Results for "Vocalist"

Marcia Lewis

Born: August 8, 1938

A veteran of nine Broadway shows and countless stock and cabaret appearances across the country, Marcia Lewis, 1997 Tony Award nominee - her second Tony nomination - for her performance as Matron Mama Morton in the smash Broadway re-staging of Chicago, has had audiences cheering for more than three decades. Her first solo CD, "Marcia Lewis Nowadays," has just been released on the Original Cast Records label. Marcia made her Broadway musical debut in Hello Dolly playing opposite both Phyllis Diller and Ethel Merman. Her first Broadway dramatic role was in The Time of Your Life at Lincoln Center

Alysa Haas

Born: April 29

Cabaret artist ALYSA HAAS is a native New Yorker. She received her training in voice, musical theater and dance at Webster University and Fordham University and earned a Masters Degree in Speech Pathology at NYU. She studied voice and musical theater with Luba Tcheresky, Don Jones, Ellen Bullinger and Jan Callner. Her ballet instructors included such prominent teachers as David Howard, Peter Martins, Jayne Hillyer, and Mimi Wallace. She also attended master classes with Lucie Arnaz, Betty Buckley, and Adam Arkin, and studied Comedy Improvisation at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Alysa has appeared in community theater productions of Evita, On Your Toes, Oklahoma, Anything Goes, Working, Runaways, and the WestCo Production of Cinderella

Melissa Axel

Melissa Axel studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music and earned a master's in Interdisciplinary Arts from Nova Southeastern University, creating the multimedia stage production The Human Adventure. The song "Fall This Hard" went on to be featured in the award-winning film Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?, and Axel has written custom end credits songs for three short films, including Whitney’s Wedding, winner BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, Focus On Ability Short Film Festival (Australia). Almost 200 Kickstarter backers helped fund a limited edition vinyl release of Axel's debut album, with string arrangements by award-winning composers Matthew Nicholl and Kailin Yong, featuring both Yong and DeVotchKa’s Tom Hagerman on violin

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Katrina Kope

Born: April 10, 1980

Katrina has been involved in the Seattle music scene since 2001 as Katrina Wible and now will continue on as Katrina Kope after getting married in August of 2009. She loves any and all kinds of music as you can see by the different bands she is in at the moment. Katrina was “jazzically” trained at Cornish College of the Arts but is continually learning from and growing with her fellow musicians. Currently, Katrina is performing jazz around the area as the Katrina Kope Quartet for private as well as public events. You can also find her with her lovely band called Soul Kata. Soul Kata performs original Funk/R&B/Pop music as a 9 piece band and had their 2nd CD release at the Triple Door mainstage in August of 2009

Rene Marie

In a span of two decades, 11 recordings and countless stage performances, vocalist René Marie has cemented her reputation as not only a singer but also a composer, arranger, theatrical performer and teacher. Guided and tempered by powerful life lessons and rooted in jazz traditions laid down by Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and other leading ladies of past generations, she borrows various elements of folk, R&B and even classical and country to create a captivating hybrid style. Her body of work is musical, but it’s more than just music. It’s an exploration of the bright and dark corners of the human experience, and an affirmation of the power of the human spirit. René was born in November 1955 into a family of seven children in Warrenton, Virginia

Colin Hay

Ida McBeth

There’s a quiet storm in Kansas City. And it swirls around the captivating, elegant, mystifying and delightful music of singer Ida McBeth. Ida’s musical style is so unique that it is hard to classify. Over the years, her repertoire has included pop-style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes, funk, R&B, gospel and well known standards. Critics have described her as “a jazz singer,” “a blues singer,” “a pop singer” and “a cabaret singer.” Still others have referred to her as “a story teller,” “a professor emeritus of body language,” “a consummate actress” and “the complete entertainer.” A song stylist is the title Ida prefers. By the age of five, Ida McBeth knew she wanted to be a singer

Chaka Khan

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