Results for "Vocalist"

Sylvi Lane

Roots: Rehearsing bands, musical instruments and wires all over the place, the stage, the smell of the red velvet curtains, numerous concerts: Great memories of my childhood. I ‘grew up’ in a club, ran by my parents. There I breathed in and out the live atmosphere of music and theatre. Study: Back then it was called: Improvised music- main subject singing; at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. It was fertile soil for my musical and personal growth:a free spirited surrounding. Here I also started writing music: my internal need to create and express. Singer: Aretha Franklin, Chaka Kahn, Gladys Knight, Betty Carter, Miles, Sarah Vaughan: thank you for being so inspiring! My very first band was, YES, a soulband

Solomon Burke

Born: March 21, 1940

Solomon Burke was an important early soul pioneer. On his '60s singles for Atlantic, he brought a country influence into R&B, with emotional phrasing and intricately constructed, melodic ballads and mid tempo songs. At the same time, he was surrounded with sophisticated "uptown" arrangements and was provided with much of his material by his producers. The combination of gospel, pop, country, and production polish was basic to the recipe of early soul. While Burke wasn't the only one pursuing this path, not many others did so as successfully. And he was an important influence upon the Rolling Stones, who covered Burke's "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" on their early albums.  Burke came by his gospel roots even more deeply than most soul stars

Brettina

Brettina grew up in a show business family. Her mother is the gospel singer Leona Coakley-Spring. Her uncles are Theo and Kirk Coakley of the funk, disco, and R&B band T-Connection. Others in her family are actors and musicians too. She was destined for a show business career. She was born in the Bahamas in Nassau, the capital city. She began singing in early childhood. She spent several years of her childhood in Chicago, where she continued singing, acted in local theater, and appeared in national television commercials. Her mother brought her and her brothers back to the Bahamas during her school years, to make sure she didn't lose touch with her island-nation homeland

Amiri Baraka

Born: October 7, 1934

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences on his work ranging from musical orishas such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, and Sun Ra to the Cuban Revolution, Malcolm X and world revolutionary movements, Baraka is renowned as the founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s that became, though short-lived, the virtual blueprint for a new American theater aesthetics

Mavis Staples

Born: July 10, 1939

With her bold new album,”You Are Not Alone,” this legendary vocalist adds a remarkable new chapter to an historic career. Mavis Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award recipient. VH1 named her one of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. This project which is being released more than sixty years after she began singing with her ground-breaking family group, the Staple Singers is the follow-up to “We’ll Never Turn Back,” her acclaimed 2007 collection of songs associated with the civil rights movement, and to 2009’s Grammy-nominated live album “Hope at the Hideout.” It stakes out surprising new territory for Staples by matching her with producer Jeff Tweedy, a fellow Chicagoan who also happens to lead Wilco, perhaps the most respected band working in America today. Tweedy first saw Staples and her band in 2008 at Chicago’s the Hideout when they recorded the live album Hope At The Hideout

Gloria Miller

Smooth yet edgy, mellow yet powerful, sweet yet sexy … just some of the textures that color Gloria Miller’s unique vocal style as she flows seamlessly between genres including Jazz, R&B and Blues. With over 20 years experience in the music industry, you realize from the first listen that Gloria knows how to use her voice to navigate her audience through a maze of emotions. She brings a level of musicianship to her performance that sets her apart from the rest with her impressive vocal range and her heartfelt delivery of every song she sings. There have been many artists who have influenced Gloria’s approach to communicating a song including Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Natalie Cole, Anita Baker, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner

Shawnn Monteiro

Exciting, captivating and completely distinctive” is how most jazz cognoscenti describe Shawnn's pulsating lyric style. Whether in the intimacy of a club date or the glitter of a Las Vegas showroom, Shawnn has delighted audiences from USA to Europe with her highly popular jazz repertoire laced with blues-oriented improvisations. Evident in Shawnn's liveliness of lyrical phrasing and intermittent scat variations is the influences of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan, from whom she draws that inner core of creative energy. But good genes help, too. Shawnn's father was the late renowned bassist Jimmy Woode, veteran of the Duke Ellington band

Nadine Nix

Nadine Nix discovered the sounds of nature for the first time in 1968, her year of birth. After the completion of her childhood studies of classical percussion with distinction, she participated in several musical projects. As an adolescent, she was creative both as a singer and as a percussionist in rock and pop bands. Then she discovered jazz and attended the Academy of Music in Maastricht as a vocalist, after which she obtained a master’s degree in Amsterdam and Enschede.   Her successful first CD, “Bémol 10”, released in 2004, is a mix of jazz moods with very personal arrangements. In order to reach larger audiences, Nadine Nix decided to start her own band with Roman Korolik (bass guitar), Frank Peeters (guitar), Mike Roelofs (keyboards) and Ron van Stratum (drums) in 2007. In her music you will discover jazz, pop and folk influences, which blend into exciting and captivating world music. Besides her activities in her own band, she has also been involved in several projects, both as a lead singer and background vocalist, such as a Tribute to Joe Zawinul, Sam Vloemans’ Bord du Nord, and she performed on stage with the famous vocalist Bobby McFerrin. With her warm and seductive voice and her energetic on- stage presence, the multi-talented singer has obtained a firm position in the international jazz scene

Ashley Faatoalia

Born: June 28, 1984

Ashley Faatoalia is a versatile and inspirational singer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Ashley has been singing for as long as he can remember. He studied voice at Chapman University and since then he has been writing music and performing throughout the Southern California area. Whether it's Opera, Pop, Soul or Gospel, Ashley strives to take his listeners on a journey through the power of song Ashley's most recent engagements include: Candide with The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the historic Hollywood Bowl, The Festival Play of Daniel with Los Angeles Opera, his debut performance with San Francisco Opera as The Crab Man in Porgy and Bess, his debut performance with San Francisco Lyric Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and his performance with Operafestival di Roma as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

Yeahwon Shin

As one of the most in demand session musicians in Korea, Yeahwon Shin has had the opportunity to perform with great musicians such as Kevin Hays, Jeff Ballard, George Garzone, Ben Street, and Egberto Gismonti. Yeahwon is beginning to establish herself as one of the most versatile vocalists on the music scene today. Inspired by the sounds of Brazilian, classical and jazz music, Yeahwon Shin is a new vocal artist with clearly a lot to say. Yeahwon's musical journey began in the suburbs of Seoul, South Korea where her musical talents first showed at the early age of five. In 1999, although never having taken any formal vocal lessons, Yeahwon applied to the Dong-Duk music university