| ● JENNIE WALKER PROFILED ON OVERPLAY JAPANESE BLOG ● |
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| 2008-05-17 00:16:59 |
JENNIE WALKER
カレン・カーペンターやジャクソン５、コモドアーズ、バーバラ・ストライサンド、
エルトン・ジョンやマドンナ、さらに彼女の住むニューヨーク出身のバンドであるブロンディや
アメリカ人としては珍しくロビー・ウィリアムスからも影響を受けたシンガーソングライター
小さいころは、母親の影響でオペラ音楽に興味を持ち、早い段階からピアノを弾いて、
常に音楽が自分の周りにある環境で育つ。
楽曲の中でマイナーコードを多く使う彼女は、
「私の曲は大人っぽさがテーマで、みんなが自分の人生で経験するような事を歌にしているの。
心の奥底にある気持ちを正直に表現するように努力してるわ。」
とoverplayのインタビューで話している。
彼女は音楽以外にもチャリティー活動にも積極的に参加していて、
今後は２００６年に完成させたアルバムの曲を、チャリティーイベントなどで披露する予定
上記のアーティスト意外にも、オリビア・ニュートンジョンやセリーヌ・ディオンといった
大御所女性シンガーが好きな人にはオススメ
ただし、ニューヨークの特徴でもある革新的なアートっぽさは感じられない。
Overplayの彼女のページはこちら ジャンル-Pop 出身地-ニューヨーク
LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.p-rock.net/overplay-jp/?p=72
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| ● Jennie Walker Bio ● |
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| 2008-05-11 12:27:49 |
&Jennie Walker has built a bridge between her two distinct passions: Philanthropy and Music. Her charity work started in the mid 80s with the Georgia Music Industry Association and lead to a career in the non-profit sector with President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta, Georgia and concluding with the Rockefeller family in New York City before starting her own fundraising consultancy. In 2008, Jennie set aside her consulting to become Director of External Relations for Opus 118 Harlem School of Music. All the while, she maintained a serious side pursuit of singing and songwriting. The music and charity overlapped when she led globally known philanthropists through trips in Mexico, South Africa and Mozambique while working for Synergos Institute, and during each trip, was asked, by David Rockefeller’s daughter, Peggy Dulany, to perform her own music in a variety of settings, including for a group of rural women and even Nelson Mandella’s wife, Graca Machel in Mozambique as well as teenagers at the Love Life Center in Johannesburg and a Salvation Army facility in Soweto.
Jennie is now a sought after performer for a variety of charitable causes and has performed for the George Best Foundation, World Hunger Year, and a September 11th Tribute Concert. She founded The Connective Panel Series, to educate individuals who aspire to a career in the music business, which also serves as a charitable fundraiser, donating 100% of profits to charity. Jennie is a member of the prestigious Artists Against Hunger Poverty Program of WHY (World Hunger Year).
She will be releasing her debut CD, produced by Grammy nominated producer, Tommy Faragher, in 2008. Most recently, she has released her song “It’s Our Time” inspired by Senator Hillary Clinton’s Primary win in New Hampshire. The song has gained media attention through blogs on the internet and through a variety of newspapers in the U.S. Her song “Your Father Your Mother” reached #1 for three consecutive weeks on the Pop Charts for the premier UK (London) indie band site Overplay (www.overplay.co.uk/jenniewalker). Her song "Black Hat" was the Grand Prize Winner in the Overplay Play & Rate Competition in August 2007. She made her London singing debut in May 2006 at the premier venue, The Bedford.
View her hit MusicVideo of the song "It's Our Time" currently playing on YouTube at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzKcpTfXJc8
You can learn more about Jennie at www.jenniewalker.com
You can join as a friend on Myspace at www.myspace.com/jenniewalker.
You can purchase songs on Overplay at www.overplay.co.uk/jenniewalker
You can purchase songs on itunes at www.itunes.com
You can following this artist on www.twitter.com/msjenniewalker
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