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Kristine Mills

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  • Genre: Alternative / Bossa Nova / Jazz

    Location HOUSTON, Please select your region, Un

    Profile Views: 13331

    Last Login: 9/19/2012

    Member Since 12/13/2005

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmtyaXN0aW5lbWlsbHNtdXNpYy5jb20=

    Type of Label Unsigned

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    Meet Kristine Mills... Celebrating two decades of an accomplished music career, Kristine Mills continues to impress international audiences, music authorities, critics and the press with her songwriting, extensive repertoire, and polished, sophisticated vocals. Kristine, the winner of the Houston Press Music Awards 2010 “Best Songwriter” and the 2009 “Best Female Vocalist,” is currently recording her fourth cd of all her original music, As Yet Untitled scheduled for a May 2011 release with events in both Houston and Austin. Watch a preview of the video for the song “What Do You Feel Right Now?” recorded and filmed LIVE during her January 13, 2011 radio performance on KUHF 88.7 FM, NPR’s The Front Row. Visit www.kristinemillsmusic.com for access to the video. Kristine released her third album, bossanovafied in May 2009. All songs were written by Kristine, arranged in the classic style of bossa nova and recorded in Rio de Janeiro. bossanovafied has received national and international attention through traditional and Internet radio play. bossanovafied debuted at #46 on the World Music Album Chart - JazzWeek - February 22, 2010. bossanovafied short-listed for the 52nd Grammy nomination consideration in the "Best Jazz Album with Vocals" category. Several songs from bossanovafied were broadcast on the in-flight radio of domestic and international carriers including "Sweet Sorrow" on Continental Airlines in 2010. Her second album, Kristine Mills - Playing with the Big Boys LIVE, was recorded during a live performance with the late Rocky White and the late Barrie Lee Hall, Jr, two veteran members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. “Where else can Mills go after achieving perfection? The winner of the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards for “Best Female Vocalist,” Kristine Mills is the complete package graced with beauty, sensitivity, and a magnetic voice. She makes every song have the effect of an aphrodisiac on the senses.” “Kristine Mills Turns Up The Heat With Bossanovafied” www.jazzinsidemagazine.com / April 19, 2010 Mills has been invited as a special guest performer for both the Palm Beach and Boca Raton chapter galas of the American Cancer Society this April. Kristine performed a benefit concert for The Grace Foundation with Patrice Pike at Warehouse Live in January 2011. November 2010, Kristine was featured in three showcases during the Miami Music Festival. August 2009, Kristine headlined the 2009 Brazilian International Jazz Festival. Kristine and her Rio-based, bossanovafied band, performed classic jazz, bossa nova and cuts from bossanovafied to sold-out theaters in Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. Other career highlights include her guest vocalist appearance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 2007 Brazilian International Jazz Festival tour in Brazil. That same year she sang with the Duke Ellington “small” Orchestra for the 50th Jubilee Celebration of the Mies van der Rohe Society in Chicago. Mills has performed at iconic jazz clubs including New Orleans’ famed Snug Harbor, Bourbon Street in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the House of Blues-Houston. Kristine Mills is a member of NARAS (The Grammys). Find Kristine on the web: kristinemillsmusic.com / facebook.com/kristinemills and facebook.com/kristine mills music Twitter: kristinemills / myspace.com/kristinemills / cdbaby.com/Artist/KristineMills Quotes about Mills "Kristine Mills' pure jazz has become part of the soundtrack of Houston, which makes perfect sense. Like the city itself, her music combines an elemental strength at its core with an almost brazen sex appeal you have to experience to understand. This woman has mad skills." Jeff Gremillion, Editor-in-chief, HOUSTON MAGAZINE / MODERN LUXURY "Mills' lyrical approach is to soak the words and phrases in the emotion of their poetry. Her sense of tone is sharp, and she can make subtle changes in inflection to alter the color of the song, with minute changes in breath or dallying over end words or phrases to create just the effect she wants." -Raul d'Gama Rose / www.allaboutjazz.com / December 2009 “So Ms. Mills’ vocal ability is more than ‘a way with a lyric,’ it’s an immersion into material that she owns, not something someone else built. This is her intimate familiarity with lyrics that become almost instantly familiar inside your head. This isn’t mouthing words...This is considerable vocal talent.” www.girlsingers.org l Bossanovafied: Kristine Mills February 13th, 2010 by dwboynton | Posted in Reviews “Every once in a while you see a live performance so good it sends shivers up your spine. Be ready for some shiver action when jazz singer Kristine Mills steps onstage.” Houston Press “From the first note of her jazzy rendition of "I Love Paris," I was instantly immersed into the music. Listening to her voice, which ranges from throaty and soulful to soft and sensual, you forget about everything else. It's just you, Kristine and her 4-piece band...and of course the other 100 people sitting with you in the room.” “A little bit of sultry jazz is good for the soul” Michelle Ponto, Girl About Town May 03, 2009 | www.KHOU.com | “Beautiful, bold, and blessed with a set of killer vocal cord…songbird Kristine Mills has the whole package. Her latest album, Bossanovafied…represents a culmination of her astonishing singing and songwriting talents. Crooning soulful lyrics with a sassy, old-school flavor, Mills embraces the classic style of Bossa Nova through this intimate collection of songs." Brilliant Magazine – blog | “Bossa – Babe” May 1, 2009 | By Sam | Category: bRILLIANT Blog / By Courtney Cavender

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    Kristine Mills has a show on 05/23/2013 at 07:00 PM @ Momentum Jaguar in Houston, TX http://lnk.ms/f3ZQH #concert

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    Kristine Mills has a show on 05/23/2013 at 07:00 PM @ Momentum Jaguar in Houston, TX http://t.co/UxlnbEA3EJ #concert

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