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  • Wendy Vaughan hails from Caracas, Venezuela. She is a singer, songwriter, and saxophonist. Her musical journey began in her childhood. She began composing in her thirties. Born to Cuban and Dominican parents, her family moved to New York City when she was 4. Wendy's musical journey began 12, in Houston, Texas, when she discovered the saxophone. She attended the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and San Jacinto College Central in Pasadena, where she was lead saxophonist in one of country's finest Jazz bands. Her diverse musical style was inspired by Jazz and Latin music infused with spiritual and personal growth themes. Early in her career, she performed on international stages like the JVC Festival in Nice, France, with BB King and Woody Hermann. She garnered praise and solidified her reputation as a rising star in the Jazz community. Wendy is in the construction and home improvement industry in a thriving business in Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, Dallas, and Florida. She gained national recognition as a juror in the Enron trial, resulting in a features in Inc. Magazine and on CNN, FOX News, and CBS, speaking about ethics in business. In Galveston, Wendy inspires listeners with her soulful melodies and profound lyrics. Her debut album, Through Children's Eyes, made waves on Christian stations. Her new album, Necessary Chaos, is a captivating and introspective collection of songs. Wendy Vaughan remains a talented artist, blending genres and creating music that resonates deeply with her audience.

    http://wendyvaughanmusic.com

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  • Alison Crockett is a vibrant vocalist who has performed and recorded in a wide range of genres including neo-soul, acid jazz, R&B, gospel, funk and electronica. Following breakthrough success as a featured vocalist working with DJ King Britt and British jazz-rap group Us3, Alison continued to evolve musically, recording diverse projects: the jazz EP “That’s Where You Go” in 1999, critically acclaimed R&B album On Becoming A Woman in 2004, dance/electronic album The Return of Diva Blue in 2006, jazz album Bare in 2007, 2012 political multi-genre patchwork album Mommy, What’s A Depression in 2012, and Brazilian-inspired EP Obrigada, recorded in São Paulo, Brazil and released in 2018.

    Alison has been teaching vocal technique for over 20 years to people of all ages and genres. As a voice teacher for Highbridge Voices, a professional children’s training choir in the Bronx, NY, she taught children between the ages of 7 and 15 how to sing in styles ranging from opera-based European classical music, musical theater, to R&B and pop stylings. She also has a vibrant private studio, which includes both aspiring singers as well as well-respected professionals. Alison is certified in Somatic VoiceWorkTM the LoVetri Method.

    Alison Crockett - Levine Music

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  • Jessie Laine Powell hails from Lexington, Kentucky. She grew up with her talented siblings, listening to gospel music. Jazz vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, and Shirley Horn, along with the Lawrence Welk Show stirred her soul, dominating her musical taste. Her love for the stage, orchestras, and Jazz standards led her to Hollywood, California,  where she opened for Nancy Wilson. She added countless television, theatrical, and radio appearances to her resume. After years out West, Jessie returned to Lexington, where a fateful meeting with a church friend lead to a musical partnership with producer and Jazz artist Eric Copeland, who collaborated on her debut album On the Edge with Gospel, Soul, and Jazz songs.

    Later, Jessie landed a role in the movie Heart of a Champion, directed by Richard Fitzpatrick,  who sought music and soloists that conveyed the message of hope and perseverance. Jessie’s vocals impacted the movie soundtrack, greatly. From 2015 to 2018, Jessie’s tour schedule, included an annual performance at the East Hawaiian Jazz Festival, where she performed at multiple venues and churches, providing her melodic voice and inspirational lyrics with notable Jazz musicians. Jessie’s singles include Like No Other Love, On The Edge, and Love Supreme, featuring Marion Meadows. Jessie leaves her fans feeling renewed and motivated as she takes you on an intimate musical journey.
    2023 ALM Academy of Local Musicians Hall of Fame2023 LEX Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award2023APPY Award Nominee for Best R&B Artist and Best Jazz Artist
    www.jessielainepowell.com

