Results for "Vocalist"

Keri Johnsrud

Born: October 28, 1976

A highly appealing jazz singer with a quietly expressive voice and a deep understanding of the lyrics that she interprets, Keri Johnsrud has been an important part of the Chicago jazz scene for the past 15 years. As Christopher Loudon from JazzTimes has also noted, "Keri Johnsrud is largely about finding the unexpected in the familiar. The bright shimmer of her voice, a crystalline instrument of deceptive simple beauty, defies the depth of her artistry." Now with the recording of her upcoming CD, "This Side of Morning", she is making a major step forward not only as a singer, but as a lyricist and songwriter. Keri was born and raised in Iowa as part of a very musical family

Wendy Bradbury

With a natural ear for harmony, Wendy Bradbury has gravitated to all sorts of music, dabbling in musical theater, classical, barbershop and finally finding a sweet spot in jazz and blues. Whether sultry ballads or lively up tunes she incorporates her own style in every song.

Casey Moir

Born: March 22, 1984

Photographer: Ali Asperheim

Casey Moir is an Australian born vocal-artist, improviser, and composer of experimental music, based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her artistic practice is centered around the extended capabilities of the voice. She enjoys testing and pushing conventional boundaries, exploring how vowels and consonants can be formed, distorted, and manipulated, and how sounds can be shaped and moulded using the tongue, lips, glottis and hands. She combines these somewhat unconventional aspects with other musical aspects such as form, direction, overall shape, structure and movement. She is also keenly interested in the concept of space and room and how these can be investigated in performance, improvisation and composition. This has her composing larger scale works that use a whole room as the scene and that can have musicians and/or audience being ambulatory, changing directions, trajectories and proximities to things, sounds and others.

Casey graduated from The Australian National University in Canberra with her Bachelor of Music Performance, majoring on voice, in 2005. Since moving to Sweden in 2007 she has also completed a Bachelor of Improvisation (2011), and a Master of Experimental Composition (2021), at the Academy of Music and Drama, in Gothenburg.

Marianne Mali

Born: October 12, 1984

Marianne Mali, Musician, Singer, and Venezuela Songwriter. Began his musical career from 4 years old, dabbling in Venezuelan popular music, she plays "Cuatro", guitar and specializes in mandolin, was participant, performer and director of several typical Venezuelan music group. She has represented Venezuela as a mandolin player in national and international festivals, participated in numerous exhibitions of typical music of Venezuela and Portugal, a country with cultural affinity for her. During her education and even in college she created the Foundation "People Who Feels" entity that provide free music instruction to children and adolescents

Angelica Matveeva

Born: August 25, 1985

Angelica Matveeva is a versatile singer, composer and lyricist whose specialty and artistic goal lies in creating and carrying out concept projects. Angelica was born on August, 25th 1985 in Moscow (Russia) to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, has been partly raised in Belgium, started her career in Stockholm (Sweden) and during stays in Italy, Poland, Turkey and Finland collaborated with musicians from these countries. Currently Angelica is based in Tromsø, Norway. Angelica's debut album "Swedish poetry goes jazz" was released in April 2011 and consists entirely of her own compositions on Swedish 20th and 21st century poetry

Olivia Castle

Born: November 13, 1992

Olivia Castle is a UK Jazz vocalist who has just released her debut album ‘Siren Song’. She has had a love of Jazz standards, American Songbook and Easy Listening repertoire since growing up watching her mother perform with a Jazz trio. It was only recently that Olivia discovered the full extent of her family’s history of Jazz performance, learning that her Romanian great-grandfather put together a Jazz band that toured around Europe during the 1920’s. The Padureano Jazz band performed regularly in Madrid and Paris, frequently entertaining the aristocracy and the Spanish Royal family. This Jazz heritage within her family has cemented her love for this kind of music. Olivia has recently graduated with a first class honours degree in Drama and Theatre from Royal Holloway, University of London

Ingrid Nomad

Born: April 28

Ingrid Nomad was born in Ghent (Belgium). Music was not her first choice as a career. She studied ‘Applied Communications’ and began singing after overcoming stage fright by taking classes with Brad Chapman in Los Angeles (US). He has worked with Anita Baker, Quincy Jones and others. She studied classical piano at the School of arts in Ghent and graduated in 1995. Wanting to expand her horizons, she went to the Jazzstudio in Antwerp where she was introduced to jazz music with the likes of Billy Hart. She then formed a jazz quartet with Olivier Collette (piano), Joris De Backer (double bass) and Wouter Van Dyck (drums)

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Alyssa Allgood

Born: September 5, 1992

Alyssa Allgood is an award-winning jazz vocalist, composer, arranger and educator with a compelling voice in the modern jazz landscape. Described as “assured and daring” by Downbeat Magazine and “a model of sophisticated song interpretation” by the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago-based artist boldly weaves soulful storytelling and rich improvisational language through original compositions, captivating arrangements and a lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.

Allgood’s exhilarating fourth album, “From Here”, is due April 19, 2024 on Next Records. Recorded with internationally renowned musicians John Patitucci, Kendrick Scott, Geoffrey Keezer and Greg Ward, the music showcases a modern approach to jazz singing with musical interaction and vocal freedom at its core. The album features 10 original songs which show Allgood reaching a new pinnacle of personal expression, emotional observation and artistic achievement. Her three previous albums — What Tomorrow Brings (Cellar Music, 2021), Exactly Like You (Cellar Music, 2018), and her self-released debut Out of the Blue (2016) — trace the remarkable trajectory of a vocalist admired for the clarity of her instrument, the sureness of her phrasing, the range of her improvising, and the burgeoning depth of her interpretative skills.

April Mae

Biography April Mae & The June Bugs are rising stars in the East Coast music scene. With a string of impressive recent performances, including the Philadelphia Folk Festival and MusikFest, AM&TJB have been garnering recent press, dubbed the “The Breakout Surprise Act” on more than one occasion. January 2015 kicked off with a full page front cover feature story in the Courier Post. In 2014 they were featured in the Burlington County Times, AL.com, and a TV appearance on Time/Warner Cable. “She’s doing stuff that nobody else is doing…with a flair for off-the-wall sound that’s really fresh right now,” says Lon Mickelson, blues promoter with Blues Women International