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Sandra Booker Biography
Sandra Booker is regarded as one of the new masters in the jazz genre. Highly respected for her virtuosic scat ability, impeccable timing, crystalline tone, and bold musical individuality, Booker has created a world that is all her own. Sandra has enjoyed collaborations and performances with many veterans and newcomers from Lalo Schifrin, Billy Higgins, Kenny Burrell, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, to Barbara Morrison, Harry Connick, Jr., Patrice Rushen.
A native of the great jazz city New Orleans, Sandra Booker sings in a style reminiscent of one speaking in his or her native tongue revealing her deep southern and Creole roots in jazz, gospel Negro spirituals, rhythm and blues and tropical music of the Caribbean, specifically the rhythms of Haiti, Cuba and Brazil.
In 2005, as a member of Team Vico, a non-profit organization that produces musical recordings for children with autism, Sandra received a Los Angeles Music Award for Best Children's CD. Her voice has been featured in radio and television for commercials ranging from Coca Cola to Ralph Lauren's current men's fragrance campaign, Polo Black. Perhaps the words of legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell sums her up best when he says, "...some people got it and some people don't and Sandra Booker's got it all!"