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  • Fatimah M. Jackson is a unique and diverse writer, self-published author, spoken word artist, and song writer. From Western Pennsylvania, she dreamed of becoming a singer and songwriter as a child. In her pursuit of that dream, she attended  California State College where she majored in  Music Composition, Human Services and now she is living that dream. From childhood, or as her mother would say, since she could talk, Fatimah has always had a yearning to sing. Impressively, she sold her first song at the age of 11! This shy, yet talented woman of God has been credited as a Ghostwriter as well as co-writer of movie scripts, skits, plays, and Faith-based meditations. Her personal motto that she lives by is “Free your mind of everything that will hinder you from the peace GOD has for you.” In her free time, Fatimah enjoys singing, songwriting, talking to God and riding her Canadian Canam Spyder F3 motorcycle. She is an advocate for various causes including Indigenous American and local Poverty.  Fatimah’s breakthrough as an author emerged with her first nonfiction short story entitled “From Darkness to Light” published in 2009 in Hope for Today magazine in New Jersey. Growing stronger and taking a leap of faith, she is now author of the self-published book “Held Hostage by a Stranger: A Message from the Most High”. Fatimah currently resides in Atlanta Georgia with her husband. For more information about Fatimah and her works, visit www.fatimahmj.com

  • Adria Shahid hails from Columbus, Ohio. She is a vocal stylist and songwriter who developed an ear for music by listening to and singing with her father a musician and vocalist. Her mother is a pianist and vocalist. With the tutelage from her parents, Adria was destined to be a musical artist. Adria’s musical journey began with one of the top Midwest cover bands. She shared her story with the debut project, Waarrioress of Love, which is inspired by her life experiences. This repertoire of music represents her personal struggles, and the common struggles we human beings share. Listen for the pain, love and joy throughout this album! Adria’s talent has been fine tuned by working in the music industry, booking national acts, locally, and sharing the stage with them. She is one the first music agents to book national acts, locally, in the sophisticated intimate atmosphere of one of Ohio’s Premier supper clubs. She has performed with artists like Maysa, and hosted, introduced, and performed as warm up act for Ledsi, Lalah Hathaway, and Eric Benet. Also, she sang with Bob Baldwin. She performs with her home grown band, International Smooth Jazz artists, Urban Jazz Coalition, National Recording Artist NexLevel R&B Jazz Band. Adria travels. nationally, to perform for The National Democratic Black Caucus Conference in Washington DC, and at the African American Historic Lincoln Theater’s Annual Gala in Columbus, Ohio. Adria’s music is playing on internet and on radio and is marketed, internationally, on playlists in the USA, UK, Italy, the Carribean, and in Africa! This is just her musical beginnings! Be on the lookout for more music from your Sister Adria! She will perform in West Palm Beach on Saturday, November 4, 2023.

    https://adriashahid1.com

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  • You are invited to the launch of Musicwoman Magazine online.

    http://issuu.com/joancartwright 


    We will talk with some of the featured artists about their musical adventures.


    d Vocalists t Janice Harrington 8 t Donna Singer 10 t Denise King 14 t Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye 18 t Michele Hendricks 20 t Fiona Ross 24 t Yeny Silvia Dalmau Brindis 26 d Talent Spotlight t Adriana Herrera Fuentes 30 t Yudianis Quintana Changuita 31 d Horn Players t Ginetta Silvi 36 t Naomi Joy 38 t Paula Atherton 40 t Tomoka Nomura-Jarvis 42 t Sarah Marie Hughes 44 d Special Features t Vi Redd 47 t Musicwoman Mothers & Daughters 48 d Health Corner by Lydia Harris 52


    Join us at http://wijsf.org


     


     

  • ZIZA MUFTIC Is a Johannesburg based musician with roots in Zagreb, Croatia. Her musical upbringing started as a Western classical violin player, then a classical singer. Today, her main form of expression lies in jazz vocals, composition and music education. Ziza’s vocal range stretches from Jazz to Western classical repertoire. Her sound is a unique blend of Balkan and Eastern European folk songs with the American and South African Jazz styles. Ziza sings in many different languages, English, Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, isiXhosa and isiZulu. She is currently working on her third studio album  titled ‘Ziza Muftic: Singing in tongues’, featuring  a female a cappella ensemble, AmaNanule. This album explores voice as an instrument, through many languages and rhythms. This is a link to a recent concert of Ziza Muftic and her band:

    https://youtu.be/cX_PtRJV5Io


    Read more at http://www.zizamuftic.com/bio

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  • Kim Clarke is an American bassist from New York. She is the founder of Lady Got Chops, a nonprofit that promotes the gig announcements of women in jazz, in the month of March, Women's History Month.Her 21st Anniversary LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2023 featured the music of our Living Jazz Legend, educator, composer, pianist Bertha Hope, the centennial of her husband the late great Bebop pianist composer Elmo Hope and the promotion of WOMEN IN THE ARTS and Sciences in general. In celebration of the 20th Annual Festival LADY GOT CHOPS Women's History Month Music and Arts Festival Inc. sponsored four scholarships for High School Girls; one in honor of Professor Barry HarrisThe Keeper of the Bebop Flame and the other three in honor of Lillithe Meyers the owner of the Jazz Spot, the birthplace of the LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Jazz Festival.http://ladygotchops.comhttp://wijsf.orghttps://issuu.com/joancartwright/docs/musicwoman_2021_full_document

