JOY

Soprano, Joy Kabanuck, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she first began singing at age four. At twelve, she began to study voice and piano, as well as perform in musical theater productions throughout her community. While still in high school, Joy recorded an album and was a featured soloist as a member of the group “Reflexions”.After graduating high school, Joy spent a year studying musical theater and dance as part of the Citrus College “Citrus Singers”, singing in numerous concerts and shows including Roger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella as the Fairy Godmother. Joy then began to focus her attention, as a vocal performance major at California State University, Northridge, on opera.While at CSUN, she was a Los Angeles district finalist in the New York Metropolitan Opera Council auditions and a finalist in the Los Angeles Artist of the Future competition. In her last semester of college, Joy was cast as Mimi in the Baz Luhrmann directed La Boheme on Broadway. She later went on to reprise the role of Mimi at The Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, where she performed opposite Il Divo’s David Miller.Joy has performed other operatic roles including Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, the title role in Donizetti’s Betly and The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute, and has also performed Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, and Carmina Burana under the baton of Maestro Jorge Mester as a soprano soloist. Currently, Joy is signed to Decca Records as a member of the group, Three Graces. Joining forces with some of the world’s top music producers and songwriters, Joy had the pleasure of working with Walter Afanasieff, Desmond Child, Guy Roche, and Mark Portman. Their debut album, to be released March 2008, includes songs in four languages in a mix of pop, operatic and musical theater style singing.