She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for
Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).
Not exact matches
The Bronx Library Center presents «A Musical Tribute to Sam Cooke» on Saturday (Nov. 14) at 2:30 p.m. New York
jazz and pop
vocalist Cody Childs will pay tribute to Cooke's career, singing some of the artists» most
well - known songs.
«Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (Unrated) Bittersweet bio-pic revisits the rise and fall of Jackie Paris (1924 - 2004), a once - promising singer who burst on the postwar
jazz scene to win the Downbeat Critics Poll as the
Best New Male
Vocalist in 1953 only to labor in obscurity for most of his career following that explosive debut.
Donna Burke, who has been the
vocalist on several
well - known titles such as Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Silent Hill 2, among others in those franchises has broken out on her own and is being featured on a collection of game and anime music classics done in a classy
jazz style.
This loss is a crucial one for CAPA, which has a history of producing top - tier artists, such as R&B crooners Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux, as
well as
jazz bassist Christian McBride and organist - trumpeter -
vocalist Joey DeFrancesco.