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"Insider" and "Tougher" are duets with my friend Steve Quinney.
" Perfect People" "Pretty as a Picture" and "Limelight" are collaborations with Grammy-nominated producer John Custer. They are all unedited roughs. I'll be in the studio soon with John doing a full length CD.Thanks for listening!
Ghezzi debuted her first recording in April 1997, Taking No Prisoners, a mix of r&b, blues, originals & soulful rock. Her 2nd recording, "Clearing" was released in July 1999.
There is a strong family history of music: her father was a professional guitarist, working with big bands and accompanying Judy Garland, and her mother a professional singer.
Ghezzi began performing as a singer in 1997, but has a long history of performing as a dancer. She is a former professional ballerina, choreographer, director & teacher and trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts where she graduated Dean's list, Pennsylvania Ballet and School of American Ballet (NYC), Joffrey Ballet (NYC), among countless others. Since the age of seven, Ghezzi has performed on stages all over the world, winning scholarships & awards from SAB, Harkness, and Joffrey Ballet (NYC), for her electrifying work. At the age of sixteen, she was already an apprentice with The N.C. Dance Theater. She brings her abilities to command and excite audiences to her powerful performances as a vocalist since 1990.
Ghezzi is also a songwriter. She has received a Certificate of Achievement Award from Billboard Magazine for her song Taking No Prisoners, reaching the top 100. The Alliance for Aids Services (Carolina) has awarded Ghezzi and her band for their generous contributions, performing and fundraising since 1998. Ghezzi has had several of her songs forwarded to Millenium Music for film.
Ghezzi lives in Raleigh, NC. She works with producer John Custer and writes and arranges music with guitarist Scott Sawyer.
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Ghezzi: Taking No Prisoners (Doll Records)
Vocalist Ghezzi and guitarist extraordinaire Scott Sawyer pack a solid blues punch on this fine outing. Ghezzi's a powerful, riveting singer who commands attention on uptempo tunes (her original "Limelight") and slower classics like Sippie Wallace's "Women Be Wise." Sawyer delves deep into his blues-soaked Chicago roots, equally at home on rockin' blues or coolly perfect weepers like "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out." This is a great disc, one deeply respectful of the blues tradition while brimming with fresh takes on old classics. Highly recommended. - Gene Hyde (Spectator Magazine, 12/4/97)
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(Chapel Hill News, Wed June 2, 1999)
Ghezzi releases second CD and sparks the interest of a national label
By ALAN R. HALL, Correspondent
CHAPEL HILL -- If you are one of the fortunate few who have the premiere CD by Ghezzi released in April '97, then you have heard the song that earned Ghezzi a Certificate of Achievement Award from Billboard Magazine.
This song is the title track of that first CD, "Take No Prisoners." Ghezzi's second CD, "Clearing," will be released Saturday, and the group is celebrating with a bash at Tobacco Roadhouse in Durham...
Ghezzi is many things. The name refers to the group, the lead singer, and the songwriter. Carolyn Ghezzi has created a way to pursue her dream of being a singer/songwriter after many years performing and teaching ballet. She has done just about everything there is to be done in ballet: perform, teach, choreograph, direct and produce.
Local jazz artist Lois Dawson joins Ghezzi on a classic Mose Allison blues commentary. "Everybody Cryin' Mercy" runs in a deep blues vein, and the duet by these two dynamic vocalists is enough to make you cry. This one takes top honors as "Best of the Best" on this CD.
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"WOWWWWOWOWOW!! The CD (Clearing) is unbelievably great - I was floored when I heard "Pale Blue Eyes"You have a winner on your hands -- Kitty Kinnin (WFXC/WFXK radio personality)
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..."Mighty Tight Woman, get me a strawberry soda and a moon pie, jelly roll killed my daddy drove my mama stone blind. Help me get down and back up again. Ok she eats and breathes the blues back out. This is my favorite tune. She makes you believe it. Smooth as chocolate cream pie on the git fiddle son. Somebody dig up Muddy Waters and let him know. Breakaway, Now this is where she sounds like, Patti Smyth. And God help me who let Carter Minor out of the box yelling and hollering never was so good, between Ghezzi and Carter, Somebody give this one the air play it deserves, this is the single for sure. Son that is very Ry Cooder guitar there just love it... -- Strobe
"Ghezzi's vision is SO in focus...... As a listener you are immediately
transported to where she needs to take you. And if you are among the fortunate to work with her in the studio, it's one serious yet pleasurable trip. Quite the artist, that Ghezzi......." -- Kenny Soule (session/touring drummer: Nantucket, Dag, Mary McBride, Popa Chubby, Walter Trout, Go There, etc.)
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I don't want people who want to dance,
I want people who have to dance.
-- George Balanchine
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"Ghezzi's voice is like a fine Renoir"- Peter Hoyle, Director of Education NJ Opera Theater..
