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- ↑ Release Entertainment biography Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ House of Tudor, Silke Tudor, SF Weekly, January 22, 2003. Accessed on line December 2, 2007.
- ↑ Amber Asylum, biography, AllMusic. Accessed on line December 2, 2007.
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