Tracks: Vocals, Production and Composition By Louisa McBee. All rights reserved.
Influences
Everything musical and artistic. Life. Sarah Vaugaun, Billie holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Cecil McBee, Cecil McBee Jr., Sade, Mariah Carey, Bjork, Prince, The Cranberries, Joni Mitchelle, Madonna, Sarah Maglachlan,Pink Floyd, Dido, Maria Callas, Laurie Anderson, Judy Garland, John Cage, Portishead, Annie Lennox, Brian Williams, Juana Molina, Digable Planets, Tori Amos, Zap Mamma, Moby, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Bach, Brahams, Monet, Kaki King, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks. Astronomy, Fantasy, The Mind, The Spirit, Nature, The City, Sound, Seasons, The Forest, The Sunset, Water.
Thanks to My Mom-Lucia McBee!!!! Eva Bitter, Will Bitter, Kristin Price, Ebony Brown, Sean, Robin, Chantilly, Manisha, Tiffany, Ricki, Alice Tichane, Jake, Carl, Ryan Homsey, Vita Isabella, Deborah Jamina, Judi Silvano, Joel Thome, Joe Ferry, Jim McElwaine, Mizel, All City Choir. Family: Lucia McBee, Cary Paul McBee, Cecil McBee, Nana, Big Mama, Debbie, CJ, and Cosima; aswell as Aunts, Uncles, cousins, neices and nephews. Thanks to the universe!!!
Louisa McBee has performed at New York and U.S. venues including: The Knitting Factory, The Bitter End, Tonic, Galapagos, Zebulon Cafe, The Bowery Poetry Club, The York Hilton and Towers, The Empress Ballroom,The Slipper Room, The Lions Den, The Tank Collective Unconscious and more! Born and raised in Manhattan, Louisa expressed a creative bent from her early years as a visual artist and musician. She grew up in a creative environment that included her father, world renown bassist Cecil McBee, and brother, guitar bassist Cecil McBee Jr. Louisa's mother, Lucia McBee, is an artist and writer and her brother, Cary Paul McBee is an entrepreneur. Louisa flourished in this artistic environment and brought her own exceptional creative talents to blossom. She trained in classical and jazz vocals starting at age 12. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BA in Studio Composition. Touring with The All City Choir accelerated her career with performances at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as solo appearances for the National Teachers Conference. Influenced by an intriguing mix of Billie Holiday, Bjork and Mariah Carey, Louisa is one of New York's top pop vocalists and leading ladies of synthesis. Louisa successfully started her solo career and is among New York's hottest electronica-pop artists. All rights reserved.
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Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane. I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio..not mastered and pretty close to finished mixing. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! Ruby Jane
The critically endangered New Zealand Fairy Tern, (Sterna nereis davisae), currently less than 40 birds, 10 breeding pairs.Early 1980's there were 4 breeding pairs.
This is the male of a successful breeding pair this season, at Pakiri Beach
Two fledglings born christmas eve, here at about 7 weeks old.
Conservation efforts include having wardens thru the breeding season at the 3 nesting sites, taping off of breeding areas, trapping preditors that eat the eggs [that are laid on the beach], and to educate beachgoers.
The two newest members of the Fairy Tern population flying in formation.
Peeaaace... Not sure if you peeped this yet. It's had a good run on MTV-u Let me know what you think.
4ward Eva! AZEEM...
.. "Open Em Up" from AIR CARTOONS [Oaklyn Records] for NEW MUSIC and the FULL VERSION of "Open Em Ep" [lyrics included] check out: Oaklyn Records MySpace Page
