Ida McBeth

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AUDIO INTERVIEW: Versatile singer Ida McBeth has been serving up jazz, blues, soul and funk to Kansas City audiences for 30 years.
There’s a quiet storm in Kansas City. And it swirls around the captivating, elegant, mystifying and delightful music of singer Ida McBeth.
Ida’s musical style is so unique that it is hard to classify. Over the years, her repertoire has included pop-style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes, funk, R&B, gospel and well known standards.
Critics have described her as “a jazz singer,” “a blues singer,” “a pop singer” and “a cabaret singer.” Still others have referred to her as “a story teller,” “a professor emeritus of body language,” “a consummate actress” and “the complete entertainer.” A song stylist is the title Ida prefers.

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“McBeth can rear back and howl with the best of them, but she comes through most profoundly on her quieter ballads, where you can hear every ripple, catch and inflection in her voice.”
–The Kansas City Star
“Three words: Fab u lous.”
–KC Pitch
“First there's the voice. No escaping this one. A soul-powered cruise missile aimed straight for the heart...”
–The Kansas City Star
“McBeth is a singer who needs a room full of ears. And eyes. With plenty of heart and soul.”
–Rocky Mountain News
“Dignity, talent and finesse: Ida McBeth classes up the whole scene...”
–KC Pitch
“...an electrifying blues and jazz singer... Ida McBeth knows how to move an audience, driving it to stomp and dance with a saucy rhythm and blues number, or quieting everyone down with a soft jazz ballad. Her sound is both gutsy and modern...”
–The New York Times
“Make a pilgrimage to see this woman before those wiser than us on the coasts lure her away.”
–KC Pitch

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