Joni Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Phoebe Snow, Ray Charles, Paul Simon, Janis Ian, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ferron, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, Van Gogh, R.E.M., Alanis Morrisette, U2, Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Natalie Merchant & 10,000 Maniacs, mountains, James Taylor, Maya Angelou, Bonnie Raitt, Whoopi Goldberg, Arrested Development, Pearl Jam, Janis Joplin, The Cherokee Nation, Joan Armatrading, Laura Nyro, Nikki Giovanni, The Beatles, Tom Robbins, Stevie Nicks, Richie Havens, Carole King, Cat Stevens, Sting, Eva Cassady, CSN&Y, Quincy Jones, Hugh Masekela, Rickie Lee Jones, Lloyd Price, Georgia O'Keefe, James Joyce, Thelonious Monk, Virginia Woolf, Sophie B. Hawkins, Indigo Girls, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, New York City, and on and on and on and on...
Sounds Like
"the spiritual love child of Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell"
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Richard Lynch, producer at Chicago’s WNUR-FM, states: "Lorijo Manley will blow you away with her 'humanistic funk rock' style. A premier vocalist and
uniquely gifted guitarist..." WGN-Radio heralds “quite a crowd...
salivating over her playing.” SubNation magazine (outlet for Chicago’s
“happenings”) took note of Lorijo’s performance at a dozen clubs:
“Something about her brings to mind a female Lenny Kravitz... huge
stage presence... She plays the hell out of her guitar... and puts two
tons of heart into her singing.” The Windy City Times said, “Manley is
concerned with broad human values. In the powerful ‘Whatcha Doin'?’
she praises those who have fought for causes, but also urges her
audience to take stock of their personal values: ‘Up you mighty
people/ You can accomplish what you will/ But I say what, whatcha
doin'?’”
The 2008 Spring leg of Lorijo’s tour was highlighted by a month of smokin’
performances in-residence at Blue Heaven (Key West FL’s popular home
for live music and exotic
food, in historic Bahama Village, where
Ernest Hemingway once served as a boxing referee). “How remarkable is
she? Well, the nationally known and lauded guitarist/vocalist was once
credited with channeling Jimi Hendrix...” (Key West Citizen).
Lorijo’s songs are jettisoned by her unequivocal status as a premier
American guitarist. NY’s OutWords magazine started all the chatter:
"She makes magic through her music... channeling Jimi Hendrix through
her fingers... spectacular." When asked about the recurrent Hendrix
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Acomparisons, she shrugs and says, “I think it’s the kinetic
relationship we share with the guitar in live performance."
Like Richie Havens, with whom she has shared the stage, an undeniable
“sound of freedom” emanates from Lorijo’s guitar. But, hers is a
younger, alternative style -- folk, funk and blues roots intact. Her guitar work takes it to the greats.
Background Notes:
Lorijo Manley studied theatre at Northwestern, creating the
University's first women's performance troupe, Astarte Mettle, which
garnered Lorijo a TIME MAGAZINE COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. Over the
next decade, she logged 3,000 live music performances, between New York
and Chicago alone. Lorijo was an official performer at the Athlete's
Village, 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta. In 1998, her vocals were
showcased in the Native American Music Awards theme music, on A&E. She
has numerous television and radio appearance credits, including WBAI,
New York City; WNUR and WGN, Chicago; WAMC/NPR, Albany; WUMB, Boston.
In 2003, she won an arts grant to help produce NAKED. She “owns”
Manhattan’s abundant, alternative club scene. You might catch her
occasional show in the subways... What? Lorijo is devoted to her
“markets,” from busking to touring.
KJPR Publicity & Artist Relations
Karen Johnson
(career clients... Etta James, U2, Ringo Starr, Taj Mahal, Dennis
Hopper,
Kim Wilson, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tony Bennett, Andy Summers,
Keith Richards, Private Music, Warner Bros. Records,
Stony Plain Records, Musicians For Life... )
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LoriJo! It was such a brief moment you blew into town! WHEN WILL YOU RETURN? Ptown needs your voice!!!!! Plus I miss you, love you for spending your second of time here with me and have to take you to Brook who can't believe she missed you too.
Hi Lorijo! Your set was amazing! Thanks for coming out to the Venice SongFest! It was great getting to hear you play again! Have a wonderful week, and take care! (*^_^*)
The guest segment I did on "Focus in the Mix with Denise Ames" TV show that just aired on Charter and Time Warner Video On Demand cable systems is now posted at the top of our site! Denise along with co-host Ambre Lake (winner of Vh1’s Rock of Love II) interview me and we all had a ball! Inviting you to view it :)
Vic Parrino Colombo's Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) 323 254-9138
hey Lorijo thanks for your kind words love your sound, especially too late angel i see you are doing the talking stick a good friend of mine is performing your same night, see is coming in town for a mini tour, she just added it her name is julie gribble www.myspace.com/juliegribble
Lucky you in Santa Monica....try not to stay at the Ocean Park Inn!!! We know that place well...when you get back we would love to have you on! Really like the music! We could also do a phone interview and help you do a lil' promo for our west coast listeners....keep in touch!
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