I am a guitarist with a love for creating music! I have toured, and recorded with bands for many years, supported some of the uks leading acts, and won a few national awards along the way. My music is all written, played and produced by myself. I am by no means a great producer but I have fun giving it a go. Please listen to music and let me know what you think. And as a musician, I am always available if you need a guitarist for anything!
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Award winning Italian singer, songwriter Chiara Izzi has been described by Jazz Times as “a talent to be heard, admired and anticipated” after the release of her debut album “Motifs”. She started her musical path in Italy by learning to play the piano and performing very early. She developed a versatility thanks to a multitude of performances in Italy and abroad in Belgium, Switzerland, France, the United States, Finland and Germany, which led to her vocal mastery of traditional jazz alongside contemporary styles. Chiara’s sound is based on her own unique interpretation of a fusion of different genres, including jazz, pop and Mediterranean sounds.

Chiara’s International debut took place at the Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition in 2011, where she was awarded first prize by the living musical legend Quincy Jones. Following this award the vocalist was invited to open for Paco de Lucìa’s concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012.  Thanks to this award she had also the chance to record her debut album “Motifs” released by the New York based label Dot Time Records. The record has been presented in some well-known radio programs in Belgium, Holland, Italy and received notable reviews in the US on Jazz Times, All About Jazz, AXS, Midwest Record, to name of few.

She is currently living in New York and performs regularly around the city. Some of her notable performances occurred in prominent jazz venues such as The Blue Note NY, The Iridium, Sarasota Jazz Festival, Apollo Theater, Aspen Jazz Festival, Jazzahead, Smalls, Italian Embassy in Washington DC. She’s also graced the stage with some of the finest musicians, including Kevin Hays, Leon Parker, Jeff Hamilton, Aaron Goldberg, Bruce Barth, Eliot Zigmund, Warren Wolf, Anthony Wonsey, among many others. Chiara graduated with honors with a Masterʼs Degree in Jazz Music in Italy and she has caught the attention of and received remarkable appraisals from Quincy Jones, Bobby Watson, Benny Golson, Kevin Hays, Eliot Zigmund, Joel Frahm, Aaron Goldberg, David Kikosky, Greg Hutchinson, Jonathan Kreisberg, Dado Moroni and many others.

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“A talent to be heard, admired and anticipated” – Travis Rogers, Jazz Times

“Sister, you are very very talented!” – Quincy Jones

“Motifs is her debut recording and immediately reveals a study, lightly-accented voice with a well-scrubbed sensual vitality that is fresh and crisp…Izzi joins as a force of nature with prodigious scat chops” – Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

“She’s probably one of the best scatters out there right now, effortlessly melodic, effortlessly daring… jaw-dropping excitement for a new youthful wave of appreciation, and invention” – Carol Banks Weber, AXS

“Having traveled to and performed in Italy for the last 35 years, I have met many Italian rising stars and have seen them to go on to achieve international recognition. Chiara is one of those rising stars that I speak of. She has the talent, passion, devotion, musicianship, and professionalism that is required for success”. – Bobby Watson

“She has developed a distinctly original vocal style and understands the feeling of jazz in a deep way. Her performances never fail to inspire and always elicit the very best out of her sidemen”. – Joel Frahm

“One of the few artists that we all get the pleasure to meet a few times in our life”. Kevin Hays

I'm a singer-songwriter wanting to make the world a better place through music and kindness.

DONNA DEUSSEN is a jazz vocalist, currently living in Los Angeles, CA.   Her singing has been praised by John Gilbert of EJazzNews: "her phrasing is impeccable, her tone is clear, and is a joy to the ear of the discerning listener."  A magna cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Donna moved to the west coast after college, and has performed in venues all over California and Arizona.  She also works as a session singer and vocal coach.  Her highly acclaimed debut CD, "High Wire" featured Chick Corea's saxophonist Eric Marienthal.  
Her most recent CD, "On The Street Where You Live" is a collaboration with jazz guitarist Paul Weitz. The duo have been performing together for the last few years and have honed unique and exciting arrangements of jazz and pop standards, which appear on the CD.
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"Donna Deussen has a warmer than Tierney Sutton tone to her voice,and teams it up well with guitarist Paul Weitz  ..." - George Harris, jazzweekly.com

"...Her scat interludes fizz with the assurance of a lady who knows her Ella inside out..." - John McDonough, writer for Downbeat

“The first thing that caught my attention was Donna’s amazing voice; it’s smooth as silk and sexy as hell…" - Pam Baumgardner, VenturaRocks.com

“…In a highly competitive field, Donna Deussen is deserving of much more attention than she has been given.  Her time has come… the coupling of "Black Coffee" with "Night in Tunisia" highlights the recording with the most inventive of arrangements… Very good show, here!” – C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

Singer + Songwriter, Amy Serrata creates music intended to heal and bring people together. Amy’s interest in singing arose at an early age listening to the sounds of Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong to name a few. She sung in choir and started singing lessons when she was 10. As she got older she sung in several gospel choirs and through that experience continued to develop her vocal improvisational skills. In 2006, Amy started singing with the Stanford University Gospel Choir. A couple years later a friend of hers encouraged her to create her own music. She let that thought simmer and shortly after began to improvise using poetry that she had previously written. The melodies started to naturally form and she then worked with producers: Hyp, HMD & Nyambezi, Willie Norwood to collaborate with for her first self titled album, ‘Amy Serrata’.

Amy is currently working on her second release which will be an EP featuring production Apple Juice Kid (hes worked with YahZarah, Wale, 9th Wonder, The Foreign Exchange etc.), Ski from Camp Lo (hes worked with Jay Z, Mos Def and many other incredible people).  

To Contact Amy:
Web- www.amyserrata.com
Myspace - www.myspace.com/amyserrata
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Twitter- twitter.com/amyserrata
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TO BOOK AMY SERRATA CONTACT:
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