Results for "Vocalist"

Oxana Voytenko

Born: May 19, 1985

Oxana Voytenko is an amazing jazz vocalist and composer. She first became interested in music at the age of 9, taking vocal lessons, which resulted in the development of her startling 3,5 octave range. She also received classical guitar training at an early age and by the time she was a teenager, had started taking part in various local and international concerts, festivals and competitions. In 2010 she enrolled in the Academy of Music in Hanover, Germany, where she has been sharpening her musical abilities in singing, improvising, composing and arranging under the guidance of Romy Camerun with heavy influence from Klaus Heidenreich, Herbert Hellhund and Steve Sinkovics and Efrat Alony. During this period of time Oxana recieved the scholarship from Berklee school of music for the program ''Performance'', took part in master classes and workshops with great musicians such as John Taylor, Ack van Rooyen, Jiggs Whigham, Florian Weber, Diana Torto, Peter Eldridge, Theo Bleckmann, Fred Hirsch, Efrat Alony, Michael Schiefel, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebmann, Steve Lehman, Joakim Milder, Jason Moran and many others. In 2011 she founded the Oxana Voytenko Jazzquartet, for which she composes and makes arrangements of jazz-standarts and modern compositions

Thulla Wamberg

Born: September 6, 1963

Discography: • Thulla (StarHouse 1999) • The Spirit of Yesterday (Cope Records, 2001) • Double Up, Please! (Cope Records, 2002) • EvergreenMachine (Cope Records, 2003) • Thullabandulla Band: Life is a Car (Cope Records, 2005) • Retro Sisters & Schwanzen Sänger Knaben (Focus Recording, 2007) • Bleu: (with Alain Apalloo) Blue City (Cope Records, 2008) • The Spirit of Ice (QvintusArt 2009) • 7 Shortcuts to Change (with celloplayer Halina Wigocka) (LifeChangingListening 2010) Thulla (Thulla Christina Wamberg), is a Danish folk/pop and jazz singer. Autodidact in music, words, images and sound, mainly influenced, as she states, by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Marilyn Monroe and Björk.[citation needed] She had several great Jazz musicians from Denmark in her bands, the Thulla's Organic Orchestra (Ben Besiakov, (p), Dan Hemmer (ho), Hugo Rasmussen (b), Frands Rifbjerg (d), Lisbeth Diers (perc), and 2005 the Thullabandulla Band (Dan Hemmer (keys), Guffi Pallesen (b), Rune Harder Olesen (perc)

Helle Henning

Helle Henning is a singer, composer, and music educator based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Adina Nyree

Adina Nyree is Poetry... living in Soul... growin' up Funk... mellowing in Blues. An album and artist conscious of the world around and inside her. Planted in nutrient rich soil of understanding, love and hope, Certified Organic seeks to grow on the listener, intertwining with mind, body and soul. Adina Nyree uses her work to give voice to the voiceless, as well as social commentary on global issues. Her works include, but are not limited to, topics such as American teenage pregnancy and the conflict diamond trade in Africa. She is the author of a self-published chapbook, “Read My Lips: The Poetical Ramblings of an Insanely Aware Girl”. She is the former creative writer and performing artist in William B

Ashley Pezzotti

Born in Queens, New York, 23 year old vocalist Ashley Pezzotti discovered her love for music when her Dominican father would sing her classic Spanish songs to sleep. This fascination of music continued to grow, and at the young age of 4 years old she began her musical journey by taking classical voice lessons. Ashley continued to study music throughout high school and attended Miami Arts Charter School. In her time there, she was selected to participate in the GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles (in both 2013 & 2014), and was named a YoungArts winner in Jazz and Popular voice categories. At only 16 years old Ashley performed on national television with country star Keith Urban at the American Country Awards for a viewing audience of over 5 million people

Nymphya

Born: June 25

California-based NYMPHYA is an Ethereal Baroque Pop / Folktronica Art-Pop recording artist / producer whose music is lightly suffused with Worldbeat, Classical and Avant-garde. Her Art-Pop style is best described as a stirring collage of eclectic beats, soaring vocals, haunting soundscapes, and captivating samples mixed with acoustic and electric instruments. Nymphya's lyrics, inspired by Nature and the Mystical, are most often philosophical or transpersonal, and transport the listener to a mystical land or a place of deep reflection ... “more of an immersion than a listening session” wrote one of her fans. Prior to launching NYMPHYA, Valentina O has appeared throughout the United States as an opera singer (NYCO and SF Opera), actor (Magic Theater), performer and musician, guesting on numerous soundtracks for television, film and commercials (Time/Life Warner, IMAX, and Garfield), on multiple CD projects for recording artists,(Sky Cafe and Royal Fingerbowl) backing up John Cale (The Velvet Underground) on the Tonight Show, appearing on MTV with her group Screaming Divas, and opening for Todd Rundgren at the Fillmore in San Francisco, for George Benson at Villa Montalvo, and Dana Carvey at the Shoreline Ampitheatre. NYMPHYA has released three albums: Her all original debut, DREAM DANCE, in December 2017, her all-acoustic anthology of Kate Bush cover songs, NAKED KATE, in December 2019, and her sampler 6 song EP CURIOS in October 2021

Abby Lee

Abby Lee is a jazz and cabaret singer based in Philadelphia, PA. Until recently, she performed under her married name, Abby Lee Mosconi. She has a powerful voice and impeccable technique that has attracted attention at recent gigs such as the Cabaret Festival at Cornelia Street Underground and the annual “Comfort and Joy” Christmas Concert at the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, both in Philadelphia, and the Cornelia Street Café in New York City. Growing up in a musical household, Lee was influenced by the jazz standards and musical theatre showtunes her mother played on piano at their home in Vermont

Jeannie Taylore

In 1987, Jeannie Taylore, an actress (most notably on the enormously popular show EastEnders) and singer, went into a studio in London for the all day recording session that became ROUGH DIAMOND. The backing musicians, led by Big band veteran Billy Amstell, laid down the music for songs ranging from Jazz ("What A Difference A Day Makes") to Country ("By The Time I Get To Phoenix""), Pub favorites ("I Wanna Go To Heaven" & "Let Me Call You Sweetheart") to Gospel ("The Old Rugged Cross") and the inspirational closer "You'll Never Walk Alone." Jeannie was in school when her classmate built a crystal radio that captured the airwaves ("Pirate radio", she calls it) and she heard music from America - The Platters and Jerry Lee Lewis- stand out in her memory

Louis Apollon

"Louis Apollon has an angelic, magical quality to his voice. It’s the kind of voice that makes you just want to relax, sit and listen forever. Hearing him sing is a healing. I’ve been in the music biz for a long time and I am convinced that Louis has a really special gift that will one day carry him to stardom. If you haven’t heard him, I urge you to run, don’t walk, to see him and buy his recordings so that one day you can say that you were a fan before he became a star.” ~ Janice Pendarvis - Singer, College Professor, Activist Louis Apollon is a Boston-based Jazz-Folk Singer-Songwriter whose stories celebrate human imperfection, combining uplifting musicality with a soothing, yet energizing vibe that represents his own infectious positivity

Ami Yamasaki