Recording Artist, Singer/Songwriter from Louisville, KY

Singer/songwriter, genre style explorer, performer, multi instrumentalist 

July is a melding of 2 spirits trying to be human: Kim Weber and John D'Amato.  You will find a sampling of their music here, such as John's  Crooked Mile, which in live shows shifts into Kim's ethereal Shed Shadow, featuring her songwriting and vocals and D'Amato's lead guitar.  Keep checking back to watch them create more music together.  This is just the beginning.

OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

Management:
American International Artists, Inc.
Cynthia B. Herbst, President
+1 (518) 686-0972
Cynthia@aiArtists.com

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

The multiple Grammy-winning catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment.

Retired Engineer turned singer/songwriter.

The Strypes are 4-piece rhythm and blues band hailing from Cavan, Ireland, formed in 2011 by Ross Farrelly (lead vocals/harmonica), Josh McClorey (lead guitar/vocals), Pete O'Hanlon (bass guitar/harmonica) and Evan Walsh (drums).

The group has spent the past 18 months launching their explosive R&B assault on the clubs and festivals of Ireland, the UK and Europe, viciously hammering out a no-nonsense blues repertoire drawing from the songbooks of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Slim Harpo and more with the passion and venom of British blues groups such as Dr. Feelgood, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and The Animals. 

Having already been met with critical acclaim from greats such as Jeff Beck and Paul Weller and been tipped by NME as the No. 1 new band to watch, it seems things can only get better for The Strypes.

Can you add to the flow? I know this sounds crazy, but I want to turn all this  into something to dance with.  I hear all kinds of funky beats and grooves behind these songs, but don't know quite how to do it......Dee-Lite and Parliament meets Moby and yes, Dido, even Portishead, with a little gospel and a lot of everlasting Love all the way through.  Can you help me?  Can you hear it through the rough of these recordings?  Feedback, ideas, and expertise welcomed.....<3

If you check out the link below, you can also find me performing with By the Bushel, in the good company of Sean T. Johnson,  Mark DeWitt, Todd Brandes and Andrew Critchelow.  
Who am I?  A songwriter and vocalist with an eclectic range of influences and a unique style and voice. I started with a love of music, a need to write, and a dream of making music that carried over from childhood, and stepped up to the microphone 13 years ago. Since then I have performed my songs as a lead singer in the band Mamakitty Southwood, who released the album Surely You Jest in 2009, and in the band By the Bushel, who released the album No Shade, No Shelter in 2015. I am also a member of Nashville Songwriters’ Association International and The Heartland Songwriters’ Association of Kentucky. 
This new route, and new piano music, is completely different for me, and I am thrilled to be on this adventure!


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