Results for "Vocalist"

Patrizia The Sultry Lady Of Jazz

Born: July 4

Patrizia, nicknamed The Sultry Lady of Jazz by her fans is pleased to announce the January 27, 2007 National Release of her debut album, "ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE. PATRIZIA a popular San Diego based vocalist is gifted with a beautiful rich soulful voice, which is warm and radiant, impressive in it's range, an impeccable sophisticated rhythmic sense, perfect intonation, which is both powerful, but delicately serene. She subtly controls the quality of her voice to aid the interpretation of a song, juxtaposing phrases sung in a soft delicate, warm tone with others in a throaty growl taking you on a enchanting musical journey as she tells the story. Her flawless harmonic sensibility and intonation along with her elegance, and vocal quality control will remind you of Ella Fitzgerald, her vibrato of Billie Holiday,her emotional depth of Carmen McRae, and her sassiness of Sarah Vaughan. Her sincere, never-over-the-top, sultry, emotional delivery of songs is an example of what real music is about

Jan Smigmator

Born: January 17, 1986

Jan Smigmator (1986) is a jazz and swing singer, who has adopted the legacy of easy listening vocalists such was Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Mel Tormé and the living legend Tony Bennett. His style, phrasing and love for jazz and swing music make him one of the artists of this genre in our country. In 2008 Jan successfully finished his music studies at the Prague conservatory in singing (department of pop music and jazz). During his studies he had performed with jazz musicians and orchestras! In 2005 he became a soloist of the legendary Václav Hybš Orchestra with whom he had performed dozens of concerts around Czech Republic. Jan’s greatest love is singing with big bands; you could catch him as a vocalist of Big Band Polná, West Big Band, Sváťa Čech Czech Summit Big Band, Kol�-n Big Band, Moravia Big Band and also an often guest of Gustav Brom Big Band, Karel Vlach Orchestra, Czech Radio Big Band, Rudolf Mazač Kentonmania Big Band or small bands like Adam Tvrdý Trio, Metropolitan Jazz Band, Bonus Orchestra or Polydor sextet. Jan Smigmator also performs with his Swinging trio, great gutarist Milan Kašuba and Josef Vejvoda Trio

Tato Torres

My full name is Carlos Javier Torres Sáez Rodriguez Cintrón, but most people just know me as "Tato" Torres or "TatoBrujo". I was born in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico into an extended family of musicians, educators, artisans and community leaders from the mountain top rural barrio called El Consejo Alto in the southern town of Guayanilla. I grew up in El Alto up until 1984, when my immediate family (parents and siblings) migrated to the U.S. and lived in New York City until November of 2008 when I finally returned home to Puerto Rico. I grew up in a very musical family, and I am, more than anything else, a musician, composer and singer

Rebecka Larsdotter

Rebecka wrote her first song at the age of 2, recorded by her older sister on a tape-recorder of the days. Has since been singing and playing piano, violin, guitar, and finally made Music her full time life in 2002 by taking on a Masters Degree in Music from Orebro and Malmö University of Music. Upon graduating in 2008, Rebecka moved to the US (Los Angeles, then New York) to pursue her passion for songwriting and performing. She has since been writing, performing, singing, and working as a voice and piano instructor. Rebecka has had the privilege to work with amazing musicians both in Scandinavia and the US, some of them noted here: Charles Altura, Göran Abelli, Tony Austin, Linus Abrahamson, Leonard Axelsson, Gustav Bjarnason, Carl Bagge, Mahesh Balasooryia, Kristian Brink, Brandon Coleman, Chris Coleman, Daniel Collins, Olle Dernevik, Lars Ekman, Hadrien Feraud, Zach Harmon, Johan Liedberg, Erik Lindeborg, JP Maramba, Zane Musa, Nick Mancini, Chris Montgomery, Johannes Nästesjö, Vardan Ovsepian, Hamilton Price, Masa Sasaki, Ruslan Sirota, Daniel Tilling, Max Thornberg, Morten Schantz, and Kamasi Washington.

