Melanie JB Charles

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Melanie JB Charles (actually Mélanie Jean Baptiste Charles , also Melanie jb Charles or Melanie JB Charles , * 1988 or 1989 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( vocals , flute , composition ) and songwriter .

Live and act

Charles, who has Haitian roots and grew up in Brooklyn, took piano and singing lessons from her parish organist when he was five. In addition to R&B and soul, early influences were the jazz vocals of Sarah Vaughan , Marlena Shaw and Nancy Wilson , whose album Cannonball Adderley (1961) had a strong impact on her. She also learned to play the flute at LaGuardia High School. She then studied at the New School University for Jazz and Contemporary Music .

Charles worked in the New York music scene since the 2000s; In 2010 she performed with Nicola Conte's big band in Italy, where she made her first recordings ( Free Souls ). In the following years she also played with Adison Evans ( Hero ), Reggie Quinerly ( Words to Love ) and Marcus Strickland ( People of the Sun , 2010). She is also co-founder of the music project Rat Habitat (with Jordan "Commissioner Wallace" Peters), with which she presented the EP Guns the Shoot Bubbles ; In the style of the band, influences from electronica , alternative rock and soul mix . She also took part in recordings for the Love Science Music and Gorillaz formations . In 2015 she toured France , accompanied by Jon Boutellier , Thibaut François , Olivier Truchot and Sangoma Everett . In the field of jazz, she was involved in seven recording sessions between 2006 and 2018. She also starred in The Boys Who Brunch (2014, directed by Mike Mitchell Jr. ).

Discographic notes

  • Gorillaz: Andromeda

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mélanie JB Charles, la nouvelle voix de Brooklyn. Le Progrès, February 6, 2015, accessed on February 19, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 16, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Charles, Melanie JB
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charles, Mélanie Jean Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (vocals, flute)
DATE OF BIRTH 1988 or 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City