Alyssa Graham

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风格: #爵士流行　#当代爵士　#成人时代
地区: 欧美

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by Paula EdelsteinBorn in New Jersey to parents who instilled in her a love for all musical genres, Alyssa Graham was exposed to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Nancy Wilson, The Temptations, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan at an early age. The singer/songwriter/instrumentalist has since parlayed those early musical experiences as a point of departure to present her own original music. Graham studied piano, saxophone and guitar and after graduating from high school, co-founded and performed with the band Blindman's Holiday. While at Ithaca College the sextet became legendary on the college circuit and secured some high profile performances with such artists as The Band,Lisa Loeb,Jessie Harrisand The Wailers. Alyssa Graham graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Anthropology and continued touring extensively for six years with the sextet. Travels through Brazil, India, Africa and Europe supplied boundless musical inspiration and as Alyssa's creative resolve, passion for storytelling and vocal eloquence continued to evolve, her peers and the jazz cognoscenti praised her true talents as a singer/songwriter. She continued her musical studies at The New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied Jazz Voice and Contemporary Improvisation and was encouraged to develop her unique artistic style that plays on her fresh, breezy phrasing and multi-octave range. In 2005, Alyssa launched her solo career with her critically-lauded debut CD, What Love Is, chosen by All About Jazz as one of the "Best New Recordings of 2005" and Jazziz's Annual "Women In Jazz" issue. In 2008, her forward progress was enabled by the release of Echo, produced and co-written by Jon Cowherd. On Echo, Graham covers songs by Paul Simon, Sting, sings four originals inspired by the love of her life - Douglas Graham, - and makes musical history as the first singer to record the long lost gem titled "Involved Again," which was originally written for Billie Holiday in the 1950s by songwriter Jack Reardon.

Alyssa Graham

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