Amy Denio
Amy Denio (born June 9, 1961 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American multi-instrumentalist ( alto saxophone , guitar, electric bass , accordion ) and singer in the border area between creative jazz and art rock .
Live and act
As a child, Denio first studied the piano and then learned to play the guitar himself. After graduating from Kingswood School (now Cranbrook Kingswood School ) in Bloomfield Hills , a wealthy suburb of Detroit, she studied at Colorado College and then at Hampshire College, where she graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Music. In Northern India she studied singing with Dhanashree Pandit Rai . Between 1985 and 1999 she worked as a programming office coordinator at Yesco Foreground Music 's headquarters .
Denio founded the band project Tone Dogs , which prepared the grunge scene in Seattle and whose debut album "Ankety Low Day" was selected for a Grammy nomination in 1990 . In 1990 she was one of the founders of the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet . In Europe she performed with Wädi Gysi and Chris Cutler in the freerock band (ec) Nudes . In 1993 she played with Tom Coras Curlew . She also worked with the folk cabaret Die Knödel and with Die Resonanz Stanonczi . In 2000 she founded The Danubians with Pavel Fajt and Hungarian musicians . Since 2008 she has been a member of the Balkan punk band Kultur Shock . She also wrote radio plays as Seattle sound and played with Fred Frith , Guy Klucevsek , Pauline Oliveros , Derek Bailey and Chuck D .
Lexigraphic entries
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
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| SURNAME | Denio, Amy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts , United States |