  • Laurie Towers is a bassist within New York City’s “downtown” scene of free improv, new music and punk-laden experimentalism. Over the past twenty-five years she’s brought her R&B-driven counterpoint and chops to venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, sharing the stage with an array of musicians in the nexus between rock, jazz and the avant garde. Towers also made her mark in the upstate artists’ community of Woodstock NY where she was referred to as a “bass wizard” in a ‘Woodstock Times’ review. As a member of the Red Microphone, she recorded with revolutionary poet Amina Baraka for the legendary ESP-Disk label. Also a successful business owner and host of her feminist radio show, Towers’ tenacity and activism have guided her journey, offering a model of empowerment for women in the arts and more. Towers has also been a member of the Dissident Arts Orchestra from the start. Creating downtown-style improvised scores to silent films. On Halloween, the Orchestra crafted a unique soundtrack to the FW Murnau terror classic ‘Nosferatu’ with Towers’ pulsating, throbbing fretless bass offering the vampire a voice to be reckoned with. Capping off her rebel yell for women’s rights, Laurie Towers created ‘She’s Raising the Bar’, a weekly podcast, in 2012. As its producer and co-host, she’s engaged an array of woman actors, writers, vocalists and entrepreneurs and broadcasted her show live from the NYC Women’s March, in the heat of battle.

    The Spirit of Billy Bang with Amina Baraka

    http://laurietowers.net

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  • You know that my life's work is bringing awareness to the WORLD about the disparities and inequities of earnings by women musicians.


    On Friday, February 24, 2023, at 4 p.m. EST, my guests Melba Joyce, Rita Graham, and I discuss this issue.


    You are invited to login or call (563) 999-3046 to listen in or talk to us.


    Look forward to this interview!


    Thanks,


    Dr. Joan Cartwright

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    http://blogtalkradio.com/musicwoman


     

  • Dorothy Lawson is a Canadian-born cellist. She completed degrees at the University of Toronto, the Vienna Academy and earned MM and DMA degrees from The Juilliard School. Dorothy is an Artistic Director who composed, performed and recorded, nationally and internationally, for 25 years. She is a founding member of ETHEL, the widely acclaimed, GRAMMY®-winning New Music string quartet. Her achievements include, touring and recording with Kurt Elling, performing with Ron Carter as a regular member of his Nonet for 20 years, building three multimedia shows for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a ten-year, ongoing residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an ongoing artist residency at Denison University, in Ohio. She teaches in the Preparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School in New York City.

  • This special edition of MUSICWOMAN Radio features two sultry songwriters whose music plays in rotation in my car, day after day, week after week, month after month.


    Sharon Rae North released Silhouette in 2022. I put the CD that she mailed to me in June in my CD player and let it play throughout July, August, and September. The songs crept into my subconcious mind and I found myself singing them in my sleep!


    Douyé sent her CD Journey to me several years ago. I played it over and over in my car, which had a magnificent sound system. At the beginning of October, I began listening to it, again, and the same thing happened. I'm singing her songs in my head, night after night, waking up to her music in my head. Also, she recorded Blue Bossa by Kenny Dorham with my lyrics!


    So, they are my guests and we will discuss their songwriting process. You may listen to them on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, and wherever else you listen to streamed music.


