Results for "Vocalist"

Reggie Wright

Born: October 10, 1973

Reggie Wright was born October 10th 1973 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; the second of 3 boys born to Reginald Sr. and Janise Wright (Furby). Reggie was raised in the Church of God In Christ and began singing in his early teen years. Having made the decision to sing as a vocation he began studying the vocal styling of many noted gospel singers such as The Hawkins Family, The Clark Sisters and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. Being one dimensional vocally worked for a while until he heard the late Sarah Vaughan sing “Body and Soul” on television and it forever changed his interpretation of song. While the music of the church will always be present and evident; jazz and R & B became great peripheral interests. After arriving in California in the summer of 2002, Reggie pursued jazz music of the late 40’s, 50’s and 60’s

Chinua Hawk

Born: March 11, 1975

Award Winning, Singer, Songwriter, just some of the words that can be used to describe Chinua Hawk. As a performer with hundreds of performances under his belt, Chinua has been captivating audiences all over the world with the simplicity and class that has defined his career. “My show is very simple, what you see is what you get. If you come to my show, then I know you came to hear some real singing and to have a good time. I'm not a dancer; I'm a storyteller and a dreamer. I share these things with you onstage, it is just that simple.” Says Chinua. Chinua has released three independent CDs and has just completed his fourth CD, A Beautifully Complicated Life produced and arranged by Joseph Patrick Moore (Earl Klugh, Stewart Copeland, Bob James)

Sara Leib

Born: December 21, 1981

Nearly all of the dozen songs on Sara Leib’s remarkable Secret Love from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “It Might As Well Be Spring” to Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love" qualify as standards, yet the Los Angeles jazz singer does quite un-standard, wonderfully refreshing things with every number she wraps her glowing, frequently cheery mezzo- soprano tones around. While transforming the tunes with amazing new twists of time and tempo, Leib uncannily cuts to the emotional cores of the composers’ original lyrics. Leib “reinterprets the template of the standard into something that seasoned jazz enthusiasts and crossover fans from the Norah Jones camp will both be blown away by,” Jamie Rattner wrote in Performer magazine of the singer’s acclaimed self-released debut CD, 2003’s It’s Not the Moon. She takes her unique way with American popular songs steps further on the highly anticipated Secret Love on Origin Records

Mary D'Orazi

Mary D'Orazi’s warm, lyrical, mezzo soprano voice can color melodies across various genres. She possesses a crystalline tone, strong rhythmic sensibility and thoughtful phrasing. On a rhythmically complex, highly syncopated Brazilian song, her vocal lightness and flexibility come into play. In vocal harmony, singing jazz or pop, she has the aural sensitivity to blend, nuance and dance with other voices. Brazilian music has become a solid landing place for Mary, who has sung various styles throughout her life, and it seems to be a natural fit for her in terms of feel and expression. Over the past decade, Mary has devoted most of her practice to learning an expanse of Brazilian repertoire, with Rio-born pianist/composer Marcos Silva as her mentor

Kate Davis

Born: February 4, 1991

Kate Davis is a vocalist and bassist based in New York City. She performs a variety of styles, primarily preserving the last century’s great American songs. After moving to the Pacific Northwest in middle school, Kate was nurtured by the supportive music community in Portland Oregon. There, she was able to satisfy her hunger to learn and perform. National recognition came in high school for bass and singing as a Silver winner through NFAA’s "youngARTS", a recipient of four Downbeat Magazine Student Awards, a double invitee to the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony, and bassist in the Grammy Jazz Ensemble

Beth Rohde

Born: May 14

Beth Rohde has had a wide-ranging career in music as a performer and educator. She began her professional career in Boston singing jazz and Brazilian music as a solo artist and with the band Beijo do Brasil. She moved back to her hometown of Minneapolis in 1993 and worked as a jingle singer for Radio Concepts and headed the vocal department at McNally Smith College of Music. She performed and recorded as Liz Forester during that time. In 1994, her career went on hold after she was the victim of gun violence in Brazil. She resumed her career in 1996 with a 3-month tour in Japan then temporarily relocated to Atlanta to sing at events surrounding the Olympic games and to record for Cartoon Network

Reem Kelani

Born: August 7

Reem Kelani, the Palestinian singer, musician, musicologist and broadcaster, was born in England, brought up in Kuwait, and she now lives in London. Reem is both bi-lingual and bi-cultural. She does her own research, composes and arranges her music, trains and leads her (mostly non-Arab) musicians in Arabic music, and sings. She is at once respectful of convention and highly innovative.

Reem’s profile in the Arab and non Arab world continues to grow in equal measure, all the more to her credit as an unsigned artist who has preserved her independence, musically, spiritually and politically.

Tanya Balakyrska

Born: August 29, 1981

A vocalist and composer, originated from Ukraine and residing in Russia. Tanya’s music style is quite difficult to distinguish. Indie, minimalism, some bits of jazz, pop, lounge and sympho-fusion are mixed in it, depending on a particular lineup chosen. Tanya writes music and lyrics, sometimes co-working with a Canadian poet Sienna Dahlen and using poems by E.E.Cummings.

Tanya performs at various international jazz and contemporary music festivals in CIS and Europe, gets invitations to play at prestigious venues of Russia and Ukraine. Her debut Lviv Sessions CD became subject to extended author’s radio programs broadcast internationally (Estonian Raadio 4, Klassikaraadio, Armenian Radio Van etc.)

Elizabeth Dawson

Elizabeth Dawson has been singing since childhood, but it was only in college that she was introduced to jazz music, in Brian Kirk's jazz ensemble at Seattle Central. Elizabeth is self-taught, having learned to sing jazz by watching and listening to all the great jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Carmen McRae, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald. Elizabeth has performed with Seattle Central's jazz ensemble at Tula's Jazz Club, Benaroya Hall, and the Seattle Central Unity Fair, with Blue Moon Daughter at the Ballard Jam House and the Taste of Tacoma, and at Grazie's, The Showbox and various private events with Black Lab Trio

Joan Belgrave

Joan Belgrave, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer recorded her sixth solo project, entitled Oooo Boy.