Name: Lush Life by Kelly Bird
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: Demo for an upcoming album. Dave Gleason accompanist.

Demo for an upcoming album. Dave Gleason accompanist.

Lush Life

A peaceful piece of music I wrote, played with a couple of friends in my livingroom. Close your eyes, relax and enjoy.

Bliss Tree

Kelly Bird. 

When you hear her, you know.

Originally from Upstate New York, Kelly is a songwriter, vocal coach & producer and is perhaps best known in her hometown as the “Jingle Queen" of New York’s Capital Region having performed, written and produced countless radio and television commercials, both regionally and nationally. She is known not only for her amazing sound and dead-on vocal technique, but also for her exceptional reputation working with clients, studio staff and fellow musicians. 

She’s a vocalist’s vocalist; breathing heightened attention to detail into her work.
 
Her versatility of styles is unparalleled. She is in high demand as a classical soloist, jazz vocalist, Broadway belter and rock/pop/country singer.

As a session singer, Kelly has collaborated with countless artists. A few include Marty Wendell, Happy Rhodes, Ben Okafor, Joel Chadabe and film composer Peter Schwartz. In 2006, she was invited to Cyprus where she performed a Christmas Concert joined by the renowned Greek singer Kalliopi Vetta.  Most recently, Kelly had the pleasure of singing for the New York City Ballet's production of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
 
Kelly has enjoyed an ongoing relationship with the Music Industry Program at The College of St. Rose in Albany, NY for more than 15 years as an adjunct faculty member, providing private instruction in vocal training, songwriting & production, and initiating the Vocal Department’s first “open jam” style Repertoire Class where students develop their songwriting skills as well as their vocal performance.
 
You can find Kelly and KELROD on Facebook.  Wonderful Christmas to Come will be available for online purchase 12/12/12 at AMAZON.COM.

REVIEWS OF PRIOR RECORDINGS:

An “outstanding new album…that heats up with lead singer Kelly Bird’s velvety, full-bodied vocals.”
      - The L.A. Times’ review of The Mother Goose Jazz Band CD “Go With the Flow” 

"… does it ever fly, propelled by the dusky, soulful contralto of lead singer Kelly Bird.”
      -  Family Fun Magazine review of “Go With the Flow”


Lush Life

Kelly Bird

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