Rondi charleston biography
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- Rondi Charleston is a jazz vocalist and songwriter.
- Charleston is a jazz vocalist who matches superior musicianship with a unique ability to craft resonant narratives.
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Rondi Charleston
Rondi Charleston | |
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| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, journalist |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Motéma, LML, Emmamuse |
| Website | rondicharleston.com |
Musical artist
Rondi Charleston is a jazz vocalist and songwriter (in collaboration with Lynne Arriale). She is also an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning television journalist and investigative reporter for Primetime.[1]
Early life
Charleston was born in Chicago,[2] and grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood, the only daughter of an English professor father and voice teacher/singer mother. Her father, a jazz enthusiast, played jazz piano, and took her to a performance by Duke Ellington, where she met the man. After performing as a guest artist with the University of Chicago's theatre program, she enrolled at Juilliard as a theatre major, but soon transferred to music. She also studied journalism at New York University, desiring to work with Charles Kuralt.[3]
Journalism career
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Rondi Charleston
Jazz vocalist Rondi Charleston can easily count In My Life as her most innovative project to date. It is a lyrical testament to Rondi’s life story of reinvention and determination. The 14-track CD includes Rondi’s first two original compositions, Ancient Steps and Telescope, both songs having quickly become audience favorites and receiving high critical praise. The 11-track bonus DVD contains the first live performance ever documented and presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Of the new album, recorded at Bennett Studios, Rondi says, "It's like coming home, but with vast, invaluable life experiences, peppered with some wisdom, which is the treasure-trove from which I draw my inspiration.” For Rondi, the search for truth and core of the story and lyrics of her songs are paramount. "I think of it as deep sea diving,” she says. “My job is to dive down deep and bring back the shining pearl to share with everyone. What drives me is my passion to live and breathe my honesty, truth and integrity into every song and story. That's what I hope reson
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Motéma Music recording artist, Rondi Charleston, is an award winning jazz singer/lyricist/composer whose work has appeared in film, TV and on stage throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her most recent album, Signs of Life, climbed the Jazz Week charts for ten consecutive weeks and has critics raving; JazzTimes says “she is a songwriter whose poetic, narrative, and compositional skills are comparable to such modern masters as Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.”Touring nationally in support of Signs of Life, Rondi and her all-star band gave sold out performances from coast to coast – from Yoshi’s in San Francisco to Mayne Stage in Chicago to Joe’s Pub in New York with TV appearances on such prestigious stations as PBS Chicago Tonight and ABC’s Windy City Live. She has collaborated with some of the foremost jazz luminaries of our time including Fred Hersch, Lynne Arriale and Dave Stryker. Rondi was chosen for the Women in Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and has played Birdland and BlueNote with her quartet in New York City. Her original song, “The
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