Results for "Vocalist"

Marithe Van der Aa

Born: August 5

Marithé Van der Aa is a young jazz vocalist. She was born in Belgium, but spent most of her childhood in England, where she studied at a school in Brentwood, Essex. In these early years of her life, she was active as a student at the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and as a member of a youth choir. After she had moved back to Belgium, she started taking both singing and music theory lessons at a music academy. After doing that for three years, she decided to start taking private, classical singing and piano lessons as well. At the age of sixteen, she started art school (HKJ in Hasselt), where she studied jazz vocals

Chloe Borthwick

Born: February 26

Chloe is an award-winning singer/songwriter from the Hudson Valley. With a unique voice, mature sound and improvisational skills, she effortlessly blends jazz R&B, and pop. Drawing inspiration from Amy Winehouse, Sara Bareilles, Fiona Apple, Tori Kelly, Emily King, and Esperanza Spalding, she possesses an authenticity and yearning in her music that is both haunting and powerful. Chloe was recently selected as one of only 30 jazz musicians in the country to participate in the elite GRAMMY Jazz Sessions ensemble. As part of the 8 member choir, she will perform at various events in Los Angeles during GRAMMY week including nominee events and the GRAMMY after-party

Don Paul

Born: July 14, 1950

DON PAUL has led or produced 29 Albums since 1988 and written many more than 30 Books since his first novel, Among Ashes, at age 16 in 1966. His current Band is Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons (DPRAM) with ROGER LEWIS, KIRK JOSEPH, DON VAPPIE, HERMAN LEBEAUX and ALEXEY MARTI and their 2025 Album is the sequence of 12 Tracks that are also meant to serve for a Stage-Show, LOUISIANA STORIES. THIERY DE CLEMENSAT wrote about LOUISIANA STORIES on January 2 for Paris Move: ‘This is an artistic masterpiece, worthy of inclusion among those albums—or in this case, double albums—we deem essential.’

Great musicians have for 37 years graced Don Paul with their collaboration

Johanna Elina Sulkunen

Johanna Elina Sulkunen is a Finnish vocalist who has been based in Copenhagen since 2009. She has released two albums on her own name Johanna Elina. She is now topical with her new genre-crossing album 'Belonging' (Eclipse/ DME) that was Nominated as the Best Vocal Album (Grammy) 2016 in Denmark. The album was finalized at Sundlaugin studio in Iceland, with Birgir Jón Birgisson. Birgir has been working with many great international artists (e.g. Sigur Rós.) Musicians: Anders Filipsen (DK) - keys, Håkon Berre (NO) - d, Henrik Olsson (SE) - g. Her frst album on her own name 'Our Garden' (Eclipse) was released in 2011

Francesco Forges

Born: December 25, 1961

Singer, composer and flutist, was born in 1961 in Milan, Italy, where he still lives.

Graduate at the Conservatoire “G. Verdi” (Milan, Italy), he was formed and matured in different musical areas as progressive rock, jazz, opera, ancient and contemporary music.

He dedicated himself to jazz and vocal improvisation studies, with artists such as: Maggie Nicols, Bob Stoloff, Jay Clayton, André Minvielle, Fabrizio Cassol.

He worked also as a socio-educationalist, singing teacher and chorister.

His eclecticism has led him to collaborate, among others with: Zètema Orchestra (with Steve Lacy, Glenn Ferris, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paolo Fresu), Cantosospeso Choir (with Nana Vasconcelos, Miriam Makeba), Bruno Tommaso, Gianni Lenoci, Ferdinando Faraò & Artchipel Orchestra (also with Mike & Kate Westbrook), Micrologus Ensemble, Chorus of the Teatro Regio in Turin (under the direction, among others, of Semyon Bichkov, Pinchas Steinberg), Athestis Chorus (under the direction, among others, of Myun Wun Chung, Jeffrey Tate), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Piccolo Teatro (Milan).

Monty Aidem

MONTY AIDEM – first entertained audiences on the radio in major cities including Atlanta, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, and during that time he also wrote topical comedy material for leading radio personalities across America. Eventually, he moved to Los Angeles and became a TV Comedy Writer. His TV writing career started with a job on a revival of the series “Laugh-In”, which introduced a little-known performer named Robin Williams. Monty went on to write on various major TV specials, including The Dean Martin Roasts. Soon, he became a staff writer for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show

Christine Melton

Born: December 26

Christine Melton is a native of Philadelphia and graduate of The Theater and Communications Department of Temple University. She studied Jazz Improvisation with Ron Carter and John Hendricks. Her singing debut was with Byard Lancaster performing in Philly, France, Belgium and Jamaica. She has performed in New York with Johnny Johnson and His Swing Tones, Pianists; Rahn Burton, Frank Owens, Bertha Hope, and Rudel Drears; Voice and Guitar Duets with Kelvyn Bell and Grammy Nominee/MOBO Winner, Ronny Jordan. She has performed Opera and Original Works with Dr. Gregory Hopkins, Reggie Workman and his All-Star Big Band.

Malou Beauvoir

Malou Beauvoir — Artist Bio Haitian-American performing artist Malou Beauvoir is a captivating, highly emotive singer-songwriter and actor who brings to her artistry the unique amalgamation of her multi-cultural influences and experiences. A citizen of the world, she has lived in the US, Europe and Haiti, and traveled extensively; each culture she has encountered has impacted and informed her in different ways, reinforcing her openness to different perspectives and forms of spirituality. Born in Chicago to Haitian parents, Malou was raised in New York, growing up with brother and rock phenomenon Jean Beauvoir (The Ramones, Kiss)

Shye Ben Tzur

Residing in both India and Israel, Shye Ben Tzur is an Israeli singer and musician who composes qawwalis in Hebrew, Urdu, and Hindi, combining Sufi devotional music with Western elements. Born in New York City, Ben Tzur became interested in Indian music after seeing Indian classical musicians Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain perform in Jerusalem. He traveled to India and began studying Indian classical music, and eventually began to compose qawwali music in his native language, Hebrew. He regularly collaborates with Rajasthan folk musicians, and has worked with famous musicians such as Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, Spanish guitarist Fernando Perez, Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco, and others

Eva Scholten

Born: November 17, 1986

Eva Scholten Talented jazz singer Eva Scholten (’86) completed her studies at the Jazz departement of the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2010. With her phenomenal timing and improvisations in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn she provides her very own counterpoint to the musicians around her. As a singer and arranger in vocal group ‘YesSister,JazzSister’ who just released their second album ‘Crazy People’, she’s been playing all the main Jazzfestivals in the Netherlands. This year she wil sing with Hot Club the Piracicaba at the biggest gypsyjazz festival in Brasil; Festival de Jazz Manouche de Piracicaba. Gypsyjazz formation Eva sur Seine, consisting of Eva Scholten & the Thomas Baggerman trio, performed at Europe’s greatest Django Reinhardt stages: Django Reinhardt Memorial Festival Augsburg (DE), Django in Liberchies (BE), Django Reinhardt festival Samois (FR)