Six-time GRAMMY® Award-nominee Nnenna Freelon has received her sixth nomination with Best Jazz Vocal Performance nomination for Blueprint Of A Lady: Sketches of Billie Holiday on Concord Records. Freelon has earned the Billie Holiday Award, the Eubie Blake Award, and been nominated twice for the Lady Of Soul Award. She inspired an enthusiastic standing ovation from 20,000 when she performed on television’s 43rd annual GRAMMY Awards. Freelon has shared the stage with Ray Charles, Al Jarreau, Aretha Franklin, and performed for the Society of Singers, Variety’s Children’s Charity, Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and at the most famous jazz festivals and concert venues around the globe. She is an educator, activist, and recording artist.
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“Freelon…sang with exquisite musicality and an unerring sense of swing.” – Los Angeles Times
“Freelon continues to grow and deepen as a vocalist…but still with a crystalline, impeccably tuned voice, with often imaginative, percolating, funk-based backing from her combo.” – Daily Variety
“Singer Nnenna Freelon presents such a distinct problem in her performances. She does so many things so well, it’s hard to see her strong suit. Would that we all had that trouble.” – Pittsburgh Tribune Review
DISCOGRAPHY:
Better Than Anything: The Quintessential Nnenna Freelon (2008)
Blueprint Of A Lady: Sketches of Billie Holiday (2005)
Voices Of Concord Jazz - Live at Montreux - Various Artists (2004)
Live (2003)
Church: Songs of Soul and Inspiration - Various Artists (2003)
Tales of Wonder (2002)
The Visit - Soundtrack (2001)
Soulcall (2000)
What Women Want - Soundtrack (2000)
Maiden Voyage (1998)
Monk On Monk - with T.S. Monk (1997)
Shaking Free (1996)
A Concord Jazz Christmas 2 - Various Artists (1996)
Listen (1994)
Heritage (1993)
Heart Vision - with Yusef Lateef (1992)
Jazz Orchestra-Carnegie Hall Concert - with Toshiko Akiyoshi (1992)
Nnenna Freelon (1992)
Yusef Lateef's Encounter - with Yusef Lateef (1991)
Hi Miss, thank you so much for addin' me. You're a real great artist, a diva! Have a wonderful day in music, birds are singing for you today. Jam Huon (France)
I really enjoyed your music this past Saturday at the Cool Jazz Festival in Hillsborough, NC. You were ravishing in beauty, and your performance was Stellar. Whether you are performing before the President at the White House or a star studded audience at the Grammy Awards, you always bring and give your best for your audience, no matter who they are, and I love you for that. Thank you for all of the years of great music and performing. You and Dee Dee Bridgewater are truly the last queens of scat. Love you much. God bless you and your family richly. Eph 3:20/Jer 29:11/Mark 11:23-24
SALUDOS,GREETINGS NnennA FreeloN..!! HOPE EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL WITH YOU.. STOPPING BY TO LEAVE SOME RHYTHMS,DRUMS, AND FLOWERS..!! HAVE A PRODUCTIVE WEE K.. LOVE & HUGS.. G.PERRY.
hello Nnenna:) I'm so happy that i find you. you are one of my jazz vocal inspirations:) yeah. i love what you doing! You are allways waiting in my page:) Ruta
Hi Nnenna, it's really great to have as a friend of JMR. Your chance to help keep Jazz Alive! Come join our cause, Jazz Alive! May the splendid spirit of Jazz, remain with you Madam, Jazzy Vibes to you!
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