arabian double front) was officially named “The Patterson”. At the 2004 Olympic Games, Carly and her teammates earned the silver medal in the team competition. It was also at this competition that Carly became the first American woman in 20 years to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the all-around title category since Mary Lou Retton.

In 2006, Patterson decided to retire from Gymnastics after having lower back issues and to pursue a life long passion of becoming a recording artist. Since the games, Patterson has stayed occupied with event appearances (gymnastics related and otherwise), landed a number of high profile corporate sponsorships, appeared in a Mobile ESPN commercial aired during Super Bowl XL, appeared on Celebrity Duets (produced by Simon Cowell of American Idol fame) and finished her authorized biography, which is currently in bookstores nation wide.

Carly will visit radio and TV in support of the project. With the assistance of Universal/Republic, MusicMind Records plans on garnering national and international recognition for Carly Patterson’s August 2008 CD release.

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