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Nina Van Horn

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Her first love was Russian and Classical Dances . After exploring the world of Opera (where she felt a little restricted as a « Soprano Colorature »),she created a Russian Dances & Songs Company of Ballets along with her today..s companion and also performed Russian & Gypsies songs. From all these years of World Tours, she has kept a powerful vocal technique and a great corporal expression on stage.
She settles in the USA and keeps on touring in High schools, Universities, Jails and Veterans Home and finally chooses Texas. Nina goes on tour across the USA where she became one with the landscapes and people she met. She appears in some Charity Concerts for the FARM AID, already concerned by Globalisation...
The Tour brings her to New Orleans where she finds a new passion : BLUES..
Finally not so far from the Gypsy songs where you can also express pain, love and joy..Nina understands that very quickly.. she dives into her memory and gets loose with her voice like a Janis Joplin to whom she is often compared...
She meets DAN AKROYD, also great Blues lover, who push her to go further on into that music of Soul and Heart.
NINA sings more and more, BETTE MIDLER, CHUCK BERRY or ERIC BURDON among others ask her to play as a supporting act as they appreciate the true « Rock Energy » and her feeling on stage.
NINA learns a lot with those monsters, and feeling ready, she goes back to France to create her own Band.
The MIDNIGHT WOLF BAND was born and composed of musicians corresponding to her : generous, spontaneous and truthful.. her wolves ! ! Like the Silver Bullet Band of Bob Seger, NINA shares and communicates her energy and her last CD « NINA LIVE .. and ALIVE IN PARIS » is the living proof. (distribution by CRISTAL RECORDS & XIII bis)
Her new collaboration with Neal Black and Lucky Peterson in her new album « From Huntsville to Jordan » prove that Nina is not tired to travel in the World of Blues and Texas Rock.
In this more mature CD Nina express herself on subject such as Executions in Huntsville, mistreatment of our planet or wars......
NINA VAN HORN is a singer definitely watching the world she lives in, she likes also to compose her songs et to tell us stories of simple people met one day in Louisiana or somewhere else...
She likes her Blues with moments more Jazz or Rock but always with the same joy to share it with her « wolves » and the public in a very communicative way !
Her voice reminds Janis Joplin or Bette Middler, her energy on stage a little of Tina Turner but her sincerity and enthusiasm wherever she goes are obvious :
To share her pleasure with her public !
Great pictures from BLUESPIXEL in Verviers at the SPIRIT OF 66 - March 2008 and Bierbeek Blues Festival Belgium - april 2008
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NINA ALSO RUN HER OWN RADIO SHOW NAMED /
LISTEN ON W3BLUESRADIO.FR
Wednesday/mercredi : 9.00pm/21h French Time
Thursday/jeudi : 3.00am & 11.00am
Friday/vendredi : 3.00pm/15h
Sunday/dimanche : 3.00 pm/15h
Her radio show every 15 days on the net is about the FEMALE BLUES SINGERS. Nina tells their amazing stories during one hour show. "I really discover those first female blues singers : their were talking about diseases, alcoholism , lesbianism or making fun of themself and watching the hard world in which they were born". Nina is preparing a cd on those women like, Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie, Alberta Hunter.... and chose to do some acoustics versions of their more significative songs and to pay them the great tribute they diserve.
She is also writing a book on their incredeible life and stuggle ! .
1st Anniversary of W3Bluesradio at One Way
Pictures from Alain Chassaing
DISCOGRAPHY /
NEW CD/DVD "From Huntsville to Jordan" 2006
Cristal Records/Harmonia Mundi
CD "Live at Chesterfield Cafe Paris" 2004
Cristal Records/XIIIbis
DVD "Live at the House of Live" Paris, 2004
Cristal Records/XIIIbis
CD "The Planet" 1998,
Papa Music, Spain
CD "The Planet" 1998,
Wolf Productions France

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Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Website: www.ninavanhorn.com"

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Nina has been Invited to the Festiblues in CANADA to represent the French Blues together with Patrick Verbeke. They both were invited to perform on the main stage and France was honored through them on Canadian TV



Video at the Festiblues Montreal "Bayou Love Child"

Good Bye New Orleans (song on Katrina) performed at Festiblues Montreal

The band generally playing with me is composed of :
Mar Todani (best blues guitar player from Japan, toured with Big Joe Turner)
- Pili Tempo is on bass (he played for Tony Coleman)
- Damien Cornelis (FR) ..boards or Fabien Saussaye (played with Tony Coleman)
- Larry Crockett (USA) on drums ( played for Liz Mc Comb, Elton John and many others)
or Pat Machenaud (FR) (played with Gery Joe Weise)or Denis Palatin

Nina Van Horn live at the Jazz Festival in Corbeil France with special guests : Phil Bonin on guitar and Jean Jacques Milteau on harp
Dirty TB Blues and CC Rider

Nina with Mar Todani on guitar at Utopia Club in Paris - Muddy Waters Blues
NINA Van Horn chante le blues
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Influences: I am basically a Rock singer bringing my rock attitude in the field of Blues...Although many people compare my voice to Janis Joplin, I have been influenced more by people like Bette Middler (cause she's a dancer, actor on stage), Etta James, Koko Taylor....for their attitude and to Joan Baez or Dylan for the lyrics (they are very important to me wether it is a cover or my own songs to perform)

Sounds Like: Hope it sounds like me !!! But people often says my band has the energy of the Silver Bullet Band and call me "the french Bob Seger" ! My show goes from sweetness of acoustics to the strengh of electric guitars, mixing songs more political with hope for humanity !

DONT MIIS THE OCCASION TO SHOW HER YOUR LOVE !

NINA VAN HORN, "les couleurs du jazz"
Record Label: Cristal Records
Type of Label: Indie

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NINA AND HER NEW CD IN PREPARATION ...

I am running a radio show on the net called "Nina On The Rocks" every 15 days on W3bluesradio.fr and I tell the story of the first Female Blues singers of the 20/30/40's... It gave me the idea to...
Posted by Nina Van Horn on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:57:00 PST