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Brooklyn-born keyboardist/vocalist Robert Lamm could be most widely known for his tenure in Chicago, but his involvement in music began when he was a kid, playing piano by ear and singing in the Brooklyn Levels choir. Lamm performed in rings while in senior high school and visited Roosevelt College or …

Jazz modern vocalist Samantha Siva is a fresh millennium question, culminating jazz crossover stylings within her urban soulful enthusiasm and majestic instrumentals. Of Uk and Sri Lankan history, Siva described her like for the piano and important path of David Benoit, George Michael, Seal, and Sting. She analyzed traditional piano …

Prolific keyboardist, producer, and arranger Tag Portmann began playing the piano at age five. Within 3 years, he was executing before delighted viewers and earning honours with his skill. Switching from traditional music to pop and jazz, Portmann obtained enough focus on receive a scholarship or grant to New York’s …

Hugh Masekela comes with an considerable jazz background and qualifications, but has enjoyed main success among the first leaders in the world fusion mode. Masekela’s lively trumpet and flügelhorn solos have already been presented in pop, R&B, disco, Afro-pop, and jazz contexts. He’s experienced American and worldwide hits, caused bands …

Derek Martin was created in Detroit in 1938, and like many early R&B and spirit performers, he got his begin in gospel. His professional break arrived early when he was employed at age 17 to sing with Duke Ellington. In the first ’50s Martin became a member of the performing …

Saxophonist Warren Hill was created in Toronto; among five kids, he started playing acoustic guitar at age eight, and by his teenagers was fronting an area rock and roll group. Originally he considered the sax and then play in his college band, producing the device his total concentrate following his …

John Southworth (which is without a doubt his stage moniker extracted from the saint of this name) has music in his bloodstream. His dad, Peter Shelley, was a significant shape in the glam picture of 1970s Britain, and was also the A&R guy who brought the globe Ruler Crimson. Southworth’s …

b. 1960, Johannesburg, South Africa. An Indian flautist, Memory first begun to explore the links between jazz and Indian musical improvisation while jamming along with his brothers as an adolescent. He travelled to India for the very first time aged 17, learning under the well-known flute machine Shri Suryakant Limaye, …

Among the many jazzmen who all started out using hard bop but went electric powered through the fusion period, Joe Test was, in the later ’50s, a founding person in the Jazz Crusaders along with trombonist Wayne Henderson, tenor saxman Wilton Felder, and drummer Stix Hooper. The Crusaders’ debts to …

Actress/vocalist Fran Jeffries (given birth to Frances Makris) began her profession in the later ’50s, showing up in such movies as Sex as well as the One Girl, The Green Panther, and Elvis Presley’s Harum Scarum. Many Television, nightclub, and movie theater performances implemented as Jeffries confirmed her vocal skill, …