NANCY KELLY: POWERFUL AND CAPTIVATING!
By Maximillien de Lafayette
POWERFUL!!
A tornado of music! Explosive, mesmerizing and
dangerously captivating Diva!! And there is nothing you can do about it,
except, sit, listen, and witness how explosive torch singers capture the
moment and take the audience by storm.
Her
performance on stage is the culmination of life in all its forms,
passages, seasons and adventures. A performance which explodes from within,
from the depth of her inner universe, abundant with wisdom, experience,
knowledge, ups and downs, guts and reflections, beauty and reflective
hesitations, mesmerizing personality and unsurpassed talent. This superb
artist lives her experiences and metamorphoses with life itself. Life is
crystallized on stage when Kelly appears. When Kelly begins to sing, to dance,
to play the piano, the drums, the bass and tease her audience. Ten years of
classical piano training along with vocal lessons from the Eastman School of
Music, as well as drama and dance instruction have made Nancy Kelly the
perfect performer.
Her repertoire has no limits, for her versatility transcends all frontiers and dimensions of known and unknown musical genres. She is operatic, Jazzy, lyrical, classical, classy, refined, outrageous, stunning, traditional and progressive. This is how we explain her universal appeal wherever she goes and wherever she performs from Singapore to Canada and from here to eternity. She has been compared to Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald. But her fans believe that Nancy Kelly is the “Great Nancy Kelly!
And
I think that, this woman is an almost perfect jazz singer" Nancy
described herself as a cross between old style saloon singer and a hard
swingin' jazz singer. "I’m a bebop
singer at heart, but from a stylistic standpoint the music I perform covers
mainstream jazz, soft pop and cabaret. I’m also from the old school that Ella
Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra belong to in that I love to
entertain an audience." When Asked why upstate New York Kelly
replied: "I
realize that living along the shore of Lake Ontario might not be as
advantageous for a jazz career as say, living in Manhattan, Bit this is a
beautiful part of the country and it provides me with the type of spiritual
connection to my roots that enables me to recharge creativity between gigs."
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