Results for "Vocalist"

Margret Grebowicz

Anya Malkiel

Anya Malkiel grew up in the former Soviet Union. During her University years in St. Petersburg, she and her sister were well known on the rock scene, singing with local bands Vozrozdenie and Aelita. But Anya's first visit to a jazz club changed her singing career forever: she learned jazz standards by listening to western records and by collaborating with Russian musicians. Then she started singing jazz standards with the band Nevskaya Vosmyorka at Kvadrat jazz club and never looked back. She sang with such great musicians as Vladislav Pankevich, Eduard Moskalyov, Grigoryi Lakshin and others

Gina Kronstadt

Born: October 2

Gina Kronstadt was born in Raleigh North Carolina. Her family was from the South but moved to Salt Lake City Utah after her chemist father was offered a dream job. Gina was surrounded by music constantly while growing up, being that her mother was a lover of Classical music. At the age of 10, she started studying the Violin with members of the Utah Symphony. During her schooling, she was Concertmaster and also singing with both the Madrigals and Jazz band. While studying at the University of Utah and Westminster College, Gina was drawn into Theory, Composition and Arranging. Studying with wonderful professors and having visiting faculty members like Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Clark Terry, Pat Williams, and Tom Scott inspired her to take that passion to the next level.After graduating from college, Gina moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the studios as a Violinist and Singer/Songwriter. Playing on Records, TV and Film (see resume), she still found time to sing for a few jingles, and records before deciding to dive into her own recordings as the Singer, (having studied with Seth Riggs and Robert Edwards) Songwriter, Arranger, Concertmaster and Producer.

Emilie Lesbros

Born: November 30

Emilie Lesbros is the kind of phenomena, composer, poet and multi instrumentalist, too curious, too energetic and too vocal-bound to restrict herself to a single language of vocal interpretation. Emilie Lesbros blurs the boundaries between different genres. She started to play on eclectic musical projects in various formations ranging from rock, punk, to electronic music. At 20 years old she decided to study classical and jazz music at the conservatory. All those experiences leads her to develop an insatiable curiosity regarding sound.

She was Rosa’s vocal lead, a very untypical rock band where Lesbros could explored a real “Unbounderies”way to sing, mixing rock, experimental and classical technics with her voice. (Rosa, The Gift, 2007)

Gabriela Pepino

I wanted to sing a jazzy song/ but they wouldn't let me do it/ Let me do it/ Let me do it with a warm voice, claims Gabriela Pepino in the chorus of Let me do it, song which entitles and starts her first album released by Ultra Music Record Label. Listen to this exquisite composition is enough to understand that Gabriela Pepino asks to do what she does best. Let me do it, the album, shows a singer and songwriter with plain and precocious knowledge of her art. A skilled jazz- themed performer who's talent have been showed in jazz festivals around the world, along with blues, soul and pop music influences

Mark Christian Miller

Cynthia van Roden

Born: March 14

Cynthia van Roden's playfulness, lush contralto and sophisticated delivery will transport you back to another era. This chanteuse, performs a unique blend of vintage jazz, swing, standards, saucy tin-pan alley, blues, bossa nova and French songs. Her band members all sing bringing you 3-part harmonies on many songs.

Additional vocals, voice overs and ukulele performed for Hallmark product and commercials. Volunteer work: Grief counseling with children at Solace House.

Andrew Charles Waite

Born: April 30, 1996

My grandpa was spent the majority of his life gigging as a guitarist while supporting his family. when I was 6 or so I wanted to play guitar like him. My mom said take a year of piano first. Fought it every step. Finally was allowed to try to learn guitar, unfortunately I'm terrible at guitar, and it never stuck. 5th grade rolls along and I pick up trumpet. 8th grade rolls along and the band teacher wants some of the 15 trumpets to switch instruments, I got moved to french horn, which I played for the all of high school. my first exposure to jazz was when I played in the jazz band my 9th grade year, which was still at the junior high and not the high school

Amanda McBroom

Amanda McBroom has been called "...the greatest cabaret performer of her generation, an urban poet who writes like an angel and has a voice to match." Her name first came to the attention of the music public when Bette Midler's version of Amanda's song THE ROSE hit number one all over the world in 1979. But it was Amanda's performance of her own song on the Golden Globes (she won), Grammys (she didn't) and The Tonight Show that launched her career as a singer as well as songwriter. Her songs have have been recorded by the likes of Bette Midler, Leanne Rimes, Barry Manilow, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Anne Murray, Harry Belafonte, Betty Buckley, Stephanie Mills, The Manhattan Transfer, Donny Osmond, the Chipmunks, and the Baby Dinosaurs in LAND BEFORE TIME (she wrote all the songs for 11 Universal Cartoon videos with longtime collaborator Michele Brourman)

Anna Lundqvist Quintet

Bookings: MWW Management, Angie Seegers www.mwwmanagement.com Anna's born in 1977 in Stockholm but she was raised in a small town called Mellerud in west of Sweden. After growing up with classical music, she decided to change direction and became a singer of jazz. After studies at Skurup (Jazzmusician education) she's been working profesionally, since 2000. Anna Lundqvist now lives in Gothenburg. Her quintet is the head project and after three higly claimed releases she's now one of the leading singers and composers of jazz in Sweden. Her second project is the new band Anna Lundqvist Brass Magic. about ALQ: Anna Lundqvist,vocal: Fabian Kallerdahl, piano: Mattias Grönroos, bass: Jon-Erik Björänge, drums: Björn Almgren,saxophone About new release, TEN (release April 2015) Ten years ago singer and composer Anna Lundqvist decided to go on her own musical journey