Hanna Richardson

b. 16 Might 1956, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The little girl of a international service officer, a lot of Richardson’s youth was spent abroad. At age seven, whilst in SOUTH USA, she started piano lessons and in addition sang aware of the family members. In 1965, her dad retired to Geneva, NY, and it had been while in senior high school there that she came across bass participant Phil Flanigan. While still in university, she began performing professionally, first rock and roll and folk music. Because of hearing Ella Fitzgerald on record, she made a decision to begin singing jazz. Nevertheless, it had been the singing design of Maxine Sullivan which was to really have the most significant influence upon her. After university, Richardson transferred to Rochester, NY, carrying on to pursue her curiosity about both folk music and jazz and she also trained herself to try out the mandolin. In 1986, she transferred to Syracuse, NY, and continuing to just work at Syracuse School, eventually becoming Helper Dean in the institution of Administration. She sang skillfully during this time period, as back-up vocalist on several documenting sessions, with various engagements within the Syracuse region. Re-encountering Flanigan who got toured and documented with Sullivan, Richardson started performing with him and he became her second hubby. It was nearly unavoidable that their initial recording project jointly, 2002’s Something TO KEEP IN MIND You By, ought to be a tribute to Sullivan. An eloquent, unadorned, and lithely swinging vocalist, Richardson’s work shows her deep understanding from the music and significant respect for the lyrics, which she interprets with understated appeal.