Results for "Vocalist"

Kristen Lee Sergeant

Born: September 11, 1984

Kristen Lee Sergeant is a singer, songwriter, and arranger who has “gone beyond music. She is a conceptual artist…” in the words of author and producer Kabir Seghal. After releasing two albums that both received the distinction of DownBeat Magazine Editor’s Pick, she now brings us “Falling” - her third studio album of largely original material and wholly original vision. In it, Kristen synthesizes her training as a vocalist (from opera to theater to jazz), abilities as a poet, instincts as a songwriter and dramatic sensibility as an arranger to creates a world for us to inhabit in sound through her vision and deft use of her extremely talented ensemble

Rebecca Faiola

Born: May 6

Rebecca is originally from Dallas, Texas and studied music from a young age. As a young singer, she became expert at harmonies singing with her musical mother and in choirs. Her first instrument was piano where she learned the basics. From there she studied classical clarinet for years up through high school onto University of North Texas on a clarinet scholarship. She was also performing in bands singing and doing musical theatre. Moving to SF, she created many groups including the "Spoolie Sisters" who toured and ran in a 2 year run of "Nashional Anthem" an original musical at the 1177 Club atop Nob Hill winning a SF Cabaret Gold Award in the show! She is a mom and sings with her husband Frank, in a band JetBlacq and continues to perform in musical theatre and film

Viva

Born: January

Viva & The Reinforcements deliver spicy cosmopolitan grooves in a show that balances the zest of burlesque with classic standards elegantly renewed. She likes her coffee black, her tequila neat, her men strong and her women stronger. Backed by an ever- changing fleet of the jazz elite, she'll slide her way into your fondest memories with just a flick of her hips. Always thrilling, never the same show twice. Genre: Next Deco Jazz http://www.vivasensation.com/ #seeViva #followthesensation

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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