Arienne Battiste

Shenita Hunt is an international recording artist, singer, and songwriter whose vocal style is a cultivation of many musical influences! Growing up with her parents who managed live bands and a family-owned night club, Shenita was exposed to singing in churches, top 40 and soulful R&B at a very early age.

As a native of Georgia, her musical training started with piano at the age of 4. As a pianist, her performing began by playing for churches in her hometown and in neighboring communities. It was in church and in school that she began her journey as a soulful singer. She received her formal vocal training at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. It was there that she began most of her international touring experience as a background vocalist! She continued to work as a background vocalist, studio singer, and as lead singer of her own band after she graduated from college. Her recording experiences include working as a studio vocalist and vocal coach for many Grammy award winning artists and engineers and singing in various languages, but her vocal range is immersed in her roots of southern gospel.

She also toured as a singer in Spain, Paris, Central America, over half of the US, and major parts of the Caribbean!

Additionally, Shenita has studied sound engineering, and production which lead to her release of her first self-recorded, self-produced cd. At that time, she began her quest to be a solo artist, releasing her original CD, “Color My World” with a single titled, “Are You Ready for Love” that reached #4 on the UK Charts in 2005!

Since then, she has teamed up with Grammy-award winners, Vidal Davis, Gary Noble, and Berni Arzola, to help her mix and master her newest cd releases.

Those released include jazz singles, “The Sign of the Blue Jay”, “NYC Nights”; and an R&B holiday music CD, with one original remix, “At Christmas Time” featuring Jamaican rapper, Honorebel. Her new-released 2024 R&B Cd, is titled “Dreams of Love.