Sarah Ellen Hughes

Award-winning vocalist Sarah Ellen Hughes has established herself as a notable presence on the London jazz scene and beyond. Sarah began her career with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), with whom she was lead vocalist from 2005-2008. Since then she has earned many accolades including winning the 2010 International Jazz Singing Competition, “Jazz Voices,” held in Lithuania. In 2011, she was selected as a semi-finalist for the Montreux Jazz Festival voice competition where she was lucky enough to perform in front of Quincy Jones. Quincy himself said “Great singing girl, keep doing what you’re doing.” Sarah has appeared at many of the UK’s top jazz venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza on the Park (where she held a residency for 8 months), 606 Club, Wakefield Jazz Club, and Marlborough Jazz Festival

Fulvia di Domenico

Born: February 20, 1976

Italian singer, born in Roma and raised between Africa, Paris and Italy. Fulvia studied “French and Spanish language and Litterature” in University in Roma and Spain, and worked for a few years as a translator and interpret before going after her singing carreer. She studied Jazz vocals in Rome with Carolina Brandes, Maria pia de Vito, Shawn monteiro and moved to The Netherlands in 2002 to study “Jazz and World music Vocals” at the Rotterdams Conservatorium, from where she graduated in 2006 and where she is stil living and actively working as a singer/songwriter/performer. Fulvia had released in 2011 her first cd with her band, FULVIA-La Ballata dei piedi volanti. She had Played on stages in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, with international musicians of the Jazz and world music scene.

Lee Shanel

Born: May 7, 1955

Hailed for his rich baritone vocals, Lee Shanel draws upon the profound influences of his studies, his Puerto Rican "Bohemian Latin-Romantica" heritage, the Classical Great Masters, and Retro-Jazz. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Bohemian Latin-Romantic balladeer got his start performing at a young age, touring through houses of worship in the tropics. At the age of 12, Lee Shanel started strumming the guitar in his birth city of Ponce, Puerto Rico under the mentoring of Professor Rafael Moreno. However, it wasn’t until his secondary education when he realized that he wanted to embrace music

Florencia Ruiz

Singer Florencia Ruiz was born in Haedo, Buenos Aires in 1977. She studied guitar at the Conservatory of Morón, and also studied bandoneon and composition, in addition to faculty work and teaching in schools and kindergartens in the province of Buenos Aires.

Ruiz's musical work is devoted to the composition of songs. Between 2000 and 2005 she made a trilogy critically acclaimed albums : Centre (2000), Cuerpo (2003), and Correr (2005), which were produced/released in Mexico and Japan. In 2006 she made Campfire, an album of remixes and different versions of previous recorded songs, made by national and international musicians under the production of Seba Landro

Peyrafitte

Multimedia performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte was born in Luchon (French Pyrenees) into the 5th generation of a family of restaurateurs. As an autodidact, she considers each step of her work an attempt to fulfill her compulsion to learn through a process of immersion that generates performances incorporating voice / paintings / videos / writing & often cooking. Peyrafitte performs locally, nationally and in Europe. She also often collaborates with her partner, poet Pierre Joris. For detailed information visit her website at: www.nicolepeyrafitte.com

Patrizio Buanne

Born: September 20, 1978

Patrizio Buanne spent his childhood living and traveling from an early age between his families hometown Naples, Italy and Vienna, Austria, due to his parent's restaurant business. This multi-cultural upbringing sparked in Patrizio an early passion for languages, and by the age of 17 he already spoke fluent Italian, German, English, French and Spanish. It seemed obvious for both Patrizio and his parents for him to become an interpreter, and after graduation from school he went on to study Slavic languages at University and today he can add fluent Polish to his language tool kit. But whilst his aptitude for languages is admirable, a much greater gift, apparent even from the age of 4, was emerging--his gift to be able to sing and entertain people. While Patrizio's parents would record old vinyl records onto cassettes to be played in their restaurant, the three or four year old Patrizio would sing along enthusiastically whilst playing with his toys