Results for "Vocalist"

Lissy Walker

Lissy Walker is a jazz singer, but her wide-ranging musical interests set her apart from your average chanteuse. She’s been an actress and singer for most of her life and brings a dramatic sensibility to her jazz vocals. Walker's burnished vocals have a hint of restrained passion that suggest country music, but her phrasing, which dances before and after the beat, is pure jazz.Her low-key approach is folky at times, but raw emotion lurks just beneath the surface, adding an alluring tension to her performances.The material is an eclectic mix of songs by Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Randy Newman, Ray Davies, and Nick Drake. I tend toward happy melodies with sad lyrics or vice versa, tunes that look at both sides of the coin

Katy Bowser

Born: March 2, 1977

KATY BOWSER Katy Bowser is a singer/songwriter residing in Nashville, Tennessee. In high school, Katy was mentored by jazz trumpet player and educator, Anthony Aversano, and performed with a Washington, DC-area jazz combo. She’s had a bug for the music ever since. She graduated from Belmont University with a degree in Music Performance with a Commercial Voice emphasis. She has released three albums and performs and tours extensively in support of her albums. As a writer, co-creator and voice of Coal Train Railroad, Katy’s distinctive style is part of what sets Coal Train Railroad apart from other offerings in the children’s book/music market.

Teddy Pendergrass

Born: March 26, 1950

Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass, Sr. career began when he was a drummer for The Cadillacs, which soon merged with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Melvin invited Pendergrass to become the lead singer after he jumped from the rear of a stage and started singing his heart out. Months later the group signed with Gamble & Huff on the then-CBS subsidiary Philadelphia International Records in 1972. The Blue Notes had hits such as "I Miss You," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody," the two million seller "If You Don't Know Me By Now" and many more. Following personality conflicts between Melvin and Pendergrass, Pendergrass launched a solo career and released hit singles like "The More I Get the More I Want," "Close the Door," "I Don't Love You Anymore," "Turn Off the Lights" and others. His first solo album was self titled Teddy Pendergrass (1977), followed by Life is a Song Worth Singing (1978), Live Coast to Coast and Teddy (1979), 1980's TP and the final Philadelphia International Records album It's Time for Love (1981)

Pat Holley

Born: July 24

Instrument: Vocal Pat Holley began her career as a singer/pianist in the early ‘70s at Danny’s Hideaway in Queens. She continued her career as a full-time singer/pianist and songwriter until she retired from an extended engagement at the then Hotel Manhattan’s Playbill Room. Several years later, she resumed her singing career and continued until 1986, when she then concentrated on more songwriting and arranging for a variety of popular artists. During her singing engagements in the early 70’s, she wrote songs for five commercial recordings, three of which were re- released in 1999 by Universal and MCA Records, including the first song recorded by singer Stephanie Mills (“The Wiz”) I Knew It Was Love

Melinda Hughes

Born: October 31, 1971

Melinda Hughes has her routes in classical music, starring as the title role in more than thirty operas but returned to Jazz and cabaret in 2007 when she formed the satirical Cabaret company Kiss & Tell. She has performed her own sell out show at Pizza on the park London, The Chelsea Arts Club, The Waldorf Astoria, New York, The Al Bustan Festival Beirut as well as many charity events, launches and parties. She specializes in Berlin Cabaret from the 1930's : Spolianski, Hollaender and Kurt Weill and also sings classic standards of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Gershwin and Frank Loesser.

Tim Tamashiro

Born: September 23, 1965

Tim Tamashiro loves jazz, strengths, food, life and new ideas. Many know “Tim Tam” as the national weekend host of Tonic on CBC Radio 2 but Tim is also involved in many other aspects in entertainment. He is a well known speaker and host for events throughout Canada. Sometimes he even sings. Over the years, Tim has released many recordings starting back in 1995 with his debut album “Wiseass Crooner”. This little big band recording started not only his recording career but also the producing career of Dave Pierce who has gone on to produce music for some of the biggest entertainment properties in the world

Connie Lansberg

Many singers profess to be natural storytellers, but few can claim to be published authors too. Jazz singer Connie Lansberg showcases these two areas of her creative output with the release of the album Tsera’s Gift, alongside a novel of the same name. (BHC Press) The record is an infectious and lilting collection of songs, performed by some of Melbourne’s leading musicians.

A longstanding fixture on the Australian jazz scene, Connie’s songs - at various points evoking Blossom Dearie, Madeleine Peyroux, and Carol King - brim with elegantly expressive melodies, and poetic lyrics.

As an author, she loves the long-form, but as a songwriter, she finds it thrilling, to sum up, the difficult, the wonderful, the terrifying, and exhilarating feeling of falling in or out of love in 4-minute soliloquies accompanied by talented musicians

Mila Dores

Born: September 25, 1983

Mila Dores is a jazz singer; experimental musician and composer. Born on 25th of September, 1983 in Porto, Portugal, she began her music studies at the age of six having studied classical piano and singing. Mila has been learning the language of jazz from 2000. The study of traditional jazz led into exploring the avat-garde and experimental approach of the genre as well as contemporary classical music and extended vocal techniques. In parallel to the jazz studies at Leeds College of Music she explored her interest in free jazz and free improvisation. She graduated from the Leeds College of Music Jazz (BA Hons) degree in 2009 where she also studied Northen Indian Classical Music and Improvisation for three years. Over the years she studied under the mentoring of Matthew Bourne, Christophe de Bezenac, Jamil Shariff, Joel Purnell, Ian Shaw and Simon Purcell, among others. ‘With an ear towards contemporary composition and improvisation, Mila is a vocal sculptress - extending the palate of the human voice toward Berberian proportions

Rickie Lee Jones

RICKIE LEE JONES has spent a life time dancing with her muse. She is the most iconic American female singer-songwriter of her time, a woman who outlasted all her adversaries–including youth and self-destruction. A seasoned humility brings her performances an authenticity that only long-enduring musicians achieve.

By the time she nineteen, JONES was living in Los Angeles, waiting tables and occasionally playing music in out of the way coffee houses and bars. All the while, she was developing her unique aesthetic: music that was sometimes spoken, often beautifully sung, and while emotionally accessible, she was writing lyrics as taut and complex as any by the great American poet, Elizabeth Bishop

Mariah Picot

Mariah Picot has spent her life in the arts. “Growing up in a musical family certainly helped”, she says. “We always had family jam sessions and my first public performance was at the age of 5.” She completed a Bachelor of Music, in voice at Queens University, Kingston, On. She then started a professional career in musical theatre, with lead roles in many musicals and cabarets In Toronto and across western Canada. During this time she was also doing extensive theater training with teachers from CAST [Centre for Actors Study in Toronto] in Toronto, and Herbert Bergoff Studio in NYC.” Mariah was a guest soloist with the London [ON] Symphony, and was asked to sing for the Canadian Command Performance at Massey Hall, along with other guests including Jim Carey, Rich Little & Buffy St