Lyrical storyteller. Soulful cellist. Dynamic singer-songwriter. That’s SHANA TUCKER. Her unique genre of ChamberSoul™ weaves together jazz, roots folk, acoustic pop, and a touch of R&B, into melodies that echo in your head for days. She’s the rare performer you’ve never seen the likes of before—and one you’ll never forget. 

Shana’s ChamberSoul is equal parts dynamic storytelling paired with rich, deep music that sits down next to you and puts its arm around your shoulders. “I’m intrinsically drawn to acoustic instruments because of their resonance, warmth, and intimacy,” she says. “ChamberSoul is all about the conversations music ignites…it brings musicians and audiences closer, and makes the music tangible, no matter how large or small the room is.” 

A sought-after collaborator, Shana has performed and recorded with legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Bennie Maupin, jazz flutist and composer Nicole Mitchell, and Grammy-nominated artists The Foreign Exchange (NuSoul/R&B), Nnenna Freelon (jazz) and Pierce Freelon (children’s). Recent composition/dance collaborations include When We Were Queens and They Are All, structured improvisational performance experiences presented with Culture Mill’s Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan; Noula by Gaspard & Dancers; and Continuing To Tell, a multidisciplinary public-space performance by Proxemic Media highlighting the history of Civil Rights in Durham, NC. Cello performance credits include Overland, The History of White People in America, American Masters: Decoding Watson and Paul Robeson: Here I Stand on pbs.org. Currently, Shana has also served as co-host and contributing songwriter for Rootle’s Block Party Live! @ Home! on pbsnc.org.

Other compositional highlights of Shana’s career involve scoring music for television and theatrical productions, including OWN Network’s The Legacy of Black Wall Street; I Love My Hair When It’s Good: & Then Again When It’s Defiant and Impressive by Chaunesti Webb; Just Another Lynching: An American Horror Story by Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins;; Make/Believe by Murielle Elizeon and Tommy Noonan; The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Good by Andrea Woods; and “Surrender” from Suddenly I See by Kristin Taylor.

Shana is a recipient of several grant awards for artistry and arts administration leadership, including United Arts Council (Raleigh, NC);  two Nevada Arts Council grants, one of which is the prestigious Artist Fellowship for her exemplary work as a Performing Artist; as an arts leader/nonprofit organization leader from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust, Triangle Community Foundation, and more. She has served on several nonprofit arts organizations’ board of directors or advisory boards, including Blair Publisher, Washington Women in Jazz, and North Carolina Presenters Consortium.

A front-line advocate for arts education, Shana believes that approaching academics from an artistic perspective encourages innovation, critical thinking, and self-confidence. She recently completed a three-year tenure as Executive Director for Kidznotes, an El Sistema-inspired, music-for-social change organization that provides free instruments and music lessons to K - 12th grade students attending Title I schools in the Triangle area of NC. Shana has worked with educators (Pre-K through college and beyond) to integrate the arts into existing curriculum, thereby transforming schools, knowledge retention, and students’ love of learning through her work as an A+ Schools of North Carolina Fellow, and a teaching artist with United Arts Council, Durham Arts Council, and Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.

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Smoothing out Hampton Roads & Washington, DC radio its Jay Lang, Author of his 1st Motivational Book “Wisdom From The Jazzman”, GM/Station Manager of Hampton University’s 88.1 WHOV, Producer & CEO of the Church Street Jazz Series (10 years to present), Part Time announcer at Howard University’s 96.3 WHUR, the former host of DC’s Smooth Jazz 105.9’s Lights Out Washington, now host of “Lights Out Hampton Roads” on Smooth 88.1 WHOV (www.whov.org).  From a broadcasting family, his father, the late Jimmy "The Gator" Lang was a Savannah radio legend with a career spanning 45 years. Prior to coming to Hampton University’s WHOV as GM, he was a top rated Afternoon Drive/Evening Air Personality at Washington, DC’s Smooth Jazz 105.9 and Program Director & Evening Personality at WJCD Smooth Jazz 105.3 in Norfolk, VA.

He began his career in 1974 (50 years ago) in Savannah, Georgia at the age of 14 as a high school announcer at 1230AM WSOK in his hometown. As Program & Music Director for 11 years, he engineered the success of WPLZ-Magic 99/Richmond. The earlier years included programming WENZ/Richmond, MD of WSOK/Savannah, GA MD and gracing the airwaves of WIGO/Atlanta as a weekend announcer while attending the National School of Radio & TV Broadcasting.

In addition to working on air in Richmond, he became entertainment editor for Night Moves Magazine, enjoyed a successful 4 year run from 1982-1986 as Host/Producer of Soundtrack, a weekly TV entertainment show on NBC Richmond/WWBT 12. worked in a few acting parts in films, produced records, produces live concerts, and served as producer/host of Hampton Roads Weekend Magazine (a weekly one hour public affairs program)."

Jay is a professional Master Of Ceremonies and a veteran 31 year internationally known Voiceover Talent/Actor with Studio Center Worldwide Audio. A avtive member of SAG/AFTRA, his voice is heard on Church’s Chicken 2023 TV Commercial Campaigns, currently in The Museum Of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC, on Time Life Music’s “Soul Of The 70’s”, “The Soul Train DVD Collection”, "Body & Soul," "Wedding Songs", “Soul Fantasy Collection", "Body & Soul Of The 90's", “Body & Soul Of The 80’s”, “Midnight Soul Infomercial”, “Midnight Fire” & "Best of Peabo Bryson” TV commercials, internet based Jazz Club Channel, CBN, NASA, The Williamsburg Airport Overhead P.A. Announcements, District Cablevision, Hardees, McDonalds, Comcast, MGM Grand Casino, Anheuser Busch, United Way, XM Satellite, Kindercare, Heineken, DC Lottery, HUPTI, Verizon Wireless and The First Baptist Church Of Glenarden as well as many others now airing worldwide throughout the United States, Europe, The Caribbean, Africa and England.

He's addition he was the Personal Manager for Ashley Nichole, Season 6 Actress from The Bad Girls Club on The Oxygen Network, President/CEO of Blue Pyramid Productions LLC (www.bluepyramidproduction.com), Founder & Chairman of the HJ Lang Foundation (www.hjlangfoundation.org) Chairman Of The Board for Visit Norfolk ( The Norfolk Convention & Visitors Bureau, Board Governor of NANOE (National Association of Non-Profit Organizations & Executives, is a member of The 100 Black Men Of Greater Washington, DC, Inc and was formerly the worldwide booking agent for the legendary 80’s old school band The Blackbyrds.

His other endeavors includes his longtime passion as a musician & songwriter. He was co-writer of Ken Navarro's Top 5 Smooth Jazz single "You Are Everything" from his CD Love Coloured Soul & "Standing Tall" the title track on the Bob Baldwin's CD Stand Tall (Bob coincidently is his daughter Kiara’s Godfather).

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