Member Since: 12/30/2006
Band Website: http://kimsutherland.nl
Band Members: The recordings you hear on this page are with Cees Post piano, Rob Armus saxophone, Harm Wijntjes contrabas and Bart Van Helsdingen drums.My current band is Leo Bouwmeester piano, Sven Schuster contrabas, Daniel Casey drums. We often work with the beloved Wouter Kiers saxophonist.All these foreign names? Well that's because I live in Amsterdam, they have some pretty funny sounding names here......I am an Australian, my name is Kim Sutherland.
Influences: My earliest influences were opera singers, I didn't even know about pop music until I was about nine or ten. My mother was an opera singer and we lived in Milan for three years and heard singers in La Scala. Then we only had three records in the house, one of them was Roberta Flack and the other two were Joan Boaez and Steeley Dan.I listened to a lot of dixieland jazz as a teenager and fell in love with jazz. I am really a dixieland singer at heart.Other singers I am influenced by, Meatloaf, Deborah Harry, Irene Cara, Nancy Wilson, Billy Holiday, Christina Aguilera, Dixie Chicks, Lara Fabian, Whitney Houston, Kate Ceberano, Luther Van Ross, Dinah Washington, Holly Cole, oh so very many.My greatest passion is just voice. I love being a vocal coach and love helping other people sound great. It's an honour to be able to work with other voices and be part of them finding a deeper personal power.
Sounds Like: You get to decide that.
Record Label: pug dog music