Results for "Janiva Magness"

Janiva Magness

Born: January 30, 1957

Award-winning vocalist Janiva Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty and beauty born from her life experience. A charismatic performer known for her electrifying live shows, Magness is a gutsy and dynamic musical powerhouse. She received the coveted 2009 Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year and for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year, an honor she also received in 2006 and 2007. She has received eleven previous Blues Music Award nominations. Magness has been performing for almost three decades, logging thousands of miles on the road and appearing 150 nights a year at clubs, theatres and festivals all over the world. Her rise to the top was far from easy

Change In The Weather

By Janiva Magness

Label: Blue Elan Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Change In The Weather; Lodi; Someday Never Comes; Wrote A Song For Everyone; Don’t You Wish It Was True; Have You Ever Seen The Rain; Bad Moon Rising; Blueboy; Fortunate Son; Deja Vu (All Over Again); A Hundred And Ten In The Shade; Lookin’ Out My Back Door.

Janiva Magness: Change In The Weather

by Doug Collette
September 16, 2019

Janiva Magness makes no effort to hog the spotlight as she Sings John Fogerty and as a direct result of her generosity of spirit, Change In The Weather stands even more distinctly on its own terms as a formidable piece of work. In interpreting this selection of twelve songs by the titular leader of Creedence Clearwater ...

Love Wins Again

By Janiva Magness

Label: Blue Elan Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Love Wins Again; Real Slow; When You told Me; Say You Will; Doorway; Moth To A Flame; Your House Is Burnin’; Just Another Lesson; rain Down; Long As I Can See The Light; Who Will Come For Me.

Janiva Magness: Love Wins Again

by James Nadal
June 9, 2016

There are those whose course in life was altered as music intervened, taking them in another direction. Janiva Magness was headed down a long hard road, when, as a desolate teenager, snuck into a nightclub, and got blinded by the blues. There were the obligatory lean years of paying dues before releasing, “More Than Live" in ...

Award-Winning Janiva Magness to Release "Stronger For It" March 13

March 4, 2012

On March 13, Alligator Records will release Stronger For It, the powerful and stunning new release from award-winning vocalist (and songwriter) Janiva Magness. Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty born from her life experience. Through her passionate vocals and, for the first ...

Janiva Magness Celebrates New Release "Stronger for It" in Sellersville, PA

March 4, 2012

JANIVA MAGNESS CELEBRATES NEW RELEASE IN SELLERSVILLE! Award-winning blues and soul vocalist Janiva Magness will celebrate the release of her new Alligator Records CD, Stronger for It, with a live performance at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Sunday, April 8, 2012. A charismatic artist known for her electrifying live shows, Magness is among the premier ...

Janiva Magness - You Were Never Mine

Featuring the music of Janiva Magness
Duration: 4:34
February 14, 2012

Hope Waits' Debut Album Available July 26 on Spann Records

July 26, 2011

Introducing Hope Waits—the debut release from enigmatic singer/songwriter Hope Waits—was released digitally July 26th on Spann Records. The debut recording from the Louisiana native brews up a sonic gumbo that will satisfy audiences' appetites for impassioned and beautifully handcrafted jazz-tinged blues music. In addition to the physical album's 12 tracks produced by Peter Malick (Norah Jones), ...

Blues/Roots Guitarist & Vocalist Tommy Castro to Perform in Sellersville

July 24, 2011

"Tommy Castro can do no wrong...soulful, heartfelt vocals, and exquisite, stellar guitar work. A seamless blend of blues, gospel-flavored R&B, soul and roadhouse rock." —Blues Revue Blues/roots guitarist and vocalist Tommy Castro will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Castro will be performing songs from his Alligator Records debut, Hard ...