    Love and Music,


    Dr. Diva JC

    https://www.sharonraenorth.com

    https://douyemusic.com

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  • Wendy Kirkland is a pianist and singer in the UK. Her musical career began at 10, when she started piano lessons. She won a scholarship for lessons from Derbyshire Music and took her ABRSM piano grades. She switched to jazz in her teens and was a dance class pianist, accompanist to singers, and a keyboardist in club bands. She was persuaded to sing by guitarist Bill McCreath. Wendy reached people turned off by instrumental jazz by communicating with the audience through songs. Her album, Piano Divas (2017), a tribute to the female pianist singers of jazz, began her ascent to recognition as a singing pianist. The ability to sing, comp, and craft solos on the piano and vocal scat lines is her forte. Her influences were Diana Krall, Eliane Elias, and Dena DeRose. Her second release, The Music’s On Me (2019) was “a huge leap forward,” according to Jazz Views. Both albums prompted ACE funded tours around the UK and constant radio airplay. In 2020, Wendy and guitarist/bassist husband Pat Sprakes entertained with a daily dose of Latin American music on Facebook, entitled Latin Lockdowns. After 86 performances, they moved on to other musical endeavors. They received messages from people who missed the videos that were “a ray of sunshine” in the lockdown. She performs on Hammond organ with Organik Fource, featuring her husband Pat Sprakes on guitar and sax, Organik Trio Goes To The Movies, and The Organik Cookbook, celebrating the early soul-jazz albums of George Benson.
    https://wendykirkland.comhttp://www.wijsf.org

  • Fiona Ross was enrolled in dance, drama and singing lessons at the age of two, piano at age six. At what moment did Fiona make a conscious choice to pursue a career in music? There was never a time when there was any other choice. By eight years old, Fiona was starring in London's West End. She is a vocalist, pianist, composer, and producer known for creating her own contemporary jazz sound with fast-paced Latin jazz, vintage Jazz club, a little neo soul along with heart wrenching ballads that demonstrate. She is an artist who has received incredible reviews and awards for all of her albums. She performed at 606 Club, Pizza Express, Bulls Head, Nells Jazz and Blues, and Toulouse Lautrec. Her music is on radio stations worldwide, including 40 stations in the USA, and in Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, and Spain. Fiona's accolades include Best Jazz Song from the World Songwriting Awards for ‘For My Dad', Outstanding Achievement Award from the Global Music Awards and International Female Songwriter of the Year from International Singer Songwriters Association. She was featured in Tinnitist, Jazziz, Record World Magazine, Jazz Corner, Ink 19, and Jazz Quarterly, and in the top ten of most played videos in Tinnitist. Fiona’s song ‘Mistress’, recorded live in a stairwell, is included in the British Library archives. Fiona was featured on television, in print ads, and jingles.
    https://fionaross.co.ukhttp://womeninjazzmedia.comhttp://www.wijsf.org
     

     

  • Naomi Joy Nelson is a multi-talented instrumentalist, educator, author and speaker on a mission to liberate, educate, and motivate others through her personal experience. Trained as both a Musician and Educator with a ministerial background, Naomi combines her love of outreach, music and education into a harmonious presentation. A graduate of Florida A&M University, highly sought out musician, minister, and speaker, Naomi has been a voice of inspiration to many. She has engaged audiences, students, as well as her community as a multi-talented instrumentalist, educator, and now author and speaker. Naomi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education, is a current student with the University of Florida’s master’s degree program, and teaches instrumental music as an Orange County Public Schools Band & Orchestra Director. Naomi Joy is available for music ministry, entertainment, recordings, solo accompaniment, weddings, funerals, and special events as a solo artist or with full band.

    http://www.naomijoy.co

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  • Jackie Pickett hails from Pennsylvania. She began her career as a section bassist with the Jacksonville, Florida Symphony Orchestra. She is Principal Bassist of the Columbus, Georgia Symphony Orchestra and LaGrange Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Pickett serves as Principal Bass of the Colour of Music International Black Classical Musicians Festival. She is an Artist Affiliate at Agnes Scott College. The American double-bassist obtained her Bachelor of Music degree with high honors from West Virginia University; her Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music; and her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her musical abilities cover a wide range of performance genres from album credits with Hip-Hop Artist Monica (The Makings of Me, 2006) to Classical recordings with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Conversations in Silence, 2008). Pickett was bassist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra Nashville) and Atlanta contemporary Ensemble Thamyris. Both ensembles recorded and commissioned numerous new works by composers such as Michael Torke, Tania Leon, Trey Anastasio, Alvin Singleton, Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros.

