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Our seventh issue features two young and very present artists whose music will certainly be enduring.

Our Blues Woman, this month, is Alexis P. Suter, who has taken the music scene by storm.

Jazz singer Sandra Kaye hails from Dallas, Texas, and performs around the world.

We hope you will enjoy reading it and we welcome your ideas, suggestions and submissions for future issues.

Love and music,
Diva JC
Publisher

JAZZ WOMEN

MISS SANDRA KAYE

Sandra Kaye hails from Dallas, Texas. The  daughter of a minister, she grew up singing gospel music and was often featured in church socials as a young girl with various choirs and girl groups. Sandra started her professional career by winning an amateur contest at the West End Cabaret Dallas, in 1986. She attributes her success to having a good rapport with great musicians, many hours of practice, countless gigs and frequent visits to local night spots. She has been featured with the Shelley Carroll Big Band and Curtis Bradshaw's First Reunion Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, Galen Jeter Orchestra and Vecho Vecencio Group. Kaye performed at The Dallas Museum of Art, Caravan of Dreams, Black Academy of Arts and Letters, African American Museum of Art and Culture, Sammons Center for the Arts, Morton Myerson Symphony Hall, Botanical Gardens, The Women's Museum, Texas Stadium, Eastfield College, Richland College, University of North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Dallas, South Dallas Culture Center, Mesquite Arts Center, Dallas Theatre Center, The Bob Hope Theatre at Southern Methodist University, Marshall Texas Civic Center and Preservation Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1991 and 1992, Sandra performed for the Duke Ellington Birthday Celebration with the Forth Worth Jazz Society and, in 1994, she headlined for the launching of the Anthony Mark Hankins Design Company at the Hall of State in Fair Park Dallas, Texas. In 1997, Sandra performed for the Beaux Arts Ball at the Dallas Museum of Art. Sandra has performed, internationally,  in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, China, Japan and West Africa. She's opened for and sung with David "Fathead" Newman, Roy Hargrove, Monty Alexander, Dr. Dwight Dickerson, Michael Carr, Dionne Warwick, Roger Boykin, Claude Johnson, Carl Patterson, Joe Johnson, Al Dupree, Johnny Taylor, James Clay, Yarbrough and Peoples, George Tallifierro of the Marcels, The Platters, The Drifters, Tanya Tucker, Antonio Fargas and the famed comedians, George Wallace and Shucky Ducky.

Presently, Sandra is performing at CJW Clubs in Shanghai, China. Her CD, What Will I Tell My Heart? is available at www.cdbaby.com/sandrakaye and you can hear her singing on videos:

1. Me and My Gin

2. What Will I Tell My Heart?

BLUES WOMEN

ALEXIS P. SUTER

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Alexis P. Suter came from a strong musical background. Her mother was a music teacher and an accomplished singer who worked with notables such as Harry Belafonte, Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and The Hall Johnson Choir. Her Mom would have Alexis sing in recitals and Gospel plays and it wasn’t long before Alexis realized that it was music and sharing it with others that fed her soul.

In the early 90’s, Alexis became a staple of underground garage and the first African American woman signed to Sony-Epic (Japan). Her legendary Club Shelter Anthem “Slam Me Baby,” distinguished her as a genuine underground star with penetrating vocals. For Sony she brought forth an EP titled “Drums of Freedom,” including the hit “We Need Each Other.”

Miss Suter solos with New York’s acclaimed Illumination and Total Praise Gospel Choirs. Her debut CD with Hipbone Records is being widely received by the music community and Triple A Radio nationwide.

Alexis regularly performs live at the Levon Helm Midnight Ramble Sessions in Woodstock, NY. These live performances are not to be missed because her unprecedented, universal talent connects with the heart and soul of audiences everywhere. Her larger than life stage presence radiates with the power of a white-hot super nova to the farthest niche of performance space. She has just released a phenomenal CD/DVD recorded live at Levon Helm Studios from The Midnight Ramble Sessions. Keep your eyes and ears open. Shooting stars can only be seen if you’re paying attention.

Alexis P. Suter Band "Live at the Midnight Ramble" January 2007 LHS
(Levon Helm Studio)

• VIDEOS

• www.myspace.com/alexispsuterband

• www.alexispsuter.com

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