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MP3 Lainie Cooke - It's Always You
12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo
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I started singing when I was a child. My first known recordings happened when I was three years old. Over the years I probably made a few others for family and friends, but it took a great many more years to make one that was available in stores and on line.
I am sure I have always been a jazz singer. My early influences were all women who had been band singers: Ella, Peggy, Sarah, Chris Connor and June Christy. And when I was fourteen years old that’s what I was too. Singing with bands and small combos at country clubs and in the last of the old ballrooms left in my home state of Minnesota.
By the time I got to College I was contemplating a life in Musical Comedy having received a Scholarship in Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. Two years later I was off to New York and shortly after I found myself with a few jazz gigs in clubs in New York and Conn. But the road never felt good to me and when I was offered a job doing some voiceovers for Cremora (both the voice over and the jingle) and not long after that found an agent in the voiceover field – well, it seemed that was the answer for me. Certainly, it was at the time and I let voiceover work support singing and the rest of my life.
I have spent well over twenty years as a VO actor and coach. I am currently the National Recording Secretary of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and a few years ago I completed the Feldenkrais training, which changed the way I sing, teach and breathe.
In 2003, I released my first CD “Here’s to Life” on the Harlemwood label with the help of my good friends Voza Rivers and Jamal Joseph.
I am a trained actor who is a jazz singer. I am a jazz singer who is a trained actor. The most important thing I can do is sing from the heart and tell the truth.
In my live performances I have always strived to have the songs I sing tell some kind of story; one song building on the other. Historically, the emphasis is almost always on the so-called joy of love. I’ve shied away from exploring my very deep feelings about the other side of love. This CD is about that other side. It is about love found and love lost, heartbreak, yearning and devotion. It is about all the sides of love I have experienced and imagine that everyone else has too. I didn’t know that I was making this CD when I started. When I finished and saw the list of tunes I was somewhat surprised that those are the ones that came out of me now. Like I said…singing the truth.
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