    www.lowbinternational.org

    https://csoga.org/jacqueline-pickett

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  • Dottie Kelly was born in West Palm Beach, FL, on March 13. She moved to Clearwater, FL, where she attended St. Pete Junior College and earned her Associates degree in accounting. Dottie sang in a Baptist church, which is where she developed her talent for singing. She would later follow her Aunt Betty Padgett, a well-known singer out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, to her various shows. Aunt Betty Padgett eventually asked Dottie to sing background with her and Joey Gilmore. From that point on, Dottie has traveled to various states, and opened for many artists from around the world. Those experiences mixed with pure raw talent, have made her a bona fide soul singer. Dottie released her 1st promo CD in 2012 and Single Dec 2020. "I Don't Want No Man Like You". Now released CD on March 18, “Dancing Shoes”. She performed with Darrell Raines, Otis Cadillac, TKBlu Band, Ladies of Soul, and the legendary Joey Gilmore Band. Her soulful voice and natural stage presence is a force to be reckoned with. Dottie Kelly is a powerhouse blues singer, with over 20 years of performing experience. Once you hear Dottie Kelly sing, you will be sure to book her for your next event. 

    Dottie Kelly and Rock The House Band 

    West Palm Beach, Fl 

    561-252-0567 

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    https://dottiekelly.com

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  • Raymond Rivera was born in Lansing Michigan. His father and mother moved to East Chicago, Indiana and, when Ray was 14, they began living in Puerto Rico where he started playing drums in church. He studied in The Music School Juan Peña Reyes for three years. I had the privilege to perform in lots of seminars with Peter Erskine, Alex Acuña, Horacio Hernandez, and John Riley. He studied music with the most renowned drums. Ray has three CDs as a drummer and executive producer. Ray performed with Raymond Ramirez, Richard Roberge, Tony Batista, Rafael Torres, Kenneth Morales, and Mariano Rodríguez. Ray teaches drum students at the Luiz & Pena Academy in Humacao, PR.

    Familia (2021)
    Tu Verdad (2011)
    The Miracle (2008)

    Piano, flute, saxophone Jose Valentino Ruiz


    Bassist Jose Ruiz

    www.raymondriveramusic.com

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  • Madhuri Jagadeesh was born into a family of musicians and artists, trained in the Indian Classical arts. Her connection with jazz began as a six, when she heard Ella Fitzgerald'sTisket-a-Tasket. She learned the rhyme in school and her grandfather, a harmonica player, taught her other songs, including Stormy Weather that she thought was his composition! As a teen, she listened to jazz on vinyl. There were no opportunities in Bengaluru to sing jazz, so she joined an all-girl pop and rock band. Her training in Indian classical music continued but income came from doing retro and popular music. Her graduate studies were in psychology, sociology, and literature. She completed her Master's in Literature and became a learning and development consultant. She sang with a band that performed at weddings, clubs, and hotels. She met her husband, Jagadeesh, who plays guitar, in 1993, while auditioning for a jazz band. He introduced her to modern jazz, experimental, and fusion music. In 2006, they started MoonArra. Both were interested in European Classical music. MoonArra fulfilled their passion to create original music and to tell stories. In 2008, a friend and bandleader joined the organizing committee of Java Jazz 2009 in Indonesia. MoonArra received a special mention at the festival. Their first album consisted of songs by Jagadeesh. One composition Road to Pondy was released online and featured in a compilation of a boutique label in New York. Indian Accent was released on Rock and Raaga and Times Music. In 2012, they performed at Asiabeat Anthology Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and at Morocco’s Tanjazz Festival in 2015.

    https://www.thebsm.net

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  • Fostina Dixon is from Wilmington, Delaware where she studied with Robert Boysie Lowery. Fostina is a composer, vocalist, and jazz soloist who plays soprano, alto, and baritone saxes; flute; and clarinet. As a young woodwind instrumentalist, she played for Delaware All-State Band and American Young Symphonic Orchestra in Europe. She studied with Frank Foster, Buddy Collett, Vic Morosco, Joe Viola, Andy McGhee, and William Bowie. She performed at jazz clubs, colleges, libraries, churches, community art centers, Jazzmobile, theaters, and abroad. She was a soloist with Abbey Lincoln, Barry Harris, Earl May, and the Big Apple Jazzwomen. She played with Gil Evans, Roy Ayers, Tom Browne, Charlie Persip, Melba Liston, Cab Calloway, Slide Hampton, Frank Foster, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Vinton, Sammy Davis, Jr., Prince, and Marvin Gaye for four years. She was in the big bands of Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Cleveland, and Leslie Drayton.http://fostinadixon.comhttp://wijsf.org async defer crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v13.0&appId=280894702143&autoLogAppEvents=1" nonce="fBA4lFY3">