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Amber Chiang

Jazz/Pop Vocalist; Piano/Voice Instructor; Artist

About Me

New York born, jazz/pop vocalist, Amber Chiang, received her musical training at the University of Massachusetts. Her jazz styling influences are a combination of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Betty Carter as well as from Brazilian and pop artists. She has appeared around the world as a soloist singing jazz and pop, including at the Blue Note, NYC; and was the featured soloist at the 2000 Southern California Summer Special Olympics. She received “Honorable Mention” for two of her original songs from the Billboard World Song Contest; and produced a CD of 13 original songs.

Inspired by her love of music, she has been teaching piano and voice for over 25 years.

Being of Chinese descent, her passion for art took the form of Chinese brush painting. There are quite a few artists in the family. She has always had an affinity towards the arts, music and painting, and started studying art at an early age. She especially loves the water color medium. All of her paintings are painted on either rice paper or silk in the traditional manner using Chinese brushes and watercolor, and mounted and framed professionally. 

My Jazz Story

I was first exposed to jazz in the '80s as jazz fusion. George Benson, Weather Report, etc. And slowly it peaked my interest to discover all the jazz greats. I worked as a DJ and had access to the music library where I listened to as many jazz albums as I could. I got to meet many of the jazz musicians when I lived in San Francisco and worked at Keystone Korner. All the greats performed there and I used to hang out with them in the back room and listen to their stories. It was an amazing time!Living in Greenwich Village, NYC, I was in the heart of the jazz scene and got to see many performers.; and even had my own gig at the Blue Note with Marc Cohen, piano, Harvie S on bass and Billy Hart on drums!!! What a band!