Results for "Vocalist"

Tyra Levone

Tyra Levone is a soulful R&B artist whose voice blends warmth, vulnerability, and quiet confidence into a sound that feels both timeless and refreshingly present. Rooted in classic soul tradition yet shaped by modern R&B sensibilities, Tyra’s music centers on emotional honesty, intimacy, and storytelling that resonates long after the last note fades.

Known for her rich vocal tone and expressive delivery, Tyra approaches songwriting as conversation—unrushed, sincere, and deeply personal. Her work explores love, self-assurance, desire, and emotional ease, often choosing subtlety over spectacle. Rather than chasing trends, she leans into feeling, allowing groove and melody to support the truth in her lyrics.

Julio Zoá

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Tony Martin (2)

Born: December 25, 1913

Tony Martin was a popular American crooner and actor during the big band era. Born Alvin Morris in San Fransisco, California, on Christmas Day in 1913, Martin began his career playing saxophone alongside Woody Herman in Tom Gerun's orchestra. He was convinced by dance band leader Ben Bernie to switch to singing in the early 1930s, but did not gain much mainstream recognition until 1936, when he appeared in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rodgers musical "Follow the Fleet". By 1938, Martin was an established and popular crooner as well as actor, and had given up playing saxophone. Throughout the 1940s Martin scored multiple hit songs, such as "To Each His Own" and the Oscar-nominated "It's a Blue World" from Music in My Heart

Whitney Ross-Barris

Born: November 20, 1979

Whitney Ross-Barris is an Ontario-based jazz singer and songwriter with proud roots in the theatre. Her newest release, Curtains of Light is a genre-bending record of original music rooted in jazz but woven through with threads of soul, spoken word, classical, folk and choral music. The album reflects the full breadth of her artistic experience—intimate and expansive in equal measure.

A regular performer across Ontario's vibrant music scene, Whitney has released three jazz albums, including her self-titled EP, her full-length solo record Everybody’s Here, as well as The Bright Lunch Trio with guitarist Nathan Hiltz. She has also appeared as guest singer and lyricist on such celebrated recordings as The Art of Breath: Volume One with saxophonist John MacMurchy.

Patrick Felixson

Born: May 8, 2003

Patrick Felixson is a straight-ahead jazz vocalist devoted to Black American music, bringing his own soul to the Great American Songbook through the lens of his lived experience. Known for his rich, bright, and nimble tenor voice — with a slight gravel that adds depth and romantic elegance — Felixson blends the traditional with the modern, creating performances that feel both timeless and deeply personal.

Patrick Felixson's musical foundation is rooted in the church and shaped by six years of international performance across Russia, the United States, and Canada. From local bars and pubs in Kursk, Russia, to Fredericton and Toronto, he has spent countless nights on the bandstand, mentored by musicians who instilled in him a deep respect for the tradition. His performances balance reverence and emotional honesty, honoring the masters who came before him while carving out space for his own voice.

SwingStreet Big Band

Swingstreet Band operates as a 17-piece swing ensemble, an 8-piece dance and event band and a 5-piece jazz combo.

We are located in Durham Region, east of Toronto and perform to a wide variety of venues and audiences.

Private parties, corporate events, holiday events, weddings, festivals, public indoor/outdoor events.

Members of SwingStreet are accomplished, pro-level musicians, each with decades of performance experience in the GTA and Durham Region.

Lina Marcela Sarmiento Tellez

Born: November 26, 1998

Lina Sarmiento is a Colombian soprano, theatre actress, and illustrator whose work flows between opera, musical theatre, sacred and baroque music, and Latin American folklore. With a Master’s degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston and a Bachelor’s from EAFIT University in Medellín, she approaches performance as a space where voice, body, and image converge.

Her stage experience includes roles such as Susana in Le Nozze di Figaro, Raquel in La Corte del Faraón, Coral in La Leyenda del Beso, the Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and LK in Sondheim on Sondheim at Longy. As a soloist, she has sung in works including Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon, Rutter’s Requiem, and Fauré’s Requiem. In 2024, she also worked as stage manager for L’Elisir d’Amore with Florida Opera and Zarzuela in Miami.

Harley White Jr.

Active since: September 11, 1965

Since 1991, Harley White Jr. has been a prominent figure on the Sacramento music scene in a wide array of roles from pop recording artist with “Papa’s Culture”, as a creative force with “Blackalicious”, “Original Heads” and “Dr. Echo”, as an award winning bassist, and as an impresario presenting the WhiteNoise™ festival.

Now, with the Harley White Jr. (HWJO) Jazz Orchestra, White returns to his musical roots as the son of prominent Bay Area Educator,Bassist, Harley White Sr. Performing Groups 1991- 1996 "Papa’s Culture" (Funk/Pop/World Beat) 1995 to present "Original Heads"(Funk/Jazz/Hip Hop) 2005 "Harley White Jr

Kathryn Ballard Shut

Born: November 9

KATHRYN BALLARD SHUT (pronounced /shoot/) is an accomplished jazz pianist and vocalist, living and working in the Denver, Colorado live music scene, and grew up surrounded by both music lovers and working musicians. Classically trained on the piano beginning at age 8, reeds at age 10, and incorporating jazz theory by age 14, Kathryn has served as both pianist and woodwind "doubler" in big bands (clarinet/flute/saxes) and small combos (piano and vocals), including several jazz orchestras within The Colorado Jazz Workshop under the leadership of Hugh Ragin. She is also the daughter of the late Kansas Music Hall of Fame honoree, jazz and soul legend Tim Ballard.