Results for "Vocalist"

Lorena del Mar

Born: April 19, 1983

The chameleonic singer and songwriter LORENA DEL MAR is always exploring the connection between music styles through time and improvised music. She has performed at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Leiden Jazz Week, International Galapagar Jazz Festival among others as well as in different jazz venues in New York, The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Since she moved to New York city in 2014, she has joined projects with a more contemporary approach such as the indie jazz ensemble "The Delegation" or the duo "Entre-deux". Lorena released her debut cd in 2015, "My Resistance is Low", a mix of styles from the jazz of the 50s, to cuban music and more ethereal sounds

Camille Bertault

Born: July 28, 1986

Camille Bertault is a young woman of her time with a tangle of solid roots. Her father is an amateur jazz pianist and she has always sung with him on and off. But at the age of eight, she sat down at the piano and set about the whole conservatoire experience (Ravel, Debussy, Chopin, Scriabin) while developing a passion for the vocal stylists of Brazil (Elis Regina, Djavan, Cesar Camargo). And she also listened to Jeff Buckley, Björk, Fiona Apple, Léo Ferré, Barbara, Serge Gainsbourg...

When she was twenty, she rebelled. She shut her scores, moved to a drama class and wrote and played pieces for children. “I started to sing in a cabaret style, somewhere between a narrator and actor. But it was jazz that bewitched me.” By chance she ended up at the Paris Conservatory which gave her solid training in harmony, composition and jazz singing. Camille Bertault discovered the theory behind her spontaneous creations, combined improvisation and her cabaret joys, came back to Ravel via jazz - “the pleasure of combining all the stages I had passed through”.

Jo Harrop

Lateralize Records are immensely proud to announce the release of The Heart Wants, the much-anticipated first self-penned solo album by Jo Harrop. Written and recorded over the last year when the world came to a sudden standstill in the wake of the pandemic, The Heart Wants is an album about love and life, about losing and then finding oneself in the silence after the applause has faded away. Although she has built a reputation as an intuitive interpreter of other people’s songs, Jo Harrop would be the first to admit that she always lacked the confidence to reveal her own songs to the world

Majel Connery

With past lives as an actor, opera singer, and academic, Connery approaches songwriting with an open embrace of diverse influences. Most recently, she wrote songs about porn, periods, and sad fish for 5 episodes of Radiolab’s “Gonads” series, including a Radiolab Live performance at NYU Skirball Center.

While Connery holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a composition degree from Princeton, her writing is deeply influenced by her parents' eclectic cassette tape collection circa 1984, which explains a compositional style part Schubert and part Elvis Costello (that’s a mangled quote from the Wall Street Journal).

Jesse Maclaine

Born: February 8, 1975

Offbeat magazine describes Aural Elixir's unique sound as "...Joni Mitchell’s sly and perceptive confessional meets Fiona Apple’s confrontational doomed romantic, with little hints of Tori Amos’ gonzo earth mother and Carole King’s practical warmth." Aural Elixir is an eclectic musical experience from Jesse Maclaine and the rich sonic tapestry of New Orleans. Pulling from a diverse catalog of distinctive originals, popular covers and obscure classic songs, Aural Elixir delights dancers and music lovers of all ages. While Jesse Maclaine's style is clearly influenced by classical training and jazz sensibilities, she has created a unique sound that is elegant, upbeat, quirky, clever and enchanting

David Francis

David Francis is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes and jazz from the Great American Songbook. On his current album, “David Francis Sings the Songs of the Twenties” (Blujazz Records, 2022), George W. Harris, of Jazz Weekly, says, ‘Francis has a voice with elements of casual Dean Martin, hip Michael Franks and seductive Boz Scaggs’.  

David is a leading contemporary interpreter of songs from the Great American Songbook. He began singing at an early age, and while earning his bachelor’s degree in Music at Combs College, he became a professional bass player

Sylvia Rexach

Born: January 22, 1921

Poetess and songwriter Sylvia Rexach was born on 22 January 1921 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Her life was cut short by cancer but she is remembered for her melodic and delicate romantic songs and poems, performed by some of the best artists of her day and since. After graduation from high school, Rexach dedicated her life to music, playing piano, saxophone and guitar. But she found her real talent lay in poetry and songwriting, composing two her most famous songs, “Di, corazón” and “Matiz de amor”, quite early in her career. During this time, she also composed: “Idilio” which was performed by the most famous Puerto Rican orchestra of the time, led by Rafael Muñoz

Erica Bramham

Born: May 6, 1984

Erica Bramham is a critically acclaimed vocalist, guitarist and composer from Melbourne, Australia. Poetic, inventive and uniquely personal, her work crosses the boundaries between jazz, traditional folk and experimental art music, showcasing her finesse as a lyricist and a captivating performance style that blends song with spoken word and extended vocal technique. In 2016 Bramham released her debut album, Twelve Moons, a song cycle that blurred the boundaries between folk and improvised music. The album was named alongside David Bowie and Vijay Iyer as one of the top ten releases of the year on All About Jazz, with critic Phil Barnes calling it "a fine record of forward looking modern vocal jazz that shows a way to make interesting, lyrically inventive improvised music” and signalling Bramham as a talent to watch. In January 2017 Erica embarked on The Song-Chain Project, an ambitious creative mission to compose, record and share a new piece of music every day for 365 days

The Blind Boys of Alabama

Born: 1939

The Blind Boys of Alabama have the rare distinction of being recognized around the world as both living legends and modern-day innovators. They are not just gospel singers borrowing from old traditions; the group helped to define those traditions in 20th century and almost single-handedly created a new gospel sound for the 21st. Since the original members first sang together as kids at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the late 1930s (including Jimmy Carter, who leads the group today), the band has persevered through seven decades to become one of the most recognized and decorated roots music groups in the world. Touring throughout the South during the Jim Crow era of the 1940s and 1950s, the Blind Boys flourished thanks to their unique sound, which blended the close harmonies of early jubilee gospel with the more fervent improvisations of hard gospel

Vesela Morova

Born: March 8, 1987

Growing up in my native Bulgaria, I was exposed to various musical influences due to the eclectic taste of my parents. Being the vocalist of a local jazz and pop band revealed to me the magic of stage performance, and it became my greatest passion. The teen years I spent singing both arias and jazz standards, being a soloist in choirs and performing with my jazz band at a festival in Langnau, Switzerland. I searched for new musical and cultural horizons and found myself doing a B.A. at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Academically I focused on Political Science, but always did music on the side, becoming the vocalist of the college two jazz ensembles, and studying jazz voice, piano, and improvisation with Kallin Johnson, James Allard, and Paul Buono