Results for "Vocalist"

Marva Hicks

Sue Rynhart

Vocalist and composer Sue Rynhart BA (Mus) MA Mus (Hist) ARIAM. Sue's debut album 'Crossings' (Songs for Voice & Double Bass) with Dan Bodwell was nominated 'Best Jazz Album' in the Irish Times Ticket Awards 2014. and her new album 'Signals' is receiving International critical acclaim from publications and radio including; The Irish Times, American website 'All About Jazz', Folk Radio UK,  Scandinavian Jazz Review 'Salt Peanuts', RTÉ and BBC. In performing with Dylan Rynhart's Fuzzy Logic Ensemble, she has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the Composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary Music Centre and and has performed on BBC Radio with the Choir of Christchurch Cathedral Dublin. She has been featured extensively on Róisín Ingle's Irish Times podcast 'Róisín meets', The Blue of the Night RTÉ Lyric fm and on Bernard Clarke's award winning radio programme 'Nova' on RTÉ Lyric fm. Sue has performed her music at many festivals such as the Manchester Jazz Festival, Electric Picnic, Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, Drogheda Arts Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Waterford New Music Week, Liverpool Irish Festival at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool Three Festival Tall Ships Regatta, Jazzy Colors Festival Paris and in the Main auditorium in the National Concert Hall Dublin for the Perspectives Jazz festival as a support act for the late ECM Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.

Mechelle Jayne McClenton- LaChaux

Born: February 4, 1953

Agata Kubiak

Born: February 15, 1987

London-based Polish singer and violinist Agata Kubiak fuses Jazz, Classical, Rock, Folk, Sung Poetry and her own Polish roots to create music that is genuinely unlike anything else. Her sound is first and foremost emotionally-driven, not afraid to show vulnerability or passion, whether singing in English or Polish. Agata’s background is exceptionally diverse, touring across Poland in a punk band aged 15, studying Classical music at the London College of Music, and working as a session violinist in London. Her two quartets, string and jazz, come together for her debut recording, released in May 2014.

Matt Tolentino

Matt Tolentino, who shares a birthday with Fred Astaire, was born May 10, 1985 in Dallas, TX. He was not born 80 years too late—rather, he is placed in the perfect time—the present day—to preserve the music of generations past, to bring the music of yesterday to the modern audience of today. Music has always been at the center of Matt's life. His father played saxophone and piano in his younger days, in a band comprised of neighborhood boys. Through his dad he first learned to love jazz, and at the age of 7 claimed Henry Busse to be one of his favorites. When he was 8, he was given a copy of the album, 'Shakin' the Blues Away,' recorded by the Coffee Club Orchestra, the then-16 piece house band of radio's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' The album was comprised of pop tunes from the 1920s and early 1930s, and was his first exposure of the niche music he now performs

Monika Njava

Celebrated across Madagascar as the national diva, Monika Njava was lead singer in the prize-winning group Njava, recording two critically acclaimed albums for EMI. She has recorded with platinum-selling Deep Forest and tours with the band. Haizina, a world-pop solo album, was recently released on Anio Records. Singing in several Malagasy dialects, Monika draws on traditional tales and everyday village life for her lyrics. She also addresses contemporary themes, including violence against women, political corruption, and the environmental devastation of her country.

Rändi Fay

Born: May 28

Rändi Fay is a recent addition to the singing and songwriting scene in Wisconsin where her rich vocals and versatile style have brought her in high demand as a feature vocalist. After an injury in the early 2000's brought an end to her veterinary career and her children grew up, she found time to pursue her passion in music production and performance. Since 2005, She has been a regular soloist with several acclaimed performing groups in Wisconsin, including the Dudley Birder Chorale, the Allouez Village Band, Wisconsin Choral Artists, the Big Band Reunion and Daddy D's Dinner Theater

Malonie Carre

Malonie Carre is a Canadian Contemporary Jazz Singer currently residing in Cancun, Riviera Maya, Mexico. Performing with Jazz artists from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba including Gianny Laredo, Mario Patron and Esteban Herrera, Corporate Private Events, International Jazz Festivals and Jazz Sessions in Mayan Palace, Wine Bar. Current Album Debut 2014 "Forever" Malonie Carre Quartet with Gianny Laredo. "Our main objective is to bring Vocal Jazz back into the modern sound of music."

Ethel Lee

Singing is a passion for Ethel. She has loved to sing for as long as she can remember. Born in Evergreen, Alabama as the oldest daughter of four children to Reverend W.J. Sims and Helen Sims, she graduated from A. & M. University in Huntsville, Alabama. Like many performers she started singing in church as a child, and was a member of the choir in both high school and college. Ethel was the first female and first African American police officer to be hired on the West Springfield Police force in West Springfield, MA. In 2003 after serving 28 years on the force she retired, and although she was offered two jobs afterwards, instead she welcomed the opportunity to focus solely on her singing career. There were three performers that influenced Ethel's singing career as a teenager

Rhiannon Giddens

IThe acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019). Giddens’s forthcoming album, They’re Calling Me Home, is a twelve-track album, recorded with Turrisi in Ireland during the recent lockdown; it speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical “call home” of death, which has been a tragic reality for so many during the COVID-19 crisis