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"\"I've been waiting for a reason to start a record label, and I think you're that reason,\" multiplatinum superstar Adam Levine said two years ago to Rozzi Crane, a then-unknown music student at USC. But the 22-year-old San Francisco native never auditioned for The X Factor, American Idol, or The Voice\u2014so how did she get the attention of reality TV's most coveted (and dreamy) judge? It goes like this: Mesmerized by her finely tuned talent, classmate and former Phantom Planet guitarist Jacques Brautbar approached Rozzi on campus and asked to collaborate with her. The rocker led her to Sam Farrar (his once-upon-a-time bandmate), who introduced her to his shared manager with Maroon 5 ... and the rest is music history! \"I didn't want to go to college at all,\" Rozzi admits, but after that series of fortuitous events, she now says it's \"the best decision I've ever made.\"\n\nThe singer-songwriter's dynamic presence has tinges of Aretha, Amy, and Adele\u2014there's no denying her intangible It factor. She's featured on the Hunger Games soundtrack (\"I didn't believe it was going to happen!\"), collaborated with famed rapper Kendrick Lamar for her in-the-works debut album (\"It's very autobiographical\"), and is now on tour opening for Kelly Clarkson and Maroon 5 (\"I have a total brother-sister vibe going on with the boys\"). With the help of mentor and friend Adam, the chills-inducing, sultry songstress is bound to hit all the right notes: \"It's different from your standard major label, where the head is some Oz figure you never see,\" she says. \"I really respect him, and he respects me. When he loves something, he'll tell me. When he doesn't, he'll tell me.\" And how will she manage to repay the pop star for his undying support? \"I'd love to stop by The Voice one day and trick him,\" Rozzi jokes. \"He'd better turn his chair around!\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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