Results for "Vocalist"

Virginia Schenck

Born: March 21

Virginia Schenck, known by the stage name VA, is an accomplished international vocal artist and jazz performer, utilizing both straight-ahead, spoken word, and free improvisation. VA is an imaginative vocalist with a broad stylistic reach. She can soothe her audience with a beautiful ballad, invigorate them with a re-imagined standard and challenge them with a powerful blast of free improvisation. Yet all of these aspects exist within one singular and unique voice. VA often spices up her shows with world music influences from her own vocal exploration and CircleSinging, which she studied under the legendary Bobby McFerrin

Juliette Gray

Born: August 24, 1956

Juliette Gray is a British voice actor living in Los Angeles working as a British- American voice actor specializing in RP, mid-Atlantic voice over and neutral voice over accents plus other accents, and dialects. Juliette’s performs in a variety of British and American voiceover accents plus a variety of European accents and dialects for commercials, narration, animation, video games and more, plus spoken word renditions to the jazz music from the Great American songbook with her jazz trio under the umbrella of VOICE OVER JAZZED UP. This is the first of an ongoing project on on this CD the musicians are Bill Cunliffe on piano and Gary Gray on tenor sax

Sharmila G. Lash

Vocalist Sharmila G. Lash has appeared as a performer and educator in both jazz and classical settings, and both as a soloist and ensemble member. She is a private voice instructor, a session singer, and a voice over artist. She is a current member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and has performed with many of the top jazz musicians in California. Sharmila is a member of AGMA, SAG-AFTRA, and ASCAP.

Jody Jaress

Wendy Waller

Wendy Waller’s unique and creative approach to melody and lyric embodies the vast rich landscape of American Roots Music. She tells her story with her dynamic multi-ranged voice. There is no compromise with Wendy. She is unyielding in her quest to take the listener on a musical journey. Every performance is a new and provocative experience. Born into an artistic family of musicians, painters, and writers, Wendy spent her young years cultivating her multiple abilities, singing, acting and dancing in musical theater. As a multi-instrumentalist Wendy studied piano, guitar, french horn, trumpet, trombone and flugelhorn

William Kooly Scott

Suzanna Smith

Born: September 25, 1974

A debut album by a smart jazz singer with a lithe, lissome sound is always welcome, but when the artist is also a strikingly effective songwriter, a celebration is in order. With the release of Halfway Between Heaven & Love, Oakland-based Suzanna Smith delivers one of the year’s most impressive vocal projects, an intoxicating mix of original tunes and beautifully rendered standards. Accompanied by some of the most creative figures on the Bay Area scene, Smith combines the confessional imperative of a singer/songwriter with the rhythmic acuity of a jazz chanteuse. She wrote the lyrics for nine of the album’s 13 tracks while collaborating on the music of five songs with pianist/keyboardist Michael Coleman

Rosa Ena Campos

Born: October 19

Rosa Ena Campos was born in the lush volcanic Canary Island of Tenerife. She began her musical journey by studying classical clarinet, and later channeled her passion into improvisational singing focusing on Jazz, Bossa Nova, and indian music. She recorded THE MOON IN ME, a CD that interprets Carlos Antonio Jobim classics in her unique versatile style and includes original compositions that fuse scat, konnakol (South Indian vocal percussion syllables) and flamenco. Another facet of Rosa Ena’s passion is her love for writing poetry and screenplays.  She considers Zen the “Jazz” of spirituality

Rhenda Fearrington

Originally from New York, Rhenda Fearrington always delivers an authentic and warm presentation of Jazz Standards mixed with Soulful originals. She is “true” to her roots which includes performing on the International stage as a back-up singer for Roberta Flack and MTUME, respectively! When Rhenda sings, it’s quite evident there’s a story being told…and it begins and ends with Joy! She has also spent years as a Commercial/Jingle Singer; 15 years performing for schools with her “Feel Sooo Good Tour;” a motivational program that focuses on building the self-esteem of children! Rhenda Co-produced her first solo CD, “This Moment’s Sweetness,” in 2012, with prolific Philadelphia Jazz Bassist, Mike Boone, featuring Tenor Saxophone Legend, Larry McKenna

Katy Shea