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Véronique Hocq

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About Me


My musical journey began when I was a teenager by teaching myself to play the piano and the synthesizer.
After singing in choirs for about a decade and in various musical genres (from classical to Norvegian music and Gospel), I was first exposed to jazz in the year 2000 at the International Summer Academy at Libramont ("Académie internationale d’été").
This was a real shock... I both discovered this extraordinary music and my voice while singing solo.
I then took lessons with Audrey Englebert during one year, but especially I sang with other musicians in jazz ensembles at various music schools in Brussels: Evere Jazz Academy with Fabien Degryse, "Ecole du mercredi" at the Athanor Studio with Paolo Radoni, Victor da Costa, Alexandre Furnelle and others.
I regularly take part in summer workshops, like the "Académie internationale d’été" at Libramont, "Jazz au Vert" (Lundis d’Hortense) at Wépion and "Crest Jazz Vocal" (France).
I have had the opportunity to take lessons with a.o. Janice Lakers, Barbara Wiernik, Bart Defoort, Fay Claassen, Natascha Roth, Marie-Sophie Talbot, Anca Parghel, Michele Hendricks.
This musical education has been completed by my participation at many "Singers Night" sessions at the Sounds Jazz Club and the Music Village with Sabin Todorov and his trio.
I like simplicity, nice melodies, improvisation... and most of all, Music !.
Concert at Waux Hall :



SOME LINKS I’D LIKE TO SHARE :
- Les Lundis d’Hortense (Jazz in Belgium)
- RTBF Jazz (Philippe Baron)
- Singer’s Night @ Sounds
- Sounds Jazz Club
- The Music Village
- Jazz Station
- Clinics and Workshops
- Académie Internationale d’été at Libramont (Belgium)
- Crest Jazz Vocal (France)
- Paolo Radoni Blog
- Jazzques Blog



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Member Since: 2/27/2007
Band Members:

Duo with Sergio Castellani (guitar).
Duo with Mathieu De Wit (piano).
Acajazz Band (Big band).

Influences: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Annie Ross, Anita O’Day, Etta Jones, Dinah Washington, Chet Baker, Shirley Horn, Fay Claassen, Tierney Sutton, Helen Merrill, Ruth Brown,...

And many instrumental jazz artists, Be-bop, swing, jazz rock ...

And... Lene Lovich, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project, Sting, Genesis, Siouxsie and the Banshees, ...

Record Label: Non signé
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Crest Jazz Vocal 2007

  Crest (Crêt) est une petite ville médiévale traversée par la Drôme et située à 30 km de Valence. Mais c'est aussi une ville qui vit au rythme du jazz durant la première semaine d'aôut, avec ...
Posted by Véronique Hocq on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:48:00 PST

Pour me contacter

  Si vous souhaitez me contacter hors Myspace, c’est ici [email protected] A très bientôt, Véronique    ...
Posted by Véronique Hocq on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:28:00 PST

Paolo Radoni nous a quitté...

  A Paolo Radoni  (sur ce lien, voir sa biographie via "Jazz in Belgium")  (Photo Jacky Lepage)   Très cher Paolo,Je viens d'apprendre ton décès et je n'y crois pas, quelle tr...
Posted by Véronique Hocq on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST

Ma biographie (Français)

  Mon parcours musical commence à l’adolescence par un apprentissage largement autodidacte du piano et du synthétizeur suivi d’un bref passage au clavier dans un groupe de rock progre...
Posted by Véronique Hocq on Mon, 07 May 2007 07:19:00 PST

Nora the Piano-Playing Cat

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Posted by Véronique Hocq on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:22:00 PST