Robin McKelle

Robin McKelle is a vocalist that has straddled the series between classic tempo & blues and traditional pop music, but her like of golf swing and big-band jazz continues to be a lot more pronounced. A Robin McElhatten was raised in Rochester, NY, the little girl of the liturgical vocalist. She had taken traditional piano lessons and performed French horn for a decade, and her early affects included Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, and Gladys Knight. By her past due teenagers she was even more intrigued by this content of jazz harmonies, and McKelle was bought out by performers Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Wilson. She went to the College or university of Miami from 1994 to 1996, going for Boston as well as the Berklee University of Music, and graduated in 1999. Surviving in LA, she toured being a back-up singer, then came back to Boston to instruct tone of voice classes at Berklee for 3 years. Acquiring third put in place the 2004 Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition in Washington, D.C., she set up her career being a leader. Because of this, doors exposed to McKelle, including an audition for Blue Take note Records. The set of artists she’s caused since contains the Boston Pops Orchestra, BeBe Winans, Jon Secada, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard, Pete Christlieb, Andy Snitzer, Bob Shepard, Joe Magnarelli, Wayne Bergeron, Darren Hayes, David Bowie, Carly Simon, Don Grusin, Lonnie Plaxico, Carl Allen, and Michael McDonald. Her recordings are the separately released Never I WANT TO Go, accompanied by Presenting Robin McKelle and Contemporary Classic for the Inexpensive Lullaby label, the last mentioned recording issued with the Blue Take note label in France. She embarked on a thorough tour of European countries in 2008.