Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
9. Juni 2019 · Nnenna Freelon - YouTube. Kravis Center. 9.63K subscribers. Subscribed. 152. 8.4K views 3 years ago. February 13, 2021 - February 14, 2021 As a six-time Grammy-nominee, jazz vocalist Nnenna...
11. Aug. 2007 · Subscribed. 690. 229K views 16 years ago. Nnenna Freelon live on tv in December of 1996, singing Round Midnight. Part of an ABC special called "A Celebration of America's Music", which was a...
20. Okt. 2018 · Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group The Tears Of A Clown (Live) · Nnenna Freelon Nnenna Freelon Live ℗ 2003 Concord Records, Inc. Released on: 2003-01-01 Composer Lyricist:...
FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATIONBEST CHILDREN’S MUSIC ALBUM"ANCESTARS"By Pierce Freelon + Nnenna Freelon. The official website of Grammy Nominated Jazz Vocalist / Composer / Actress / Playwright, Nnenna Freelon.
- Early Life and Education
- Career
- Babysong Workshops
- Personal Life
- Awards and Honors
- External Links
Freelon was born Chinyere Nnenna Pierce to Charles and Frances Pierce in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was raised. She has a brother Melvin and a sister named Debbie. As a young woman, she sang extensively in her community and the Union Baptist Church and at St. Paul AME. She recalled, "I started singing in the church, like so many others.......
In 1990, Nnenna Freelon went to the Southern Arts Federation's jazz meeting and met Ellis Marsalis. "That was a big turning point. At that time, I had been singing for seven years. Ellis is an educator and he wanted to nurture and help. What I didn't know at the time was that George Butler of Columbia Records was looking for a female singer. Ellis ...
Freelon is the national spokesperson for the National Association of Partners in Education, an organization with over 400,000 school and community partnership programs across the United States, dedicated to arts education. Freelon has maintained ties to her hospital-work as her jazz career has flourished. Her Babysong workshops, which she started a...
In 1979, she married architect Philip Freelon. She and her husband raised three children, Deen, Maya and Pierce, before she decided to perform professionally as a jazz singer. Their son Pierce Freelon is a hip hop artist, a Visiting Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University and the founder of the website Blackademics, for ...
Eubie Blake Award, Eubie Blake National Jazz InstituteBillie Holiday Award, Académie du JazzMulti GRAMMY® Award nominee Nnenna Freelon is known worldwide as a compelling and captivating live performer. Recently, Nnenna starred in the critically acclaimed show Georgia on My Mind: Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles - no stranger to the music of the master singer - she toured with Ray Charles, as well as many other great jazz artists ...
Chinyere Nnenna Freelon (* 28. Juli 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) ist eine US-amerikanische Jazzsängerin . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Preise und Auszeichnungen. 3 Diskographische Hinweise. 4 Lexigraphische Einträge. 5 Weblinks. Leben und Wirken.
