Video at the Festiblues Montreal "Bayou Love Child"
Good Bye New Orleans (song on Katrina) performed at Festiblues Montreal
The band generally playing with me is composed of : Mar Todani (best blues guitar player from Japan, toured with Big Joe Turner) - Pili Tempo is on bass (he played for Tony Coleman) - Damien Cornelis (FR) ..boards or Fabien Saussaye (played with Tony Coleman) - Larry Crockett (USA) on drums ( played for Liz Mc Comb, Elton John and many others) or Pat Machenaud (FR) (played with Gery Joe Weise)or Denis Palatin
Nina Van Horn live at the Jazz Festival in Corbeil France with special guests : Phil Bonin on guitar and Jean Jacques Milteau on harp Dirty TB Blues and CC Rider
I am basically a Rock singer bringing my rock attitude in the field of Blues...Although many people compare my voice to Janis Joplin, I have been influenced more by people like Bette Middler (cause she's a dancer, actor on stage), Etta James, Koko Taylor....for their attitude and to Joan Baez or Dylan for the lyrics (they are very important to me wether it is a cover or my own songs to perform)
Sounds Like
Hope it sounds like me !!! But people often says my band has the energy of the Silver Bullet Band and call me "the french Bob Seger" !
My show goes from sweetness of acoustics to the strengh of electric guitars, mixing songs more political with hope for humanity !
Her first love was Russian and Classical Dances .
After exploring the world of Opera (where she felt a little restricted as a « Soprano Colorature »),she created a Russian Dances & Songs Company of Ballets along with her today..s companion and also performed Russian & Gypsies songs. From all these years of World Tours, she has kept a powerful vocal technique and a great corporal expression on stage. She settles in the USA and keeps on touring in High schools, Universities, Jails and Veterans Home and finally chooses Texas. Nina goes on tour across the USA where she became one with the landscapes and people she met. She appears in some Charity Concerts for the FARM AID, already concerned by Globalisation... The Tour brings her to New Orleans where she finds a new passion : BLUES.. Finally not so far from the Gypsy songs where you can also express pain, love and joy..Nina understands that very quickly.. she dives into her memory and gets loose with her voice like a Janis Joplin to whom she is often compared... She meets DAN AKROYD, also great Blues lover, who push her to go further on into that music of Soul and Heart.
NINA sings more and more, BETTE MIDLER, CHUCK BERRY or ERIC BURDON among others ask her to play as a supporting act as they appreciate the true « Rock Energy » and her feeling on stage. NINA learns a lot with those monsters, and feeling ready, she goes back to France to create her own Band.
The MIDNIGHT WOLF BAND was born and composed of musicians corresponding to her : generous, spontaneous and truthful.. her wolves ! !
Like the Silver Bullet Band of Bob Seger, NINA shares and communicates her energy and her last CD « NINA LIVE .. and ALIVE IN PARIS » is the living proof. (distribution by CRISTAL RECORDS & XIII bis) Her new collaboration with Neal Black and Lucky Peterson in her new album « From Huntsville to Jordan » prove that Nina is not tired to travel in the World of Blues and Texas Rock. In this more mature CD Nina express herself on subject such as Executions in Huntsville, mistreatment of our planet or wars...... NINA VAN HORN is a singer definitely watching the world she lives in, she likes also to compose her songs et to tell us stories of simple people met one day in Louisiana or somewhere else... She likes her Blues with moments more Jazz or Rock but always with the same joy to share it with her « wolves » and the public in a very communicative way ! Her voice reminds Janis Joplin or Bette Middler, her energy on stage a little of Tina Turner but her sincerity and enthusiasm wherever she goes are obvious : To share her pleasure with her public !
Great pictures from BLUESPIXEL in Verviers at the SPIRIT OF 66 - March 2008 and Bierbeek Blues Festival Belgium - april 2008 www. bluespixel. eu
Life is a garment that you wear And then take off without a tear Moving on to what is new And placing your trust in what is true.
Now the same may be said for moving through each day Doing your best to find the right way Remember to stretch your wings to fly on high Where love rules the heavens and joy meets the sky.
Take on what you will becoming just who you are Make changes that are suited to living inside a star And be there for each other no matter come what may For there is your connection to inspire you each day.
Walk now with your steps as an actor plays their part Forget about everything but what comes from the heart Use this moment to set yourself back on course And glide through with certainty the greatest central force.
You are that which you are seeking. Know this. Feel this. Become this.
hello ' miss Nina V H .merci for l' accept! will be you with the " 27 juil. 2008 21: Jack' S Café" " Cagnes on seas! " friendship ... *_ *_ *_ *_ *_ *_ *_
hello Nina Van Horn ,C'est barney and CO~~*(lorgues fest one blues 2007) suis le webmaster & amis de Paco Diaz, pour le 27 au Jack' S Café,(soirée privé ou non privé)?!! on aimerais bien venir dire bonjour et écoutée du bon blues and rock!!! yea!a bientot 'Nina Van Horn and le webmaster* ~~amitié de la cote d'~~*Azur.
Thanks for coming over and checkin out the new Video, and for you kind words (Very Cool). I gotta get my butt over to France and Jam with YOU!!! Any room at the Inn for a Boogie Woogie Ivory Pounder? Thanks again, Lee
Hi Nina 8) Gas is too much $$$ for us to take a holiday so we are staying close to home this summer! When we strike it rich we will visit you in the City of Lights!!! Until then,have a rockin' week my friend! (((hugs))) Lisa
