Heaven Davis

Heaven Davis loves to sing! She doesn’t distinguish between styles, be it Jazz, Blues, Country, Soul or Rock. “There are only two types of music” she says. “Yours and mine!”In 2006 she released ‘Steamy’, a CD of Blues and Soul. ‘Steamy’ received critical acclaim from across the globe. She was credited by Blues Review with the claim that “An Atlanta singer updates R&B for a new millennium”. A single ‘Regrets’ debuted on Billboards ‘Hot R&B/Hip Hop Sales Chart at 4. ‘Destined to be a star’ one critic said. That same year the CD made the final four of the Blues Foundations’ “Best Self Produced CD”.Through her early years Heaven performed in a number of Funk, R&B and Pop bands discovering she loved all types of music. It wasn’t until 1993 when she took on a dare from a friend and answered an ad in a local rag for a blues vocalist. That led to Heaven fronting Atlanta Blues Band ‘Blue Heaven’. Not having a lot of knowledge about the music, she soaked up all she could find about the music. “I didn’t know a lot about the genre but I knew I loved the way it made me feel”, says Heaven. It showed in her performance. Very soon Blue Heaven was covering the local clubs and people were listening, really listening. Offers started to come in to perform outside of Atlanta and the band started touring in the surrounding states.Heaven was then invited to cut a remake of ‘You Are My Sunshine” on a compilation CD for the Shag Dance scene. The cut shot to the top of the Shag charts and remained there for over 15 months. Shortly afterwards, Blue Heaven became Heaven Davis and The Aggravatin’ Papa’s. Then came “Heaven Davis Live”, a CD of covers used to promote Heaven’s talent.With album sales in the US, Europe and Japan, Heaven is now known on an international level. Everyone keeps asking the same question. “When’s the next CD coming out?’ Although Heaven stays busy performing with her band that's now The Heaven Davis band, she’s working on the new CD. ‘I still have a peach pie or two in the oven’, says Davis. It’ll be out there for your eating pleasure soon”.Some say that she will be the blues voice of the future. Her voice and style has been compared to many from Betty Wright to Gladys Knight. Then they see that rockier side come out while she’s doing a Rolling Stones cover, or the jazzier side when she's doing some Dinah Washington. There’s a lot pinned up in that 5’3’ frame. She’ll always surprise you with the unexpected. A Heaven Davis performance live or on CD was best summed up by a critic who said; ”If she [Davis}] gigs near you anytime soon then steal, rob, lie & do whatever it takes in order to be there”.