Results for "Vocalist"

Melanie Mitrano

Melanie Mitrano is a singer-songwriter whose vocal and compositional styles span many genres from jazz to classical, avante-garde, and Broadway. "All Things Gold," her most recent album, features "straight-up acoustic vocal jazz in a champagne glass – swinging, clean, cool and refined." To date, six of the songs on the disc have won compositional awards. Brazilian music also factors heavily into Melanie's artistic profile. Fluent in Portuguese, she performs Brazilian standards and also pens her own Portuguese-language songs. Melanie is a member of and three-time grant recipient from the New York Women’s Composers and a winner of numerous composition awards from the Songwriters Association of Washington, ASCAP, Billboard, and the Summit City Art Song Festival

Scott Miller

Born: 1968

SCOTT MILLER Feisty, funny singer/guitar-slinger Scott Miller is not a simple study. Raised on a cattle farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where he expects to return before too long, he writes songs full of rural imagery, and his trademark is the mule. But he also has a degree in Russian and Soviet Studies from William & Mary and can write a rock song with the best of them. Miller is not much like anybody else we know of. Fiercely independent, he has added graphic artist/fundraiser and entrepreneur to his well-established achievements of singer/songwriter/ace picker/bandleader. He started this latest release, For Crying Out Loud, by demoing up a fresh batch of songs on his trusty old Marantz hard-disc recorder

Solveig Slettahjell

Solveig Slettahjell is one of the most expressive and truly unique singers there is. After several years as one of Norways most appreciated artists, Solveig are about to establish herselves permanently in the rest of Europe. Slow Motion Orchestra has been her main project since they did their first concert together at the Osloclub Blaa in 2001. This concert was recorded and released as their selv titled debut album the same year. Since then the Slow Motion Orchestra have released 6 more albums. The last one, ”Tarpan Seasons” was released in 2009 to massive positive response, and was followed up by a major European tour the following years

Megan Lynch

Born: 1965

Megan Lynch hails from South Pasadena, CA. She's a two decade veteran of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, who can go from singing a Kurt Weill art song one moment to singing ‘Rawhide’ in Swedish the next. She uses a full palette of thrums, yelps, croons, yodels, growls and ululations in order to paint the picture called for by the song. She is equally at home singing her original compositions, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway standards, rock, country, blues, light opera, and various world musics.

Louise Tobin

Born: November 11, 1918

Documenting Her Place in the History of Jazz Texas-native Louise Tobin (b.1918) has a remarkable story to tell about her life in jazz. Exhibiting vocal talent at a very early age, by 1934 she was performing throughout Texas with orchestras directed by Hyman Charninsky, Ligon Smith, and Art Hicks, the latter of which was where she first met future husband, Harry James. In 1939, shortly after James left Benny Goodman to form his own band, Tobin replaced Martha Tilton as Goodman's primary vocalist. A divorce in 1943 left Tobin solely in charge of their two children. After they left home for college in the early 1960s, George Simon invited her to perform with Louis Armstrong at the Newport Jazz Festival, where she met clarinetist and former Glenn Miller Band member, Peanuts Hucko, to whom she married and performed with until shortly before his death in 2003

Luna Zegers

Luna´s musical path is like a journey. Born in the Netherlands in a musical family she listens to all sorts of music, but the jazz that her father listens to has her special attention. In 2010 she finishes her musical studies in jazz singing at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with the final grade "cum laude" (a 9). She travels several times to the United States where she takes singing lessons with Theo Bleckmann and composition lessons with Bill Markovitz (Manhattan School of Music). Furthermore her curiosity brings her to India, where she studies south Indian singing in Bangalore, which puts her subsequently on the path of flamenco song, being the ages old tradition of Indian music one of the roots of this Spanish musical style. Luna travels to Seville in Spain to emerge herself in flamenco and feels deeply moved by the raw expression of flamenco singing, in which she recognizes both deep sadness and intense joy of life. A couple of years later she moves to Barcelona (Spain) where she is accepted in the conservatory "Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña" (ESMUC) as the first foreigner ever in flamenco singing, studying with flamenco singer José Miguel Vizcaya "Chiqui de la Linea"

Lucy Ward

Born: April 5, 1983

Lucy hails from the small pie-eating, rugby-playing town of Wigan, firmly planted in the north-west of England. She was raised on the music of Frank Sinatra and Doris Day and skipped to school singing 'I Got Rhythm' rather than stomping along to the sounds of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' like most kids her age. “This didn't really help my cool factor” says Lucy. “I remember my mother trying to teach me the words to Greenday songs in an attempt to help me fit in” needless to say, it didn't really work. But it wasn't long before Lucy realised she didn't really want to fit in. “I’ve always seen my life as a musical, I have a soundtrack that follows me around” Sitting in her bedroom as a child singing along to Doris Day and Judy Garland Lucy found a way to express herself through the music she loved. “I have always sung

Rebecca Dale

Born: November 17, 1976

Born in the UK, Rebecca spent her formative years learning classical piano, voice and alto saxophone becoming an active participant in local choirs, bands and winning festivals. During her early teens, Rebecca discovered her love for jazz on a cinema trip to see “When Harry Met Sally” with the voices of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald interjected throughout the film. She then began to explore other jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan, as well as many soul legends such as Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. Rebecca went on to complete her studies in Psychology and Business, and started working in the business world, whilst discovering her most important influence to date: Eva Cassidy

Tianna Hall

Born: April 18, 1980

Tianna Hall is a 29 year old vocalist in Houston, Texas and former titleholderof the Miss America Organization. She attended the University ofHouston where she majored in Vocal Performance and workedprofessionally in musical theatre and opera for many years before focusingher craft on vocal jazz.

She was mentored by composer, arranger and jazz pianist Paul Englishwho helped her begin her career in jazz in 2004. She then quickly becameHouston's busiest & most sought after jazz vocalist.

Past performance venues include Minute Maid Park for the HoustonAstros, Robertson Stadium for the Houston Dynamo, Jones Hall for theProgressive Forum's presentation of both Garrison Keillor & Frank Rich,Hobby Center for the Performing Arts' Theater District Open HousePresentation for the City of Houston, two appearances on the late nightHouston Television Variety show for the arts The After Party with ErnieManouse.

Joyce E. Yuille

Joyce Yuille has had a pretty interesting life in which music has played a major part in someway. Starting as a runway model she eventually found her true path…The union between her soul and God given talent as a singer. Joyce has had the chance to work with many well-known Italian and international artists such as Paolo Conte, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Laura Pausini, Elio e Le Storie Tese, Andrea Mingardi, The Blues Bros. Band, Eddie Floyd, Ronan Keating, Sister Sledge and renown disco diva Gloria Gaynor with whom she has had a continuous role as a backing singer during her Italian and European performances