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Gina Panizales

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Music and singing has always been a part of her for as long as she can remember. Growing up in the Philippines, Gina was exposed to all kinds of genre at a tender age and was active in choirs, solo performances and drama/musical theater productions in school. Although she started doing commercial music to earn a living, she was listening to Jazz, blues, gospel and broadway music during her spare time. She believes that the key to a successful singer is the ability to listen to others and to yourself.

Her performances has taken her to many parts of Asia while based in Kuala Lumpur, and has traveled to South America, Australia, Europe and the US. One of her cherished moments was performing live at the Cotton Club in New York with their in-house swing band.

In Malaysia, she’s performed with some of the region’s top notch musicians both local and international. She was the vocalist for Asiabeat (with Lewis Pragasam), Face First (with Greg Lyons), Aztec Jam (with Stuart Henderson), Jungle Jazz (with Dodong Jumawan), Eye to Eyejazzmix, the Willie Rebano band, WVC Trio with Tay Cher Siang and the Solianos to name a few. In Sabah East Malaysia, with fingerstyle guitarist and record producer Roger Wang. She has also done guest performances for royalties, the Kuala Lumpur City Hall Orchestra, and charity performances. Last year, she had the rare privilege to perform with international jazz fusion recording artist Boy Katindig at No Black Tie in Kuala Lumpur.

Her influences include Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitgerald, Dinah Washington, Diane Schuur, Diane Reeves, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Porter, Gershwin, Big bands, and acid/fusion groups. She has a strong inclination to Blues, and Latin music (having Spanish as part of her heritage) too, and has great respect for the music of Tania Maria, Ivan Lins, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Tito Puente, Elain Elias and Poncho Sanchez.

Gina Panizales is currently active in the Kuala Lumpur jazz circuit with her quartet called GPjQ performing at jazz joints like Groove Junction, Bangkok Jazz, WIP Bangsar Alexis and No Black Tie. She’s also taken part at the several jazz festivals like the Riau Jazz Festival in 2007, Indonesia and the highly acclaimed Sunrise Montkiara Jazzfest for 3 years and has done radio appearances as featured at 90.3 FM Jazz Selecta in KL and and RTHK’s Radio 4 Jazzin’ Up in Hongkong. Add that to the jazz segments at Down Memory Lane on TV1 at Radio TV Malaysia. Special events, launches, private and corporate functions also keeps her calendar occupied.

On April 30, 2008, she released her self produced, debut album- FINALLY Gina Panizales under Multinum Entertainment. A contemporary mix of Jazz, Latin and R & B she calls an honest reflection of her passion,inspirations and influences throughout her musical journey.This album is distributed in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

She recently co-produced ‘LOVE’S Tapestry’ album with Leslie Loh and Roger Wang under Poppopmusic label, and was released on 18 December 2009. A stripped down acoustic version on audiophiles of beautifully selected 70’s and 80’s love songs that could melt anyone’s heart. The album’s limited edition is currently available at major record stores in Kuala Lumpur and is also distributed in Hongkong, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan and soon to be distributed in Europe.

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