Juliet Kelly

b. 6 Might 1970, London, Britain. As a kid Kelly grew up and informed in nonmusical environment. Only spiritual music was allowed at home with college she shied from almost any overall performance, although she do consider piano lessons from age 13. She experienced begun learning for an economics level and was also going for a bass acoustic guitar course when, recently conscious that she experienced a good performing tone of voice, impulsively she required a jazz vocal course at a music workshop and arrived to contact with vocalist and instructor Anita Wardell. Persuaded and led by Wardell, Kelly transformed direction and then got a postgraduate training course in jazz at London’s Guildhall College of Music and Crisis, where she came across musicians such as for example Gary Crosby, John Etheridge and Orphy Robinson. Her open public performance schedule quickly created and she was shortly singing in pubs and night clubs throughout London. In a short time, she was performing all around the UK, and in addition has toured European countries and has made an appearance in Israel and Australia. Kelly can be a guaranteeing songwriter and arranger and all except one of the paths on her behalf 2003 debut record Aphrodite’s Child had been her very own compositions. Among music artists with whom Kelly spent some time working are saxophonist Tony Kofi, pianists Mike Gorman and Gareth Williams, guitarist Jim Mullen, bass participant Tom Barlow and drummer Sebastian Rochford. She made an appearance on the London Jazz Celebration in 2003 and 2004 and produced her American debut at New York’s Lovely Rhythm jazz membership in 2005. Kelly, whose mentioned influences consist of Shirley Horn, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald, includes a exclusive wealthy and creamy audio allied to great phrasing and an excellent stage existence. (NB: Never to end up being confused using the jazz vocalist with the name of Julie Kelly.)