Vivacious Records presents
Grace Cerrone

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Bio

Participating Artists

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Quotes

“This girl can blow.”
- Alan Paul, Singer, The Manhattan Transfer

“Grace has a fabulous voice.”
- Seth Riggs

“In production on her first Jazz album on Vivacious Records. Vocal styling of the great Jazz singers from the 1950’s.”
- IOmusic

Grace Cerrone….what an incredible voice. She’s destined for much bigger things."
- Steve Cohen, Fan from California

“Grace is so beautiful, talented, humorous, sincere, and so sexy! I know she’s going to the top!”
- John Wolfeson, Fan from Texas

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Grace Cerrone

Grace Cerrone, an American of full Italian descent, brings back the class and internationally recognized talent of fine singers. Her rich vocal styling and lush arrangements are reminiscent of her influences; great singers like Kiri Te Kanawa, Victoria de los Angeles, Dawn Upshaw, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Chris Conner, Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald modernized with a splash of Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Patricia Kaas, Lisa Stansfield, and Michael Bublé. Grace croons new life into classic Jazz classics, while captivating audiences with her vocal beauty, original songs, lyrics, and arrangements.

Grace Cerrone trained as an actress beginning at age six. A professional actress and singer at eleven years old, Grace worked steadily in national voice-over, theatre, television, and even toured with a New York Equity cast for the musical, “Gypsy” performing as Baby Louise by the age of 13. She was represented in New York City by child manager, Muriel Karl. She studied operatic and classical voice performance with the Metropolitan Opera’s Gabriella Tucci at the prestigious Indiana University School of Music. After committing to follow her heart to a career to singing, Grace began performing live and recording with renowned Boston jazz pianist, Al Vega and his stellar group of jazz musicians. Soon after those recordings, Grace moved from her hometown of Boston to Los Angeles where she joined the Life Choir, a professional Gospel group under renowned musical director for Aretha Franklin, H.B. Barnum. During her time in Los Angeles, Grace has performed or recorded with legends like Natalie Cole and Dionne Warwick, and at benefits hosted by Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as well as others.

Grace is preparing to film her first DVD in concert with a symphony orchestra- a combination of original pop classical song combined with hits combined with an organic taste of Jazz. Special musical guest performance by Flamenco, Spanish and Classical Guitarist, David Maldonado. An all-star lineup to perfectly compliment Grace's voice is sure to produce an experience you can live over and over again. Europe is already calling.

Grace Cerrone is the future of pop classical song, and the world is all ears.

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Participating Artists
Schedule permitting, performances and works will feature these prominent artists as well as others:

David Maldonado (flamenco, spanish & classical guitar)
Jeffrey Silverman (composer, orchestrator)

 


David Maldonado
Raised in a family where playing music was as natural as breathing, David Maldonado's early influences encompassed a broad range of music, most notably Classical and Flamenco. By the age of eight, David was already an accomplished violinist, immersed in the Classic world of Bach and Mozart. When he was ten, Davids father gave him his first and only guitar lesson. That lesson awoke in him a passion that has never wavered. By the age of fourteen, David was performing classical guitar concerts at the University of Arizona. Two years later, he began to study under the world-renowned classical guitarists, Celin and Pepe Romero, and their father, the late Celedonio Romero, from whom David learned his incredible rasqueado technique.

The sounds of his childhood, Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi, complemented by Spanish masters such as Sabicas, inspired David to explore and perfect a broad range of musical techniques and styles. His music reflects the beauty and structure inherent in classical composition, at the same time bringing forth the passion, upbeat rhythms and fascinating gypsy scales redlent of Flamenco. The combination of these, along with David's incredible energy and stage presence, invokes a passionate response from audiences of all ages, taking them along on an exotic musical journey. Maldonado's CD, "Danza", released by Flamenco Records offers an enticing introduction to this unique infusion of Flamenco, Jazz and Classical stylings. Written and performed by David, these seemingly simple and happy, sometimes melancholic, melodies evoke a sense of wonder once you recognize the speed and precision of the artist brought to light by the intricate scales coursing through every song. Music for the world.

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