Project Lionheart: Seattle Based Ensemble Connects Hip-Hop with Activism on 'The Art of Resistance,' Their Sound Records Debut with Appearances by Canibus, Wu-Tang Clan Members, Bronze Nazareth and American Idol Runner-Up Blake Lewis

SEATTLE, WA. (Top40 Charts/ Luck Media & Marketing, Inc.) - Project Lionheart's upcoming release The Art of Resistance (Special Edition) on Seattle-based indie label Sound Records features remixed and remastered versions of all of the tracks from the group's debut album, which they originally produced and pressed themselves, in addition to four brand new cuts.

With digital distribution by Universal-affiliated distributor In Grooves, the revamped 14 track album now includes star-studded feature performances by Canibus, popular MC Crooked I, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Tang Clan associate and producer Bronze Nazareth, well-known Seattle rapper Damon Kollar, and singer/beatboxer Blake Lewis, runner up in the 2007 American Idol competition.

Most high school graduates from the U.S. who can afford to travel spend that first summer out of school in places like Mexico or Europe. But Caleb Cunningham, frontman, songwriter and producer for the powerhouse hip-hop ensemble, knew it was time to start getting his groove on. So he took off from his adopted hometown of Seattle to study the drums in Dakar, Senegal.

While returning to West Africa several more times over the next few years, he split his time Stateside drumming in a local reggae band and building an arsenal of hip hop beats and songs. He thought he hit the big time a few years later when he scored a gig as the drummer and MC for The Mob Law, a group whose fusion of hip hop, rock, punk and reggae earned them a huge following in Seattle and the chance to record an EP and a full length album, Hold Us Down.

Gathering the massive arsenal of beats and original material he had accumulated over the years, Cunningham left The Mob Law in 2007 and got serious about developing the Project Lionheart concept he launched as a 'hobby project' back in 2001. Hooking up with longtime friends, onetime Mob Law guitarist TJ Berry, bassist Jarrod Keith and Senegalese percussionist Thione Diop, Cunningham launched his new purely hip hop driven band.