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Clare Burnage started singing at very young age. She was a member of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and went on to Study music at the Colchester Institute, majoring in Performance - Classical Voice. It was whilst in Sussex that Clare developed her passion for Jazz and paired up with Pianist Johnathon Vinten (a regular at Ronnie Scotts and member of John Chilton's Footwarmers - of George Melly Fame) Clares main influences are the great songstresses - the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Doris Day and Nina Simone to name but a few.Matt Keane is an accomplished and experienced Pianist, achieving a BA Mus at Chichester and then going on to perform on the local music scene for some years with some great great musicians and bands including the late great Swagger. His main musical passions being Jazz, Funk and Blues.Clare and Matt teamed up in the summer 2006, centering their set around the Great American Song book which features great jazz classics from Gershwin thru to Berlin. Some classic examples being Summertime, Ive got you under my skin, Blue Moon, All the way.......the list is endless and so very timeless. The pair have gone from strength to strengh and perform regularly in Suffolk.