We have so many wonderful singers that we celebrate from around the world. Our neighbor, Canada, has produced many of them. This month of April, we will acknowledge a few beginning with Sarah McLachlan. Sarah was born on January 28, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as Sarah Ann McLachlan. She is known for her
Greek, Italian and Portuguese descent: all in one elegant and sophisticated heavenly sounding body is: WINDY KARIGIANES. You can hear her cultural diversity in every note; mixing contemporary harmonies with vintage rhythms. Windy is an aficionado of Jazz and World music. She should be. She began her professional singing career at age 16 singing Standards.
Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Adrianna Thurber (a.k.a. “Miss Fearless”) has spent her life playing the violin. She studied classically at school, while also learning the art of Jazz Harmonic Theory and Improvisation from her father, Michael Thurber, a jazz guitarist. Immediately after graduating in 2006 from the Las Vegas Academy of Performing and Visual
Johnny Miles is an actor and musician, whose love for performing began at an early age. As a young lad, Johnny discovered he could get out of trouble by making his mom laugh, and his career has come full circle; he is currently a clown in Le Reve, The Dream – a spectacular water circus
Christopher Davis comes from Salt Lake City, Utah. He started playing bass in orchestras and various other groups as early as nine years old. In 1992 he graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Music in Bass Performance. He began studies with Mrs. Audrey Bush of the Utah Symphony in 1993 and followed
Mundo Juillerat, comes from the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He grew up surrounded by polynesian music because his Mother, Aunty, and cousins were dancers in Hula (Halaus) and Tahitian dance troupes. Starting off on the Ukulele, he graduated to playing guitar and the Toeti’ (tahitian log drum) in various Hawaiian shows at the age of
Noybel Gorgoy comes from the city of Pinar del Rio in the island of Cuba , land of many famous Artists. She grew up listening to music and developing in arts thanks to her musician dad Noel Gorgoy wish is also a big artist in her city. At the age of 7 she started in
Mary Coughlan (born 5 May 1956, County Galway) is an Irish jazz and folk singer and actress. She has received great acclamation in her native country for her emotional and heartfelt jazzy musical renditions. She was the eldest of five and had endured a very erratic youth. She left convent school and started drinking alcohol
“Danny Boy” arrived a century ago and never left. But arrived from where? Most people assume it’s from Ireland, but it’s not. It was written by an Englishman, Fred Weatherly, a prolific songwriter - and later successful lawyer - who published 1,500 songs. “One of the mysteries has always been is how this Englishman, who'd
Another Irish musician we are celebrating is Imelda Mary Higham, professionally known as Imelda May. She is not only an Irish musician, but a producer and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in The Liberties area of Dublin, May began her career in music at age sixteen—performing with a number of local bands and musicians— before forming her own band in 2002.
