Results for "Vocalist"

Melanie Charles

Melanie Charles is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist of Haitian descent with creative fluidity spanning jazz, soul, experimental, and Haitian roots music. Charles grew up singing in church, trained as an opera singer, and attended the prestigious LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts as a flute major. She is a 2010 Vocal Jazz Performance graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and has trained under the tutelage of jazz masters Reggie Workman, Bobby Sanabria, Junior Mance, Janet Lawson, Carla Cook, and Billy Harper. Charles has performed at world renowned venues, both as a leader and a sideman, in New York (Jazz at Lincoln Center; Blue Note; Smalls; Nublu), Italy (Blue Note, Milan), Japan (Billboard Live), France (Duc de Lombards, Paris), England (Ronnie Scott’s), Poland (12on14; Harris Piano Jazz Bar), Germany, and Russia

Niki Haris

Niki Haris, daughter of Grammy nominated jazz pianist Gene Harris, grew up in Middle America, Benton Harbor, Michigan. She was college educated in Southern California. Niki then pursued her singing career in the usual amusement parks and clubs in the California area. This dynamic woman has since gone on to work with a multitude of recording artist ranging from Pop, R&B, to Jazz. Her live performances and recording experience reads like a who¹s who of the music world. With names such as; Ray Charles, David Sanborn, Patrice Rushen, Michael Sembello, Leann Rimes, Michelle Branch, Santana, Kylie Minogue, Luther Vandross, All Saints, Wilton Felder of the Jazz Crusaders, Stanley Turrentine, the Righteous Bros., Julian Lennon, Anita Baker, Mick Jagger, Whitney Houston and Madonna. Her vocal film work is also featured on the soundtracks of Whoopi Goldberg¹s "Corrina Corrina", DreamWorks "The Big Green", "Coyote Ugly" with Leann Rimes, and Disney¹s "Anastasia"

Anna Mjoll

Anna Mjöll was born inReykjavik, Iceland. She is the daughter of guitarist, composer and arranger Olafur Gaukur and singer, model and radio program director/producer Svanhildur Jakobsdóttir. Her parents had one of the most successful bands in the history of Iceland, “Sextett �”lafs Gauks” - with their own TV show, numerous albums and constant touring. Mjöll was trained in piano, guitar and cello. She released her first CD recorded with her mother at age 19, and performed on Iceland television numerous times prior to her 1996 Eurovision appearance where she represented Iceland with the song Sjúb�-dú (Shoe-be-do) which she co-wrote with her father

Moo Lohkenn

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Gabi Kenderesi

Catherine Jauniaux

CATHERINE JAUNIAUX is a unique French born vocalist and composer who's contributed to numerous R.I.O. projects and has stood at the forefront of vocal improvisation of the downtown NYC scene for many years. Her vocals exhibit a vast platter of sounds, encompassing invented languages to schizophrenic meanderings and everything in-between. Some of the projects she has participated in include: The Hat Shoes, Aksak Maboul (vocals on a select tracks), Des Airs, The Work, Third Person and collaborative work with the likes of Erik M and Ikue Mori. She also was the wife of late cello player Tom Cora.

Aiko Shimada

Aiko was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to Oregon when she was 18 to study English.

She started singing and playing guitar when she was 24. She first joined a folk-rock band, became a jazz DJ at a college radio station (KBVR-FM), and later formed her own eclectic folk/jazz improvisational trio, Played Twice while in Oregon.

Aiko moved to Seattle in 1993 and started performing her original music at local venues and festivals.(Bumbershoot, Seattle Art Museum, NW Folklife Festivals, Tractor Tavern, Sit and Spin, OK Hotel, On the Boards, etc).

Aiko has appeared on KUOW (National Public Radio) for live and recorded interviews on two different CDs, TCI Television in Seattle, KAOS radio in Olympia, KBCS radio in Bellevue/Seattle for live/interview shows, and KCMU (KEXP) Live Room and Sonarchy Radio, live shows.

Marta Sebestyen

Born: 1957

Born in Budapest (1957), Marta grew up surrounded with music. Her mother, a music teacher studied with the great composer, scholar and ethnomusicologist

Antonio Barbagallo

Born: May 1

Antonio Barbagallo is a jazz vocalist, guitar player, and composer from Catania, Italy.Arriving on US shores, Barbagallo studied with Barry Harris, one of the few living icons of Be-bop. As luck would have it, he was selected to play guitar in the European School for Jazz Conductors and Instrumentalists' orchestra directed by Gunther Schuller. Based in Palermo, this was the pioneer school for "jazz conducting" in Europe, if not in the world. French horn player/composer/arranger/conductor and foremost jazz expert Schuller is a legend in jazz history, particularly for his contribution to the experimental "third stream movement," a midpoint between jazz and classical music

Eduardo Domingues de Jesus

Eduardo Domingues de Jesus founded the band which his friends started calling by the name Eduardo and His Brazilian Aeroplane, focusing on Chorinho and Velha Guarda music style and performing in bars and night clubs of a traditional suburb of São Paulo called Bexiga. The new album "Simetria: Bo Kasper in Brazil" has been released 15 November 2010, on the same day than Eduardo Domingues de Jesus was performing with the Swedish band Bo Kaspers Orkester on their New Orleans tour in Helsinki concert at the Finlandia house. During the launch, on the 29th of November 2010 the Brazilian Aeroplane scored 1st position on the top ten at the Apple's iTunes list for Jazz in Finland