Sharon May Linn

It may seem she’s been seeking for success in the music business, but as a matter of fact her biggest input has always been passion: big passion for music(all kind of!!!). Sharon’s personal motto is “Music is passion – Passion is music”.
She starts singing professionally at the age of 17 as backing vocals but soon turns to the frontlines and begins her solo carrier in several bands.
From reggae to rock to 70s-80s cover bands and acid jazz groups, she becomes a great interpreter of big soul names like A.Franklin, T.Turner and many others.
In the meantime she starts recording loads of tracks in the upcoming house genre and develops creativity by writing lyrics, including, from that time on, the producing aspect of music.
Her first approach to music was thanks to her parents: father Alberto was playing rock records all the time (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Beatles, C,S,N&Y, Eagles and many more), but also a lot of classical music (Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovski, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, Sibelius and many more). Mother Maureen was playing a lot of music as well!!! (Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Earth,Wind & Fire and many more).
On high school Sharon joined a new wave band called Half Moon and this would sign her entry to the wonderful world of music.
After 2 years she became part of most famous italian reggae band Africa Unite, with whom she performed as backing vocals for about two and a half years, participating to their 2nd and 3rd album 'Llaka' and 'People pie'.
In 1991 Sharon sang as backing vocals for 2 tracks on Paolo Conte's album 'Parole d'amore scritte a macchina'.
In the meantime she started her 6-year experience as backing vocals AND solo in the 70-80-90 cover band APPALOOSA GROUP, reaching a huge number of live performances, over a 400!!!
She's been singing in a few hard-rock bands being the opening band of Manowar concert in Turin in 1991.
With her powerful black voice and her very charismatic performances, she also became most wanted free-style vocalist since a decennia and she has been working with a huge number of world known house djs, throughout the best clubs, first in Italy and then also Spain (Ibiza), Mexico, England, Poland, Russia, The Netherlands, Rumenia, Swiss and Germany...Soon coming up performances in China, the States and other European countries too.
Not satisfied with this all, Sharon continued her seeking in music forming several bands of different styles: the "Sharon May Linn band" was a soul-blues-rock, "Sharon and friends" was an acid jazz, "ZZ pop" was an all around cover band.
Sharon's passion for west-coast, classic rock and soft-soul brought her to create an acoustic trio (2 guitars- one 12 strings- and 3 voices....what a wonderful atmosphere!!!) with her friends Claudio "Claude" Bonetto and Enrico "Napo" Musso, being together CSN.....
They wrote some folk tunes (you can hear some in the first player)
Nowadays Sharon moved temporary from Italy to Holland to reach her family for a while....she's still busy with her house music productions carrier (see: www.myspace.com/sharonmaylinn ), but has also the time to go on with live projects such as the brand new acoustic duo Sharon & Johan (with guitar player Johan Stolk) and a big cover band, Liquid Grooves, performing all over the Netherlands.
Another new musical project is a lounge-groovy stylish band Astrophonic with key's player Martin Denev, guitarist Tzvetin Todorov and percussionist Juri Keufner. The Astrophonic will be performing in Beijing somewhere in 2008.
Hear some takes in the player!
But the very news is a coming back of Sharon's first musical love: ROCK.ROCK.ROCK !!!
Starting an album project with The Spins ( www.myspace.com/therealspins ), with a following tour through rock paradise the USA.
More news will be coming up soon, so don't forget to come back once in a while to be kept posted!!!
For detailed information and/or bookings:
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ITALIANO:
Può sembrare che Sharon sia stata in cerca di fortuna nel mondo dello show-biz, in realtà il suo soffio vitale è la passione: grande passione per la musica-Tutta!!! Il motto suo personale è “la musica è passione-la passione è musica”.
Gia’ dal secondo anno di liceo comincia ad esibirsi come corista di un gruppo locale new wave chiamato Half Moon e con cui fa le prime esperienze di live a livello locale. Dal 1987 entra a far parte degli Africa Unite (allora Africa United) band reggae numero uno in Italia, come corista arrivando a ca 60 concerti l’anno in tutto lo stivale. Collabora, sempre come corista, a due dei loro album “Llaka” e “People pie”.Nel 1990 lavora come corista all’album “Parole d’Amore Scritte a Macchina” di Paolo Conte cantando nei brani -Il Maestro-, -Happy Feet- e -Mr Jive.Nel 1991 lascia gli Africa United; ha qualche esperienza in gruppi rock come gli Electradrive con cui apre il concerto di quell'anno della rockband Manowar al palazzetto dello sport di Torino; e con i Fil di Ferro sia come corista che come cantante solista.Nel frattempo partecipa come corista e cantante solista ad un concerto jam-session di Billy Cobham al Big Club di Torino. Nel 1992 entra a far parte sempre come corista de “The Appaloosa Group”, una cover band di musica pop-rock-soul-disco ’70-’80-’90. Questa collaborazione la portera’ ad avere un ruolo sempre più come interprete solista che come corista. “The Appaloosa Group” si esibisce attivamente per ca 6 anni in tutta Italia, sia nelle discoteche che nelle feste di piazza.Dal 1994 comincia a lavorare come cantante di piano bar e sulla scia dei lavori di discografia fatta negli anni precedenti, come turnista in vari studi di registrazione raggiungendo una folta discografia!Accanto a ciò la sua passione per la musica con i suoi svariati generi, fonda diverse formazioni (cover band-genere pop,rock e acid jazz) esibendosi nei principali locali del nord Italia.Con gli amici chitarristi/cantanti Fabrizio Cucco e Angelo Zoggia crea un trio acustico e per ca 4 anni si esibisce in concerti per l'appunto acustici, interpretando in tale chiave una molteplicità di brani di ogni genere!Nel 2000 lavora per un mese presso il Bravo Mandarin Club a Playa del Carmen (Messico) e da lì inizia a fare esperienza sempre più sovente all'estero.Nel 2007 Sharon incontra due musicisti bulgari di estrema bravura: il tastierista Martin Denev (dal gruppo Praful) e il chitarrista Tzvetin Todorov (Café del Mar) e insieme ad un percussionista fondano gli “Astrophonic”, portando una nuova esperienza per lei con un genere semi-acustico che spazia dal sound jazzy al acid, al funky...un po' alla Saint Germain.Attualmente Sharon May Linn è concentrata sulla sua carriera di cantante solista house sulla scia del successo mondiale di “Destination Calabria” (di cui è l'autrice ma che ha incluso nel suo repertorio di interpretazioni), ma occasionalmente quando ne ha la possibilità continua a esibirsi con varie formazioni live perché come Sharon spesso ribadisce:_l'energia che si sprigiona su un palco insieme ai musicisti non ha paragoni!_
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