Jean Shy
Jean Shy (born September 19, 1950 in Chicago ) is an American singer of soul , blues , rhythm & blues , rock , jazz and gospel . She is also a songwriter and actress.
Shy comes from gospel singing and was signed to Chess Records at high school and then to Brunswick Records . Since her first appearance in 1978 in Frankfurt am Main in the Jazzkeller, she has often sung in Germany. In 1979 she had a disco hit with Night Dancer in the USA . In 1981 she performed at the SWF's Lahnstein Blues Festival with the Frankfurt City Blues Band . In 1983 her first album Maze (King Edward Records) was released. In 1984 the album Tough Enough followed with her own band, first called Streetblues and finally Jean Shy & The Shy Guys . She works alternately in Los Angeles, where she works in particular for television, among other things as an actress in series, with her own talk shows on cable channels and in advertising, and Germany. With the house title Summernation (with N678ALL featuring Jean Shy ) she landed in the British Dance Charts.
She changes between different musical genres from dance music to soul to rock and blues, gospel (on her first gospel album Amazing Grace 1999) and jazz, which she records and performs in particular with The Climax Band Cologne and from 2002 with the Polish Jazz Band Ball Orchestra . For her album The Blues Got Soul (2009, King Edward Records) she was nominated for the Blues Music Awards of the Blues Foundation. The subsequent release of the Jean Shy & Friends CD Blow Top Blues (2010, King Edward Records) was nominated for Blues Album of the Year by the Independent Music Awards.
Lexical entry
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
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| SURNAME | Shy, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz, blues, gospel, soul and pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |