Results for "Composer, Performer, and Producer"

Steve Adorno

Born: April 30, 1957

Funk-Rock-Latin-Soul Steve is a natural born musician. When hes working his magic on his first instrument, the drums, Steve instinctively knows how to lay it in the pocket. His solid Bronx backbeat has powered several name acts such as Sara Dash, Linda Hopkins and Kid Creole and the Coconuts. In 1980, Steve joined Arista recording artist G.Q., whose three #1 hit singles include the now classic dance hit Disco Nights. Steve received both gold and platinum albums for his work with G.Q. Extensive world touring has brought him to many large venues such as Soldiers Field in Chicago, Cobo Arena in Detroit, Giant Stadium in New Jersey, Madison Square Garden in NYC, and The Winter Splash Music Festival on the island of Jamaica

Shueh-li Ong

Shueh-li is best known for the way she melds electronic-pop-rock-jazz, with her fav sci-fi instrument; the theremin, synths, tin-whistle, piano, and sound design. Shueh-li has recorded and produced 4 CDs and several singles to date. Australian born Shueh-li (Shelley) is known as 'Singapore's 1st & only diva of the theremin', and in Nashville as their 'Queen of the theremin'.

Though she has been compared to such self produced artists as Kate Bush, Madonna, and Yoko Kanno, Shueh-li's sound is very much her own.

Shueh-li is also founder & leader of Xenovibes (electronic-prog band.) Artists who have worked with her include Dean Parks, Shelley Carrol, Curtis Randall, Chuck Smith, Mike McKinney. 

Todd Sickafoose

A Bay Area native, Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell. Since then, he's been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Jessica Lurie, Erin McKeown, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Shane Endsley, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger. The consistency of his personal voice within wildly diverse collaborations prompted the LA Weekly in 2004 to call Todd "one of the most comprehensive musical minds of this coast"

Roan Kearsey-Lawson

Prolific across most musical genres as both a virtuoso Performer and commissioned Composer. Roan Kearsey-Lawson is “a talented multi-instrumentalist and composer” (Ian Maund, 2014), a Classical Timpanist, Classical World & Jazz Marimba Player, a Classical Percussionist and Piano player, and a experienced Theatre Drum Kit performer. He is “Described as One of the World’s Greatest Vibes Players” (Club for Acts & Actors, London, June 2017). Roan has worked with the likes of Scott Hamilton and Darius Brubeck, and so many more. As well as working with the who's who of jazz he has performed in many prestigious venues as a guest artist

Igor Kogan

Born: July 29

Igor Kogan is a jazz artist, bassist, composer and bandleader. He has performed at prestigious venues and festivals in U.S., Canada and Europe, including Jazz at Lincoln Center and Steinway Hall (New York), Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Toronto Music Festival (Canada), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel); and appeared at renowned jazz clubs Smalls, Zinc, Fat Cat (New York); Herb Alpert’s Vibrato, Blue Whale, Vitellos, The Lighthouse (Los Angeles) among other venues.

Born in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, he started to play violin at age 7. He immigrated to Israel at the age of 15 where he simultaneously pursued his interest in music and science, and started to play bass and compose music

Grace Brancale

With singles featured on local and global smooth jazz, pop, rock, and classical radio stations, and on leaders like smoothjazz.com, 96.9 The Oasis, Pandora, Amazon, iHeartRadio, and many more, Grace Brancale has been described as a prolific and internationally acclaimed artist that emerges with a soulful, lush, eclectic, dreamy sound, surrounding her lyrical, rhythmic ivory melodies with seductive grooves and sensual, soaring ambiences across her est. 29 albums in a little over 4 years with many charting or selected by users as high as #2 in Top 10, 30, 50, 100 lists or weekly top singles lists for indies and mixed indie and labeled artists the past year