Results for "Vocalist"

Eugenie Jones

Born: February 3

Eugenie Jones is an acclaimed American jazz singer-songwriter and producer known for a magnetic stage presence and a voice that Paris Move magazine hails as "one of the most beautiful in the United States." Credited with a talent that "elevates everything she touches," Jones has carved a unique path in the industry, beginning her professional vocal career only after earning an MBA and working in nonprofit marketing. 

While Seeking solace following the 2008 death of her mother, Jones entered the Seattle jazz scene to carry on a part of her mother. Since then, she has released six celebrated albums, including her latest, EUGENIE, which charted on the Jazz Week Top 50 for 25 weeks and peaked at #4. A two-time winner of the Earshot Jazz Vocalist of the Year award, she made history when Black Lace Blue Tears became the first vocal release to win Earshot’s Recording of the Year. 

Beyond the stage, Jones is a Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame inductee and a recipient of the Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Hero award recipient. She is the founder of the nonprofit Music for a Cause and as served as executive producer of the annual Jackson St Jazz Walk since 2017. With songwriting skills favorably compared to those of Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone and with over 30 original compositions to her credit, she has recorded with legends such as Reggie Workman, Julian Priester, Bobby Sanabria, Bernard Purdie, and Lonnie Plaxico, consistently delivering what critics call "beautifully grown up and real" jazz.

Previous performances have included Dazzle Jazz Club/Denver, the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Jazz Forum/NY, Earshot Jazz Festival/Seattle, Scat Jazz Lounge/Ft. Worth, Pangea Supper Club/ NY, The Blue Llama/Ann Arbor, The Velvet Note/ATL, Minton’s Playhouse/NY, National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Mr. Tipple’s/San Francisco, and many others.

Madeline Kole

Madeline Kole is a vocalist, bassist , and bandleader. She has made music her full time career since 1975. Madeline started playing guitar and singing when she was 10 years old. From her earliest days she knew she wanted to be a musician.. Her father used to shuttle her to her very first gigs at bowling alleys, restaurants, and local venues. When she was 14 she switched to electric bass. This is when she found her niche........ BOTH SINGING AND PLAYING standards. The songs of the Great American Songbook became the focus of her attention and talent. When Madeline was 19 years old, she put her bass down and embarked on a solo career as a featured vocalist

Tina Fabrique

When you get to know Tina Fabrique, it is easy to understand how her personal dedication, talent and determination have guided her and helped her to reach the goals that once seemed only childhood dreams. From growing up in Harlem, or the responsibilities of young motherhood, to midtown recording studios and New York City Cabarets, Tina has built a career as an actress and singer respected by her peers and in demand by playwrights, producers and directors alike. Equally at home in musicals on Broadway: "Noise/Funk", "Ragtime", and others...or straight dramatic roles such as: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Glass Menagerie", "The Old Settler"

Teofilovic Brothers

Teofilovic Twins, Ratko and Radisa, are, in every meaning of the word, unique performers of ancient Serbian and Balkan music. During their fifteen years of preparations - before they finally decided to break the silence and appear on European scene - they have solved the "mystery of the second voice," and found long lost harmonies of traditional singing. Their debut album "Cuvari sna" ("Dream Keepers"), released 1998 was the first one of the future series of four albums, that would complete the initial circle. Teofilovic Twins have been making recordings for the National Radio and Television since 1994 and up to now have recorded 4 CD's

Beata Przybytek

Born: January 26, 1979

An outstanding vocalist, pianist and composer. She is widely acknowledged as one of the most intriguing Polish voices. After graduating from Public Music High School in Bielsko-Biala in the piano class, she continued her education at the University of Music in Katowice where in 2004 she graduated with distinction from vocal studies at Jazz and Contemporary Music Department where she is currently a member of the faculty.. In 2002 during International Jazz Vocalists Meetings in Zamość (Międzynarodowe Spotkania Wokalistow Jazzowych in Zamość) she received Grand Prix. Her career moved on instantly- in 2003 her debut album You Don’t Know What Love Is (Radio Katowice/Jazz Forum) was released

Grace Garland

GRACE GARLAND's passion and energy on Stage, earned her the description: "The TINA TURNER of JAZZ" Ms. Grace Garland is CHAPTER 12 in the Book TASTY JAZZ JAMS FOR OUR TIMES by Debbie Burke, about Jazz Musicians/Vocalists including Bobby Sanabria, Houston Person, Christian McBride!:) #AwardWinner GRACE GARLAND- Best Indie Song (Fall 2019)-CLOUZINE International Music Award,“Lovers Never Le (LIVE)” Producers: GRACE GARLAND/AlexanderGureev, Music AND Lyrics Written by: GraceGarland/DOckert GRACE GARLAND received a 2019 Global Music Silver medal for ALBUM Grace Garland-LADY G!; 2017 Global Music Award-SILVER MEDAL-female Jazz vocals for her original song "I'LL CRY LATER"; 2018 Global Music Award-SILVER MEDAL-lyrics/songwriter for "BEFORE YOU FALL ASLEEP"! Both songs were Co-written/Co-Produced by Ms

Lisa Young AU

Born: September 21

Lisa Young is well known to World and Jazz Music listeners as a creative vocal stylist and improviser, incorporating Indian and African elements in her work. A longtime student of maestro Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani in Chennai, India, Lisa specializes in "Konnakol" - South Indian vocal percussion. She has studied South Indian music since 1994, both in Australia and in India. In 2010 she received the Monash-Pratt Post Graduate Award for her PhD Music Performance candidature at Monash University. Lisa Young Quartet's album "Grace" won the prestigious "Bell award" for "Best Australian Vocal Jazz Album" in 2007

Sarah Elizabeth Charles

Emilia Martensson

Emilia Mårtensson is a London based Swedish/Slovenian vocalist and composer of considerable repute. Since graduating from Trinity College of Music, Greenwich in 2007, Emilia has built a well- deserved reputation as one of the most exciting young vocalists on the UK Jazz scene. Her gently expressive voice and highly personal compositions are firmly rooted within the folklore and countryside of her native southern Sweden, adding to the mystique and allure of a distinctive and truly original artist. Her critically acclaimed contributions (both as vocalist and lyricist) to Jazz’s newest stars Kairos 4Tet no doubt helped them bring home a 2011 MOBO Award, while her distinctive voice led The Observer to deem her ‘The New Face of British Jazz 2012′

Molly Ringwald

Long before she became known as a Golden Globe-nominated actress, Ringwald was singing. She started performing with her pianist father’s jazz band when she was three and she has never stopped. “I had quite the musical repertoire,” she recalls with a laugh. “It was pretty much traditional jazz but there was some Bessie Smith and Helen Kane, the original Betty Boop.” Talk with Ringwald for even a short amount of time and it’s clear her grasp of jazz and its history comes from a lifelong study of the form and the great singers who inspired her, including Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie and Susannah McCorkle. “Blossom Dearie was the only one I got to see live