Freddie King

Freddie then became vocalist for top Scottish Reggae Band Skanga and signed to leading Reggae Label CSA Records. Skanga supported Yellowman, Aswad, and Culture, among others.
Since becoming a jazz singer, Freddie has attended Jamey Aebersold’s jazz summer camp where his vocal tutor was jazz singer Louise Gibbs, originally from New Zealand.
Freddie has also attended the Fionna Duncan Vocal Jazz Workshops, and studied under both American jazz singer Madeline Eastman and Scottish diva Fionna Duncan herself.
In addition, he has studied in New York with Mark Soskin (pianist), who has played with Sonny Rollins. When in New York, Freddie met saxophonist Frank Perowsky at a jam session on 8th avenue in NYC. Frank appears on the album "Diggin' Deep": see below.
Freddie has appeared as a jazz singer at most of London’s top jazz clubs e.g. Ronnie Scott’s, Vortex, 606 club.
Freddie was also invited by Paul Flush (Hammond organ/pianist), who is part of the leading Belgian Trio Demagogue Reacts, to appear as a guest vocalist in Brussels and Munich.
He has appeared at Edinburgh, Nairn, Dundee and Brecon Jazz Festivals and has become one of the artists in the forefront of jazz vocals in Scotland with his originality and approach to singing.
Although self-taught, Freddie’s influences range from Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy, and Eddie Jefferson to Johnny Hartman, Joe Williams, and Nat King Cole.
He has toured with Brian Kellock, the world-renowned pianist, who has been BBC Jazz Musician of the Year. Brian asked Freddie to sing in his band “A handful of keys”, playing the music of Fats Waller, and they played sell-out concerts finishing at the Brecon Jazz Festival.
Freddie has become one of Scotland’s premier jazz singers. Although often described as unpredictable, he can sing anything from Bebop and Swing/Latin to beautiful ballads.
After his appearance in Scarborough he headlined in London at the famous Vortex jazz club. He also headlined in 2004 at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival with his band.
2005/6 sees Freddie with his own project and his own new band playing the music of Johnny Hartman and Billy Eckstine, and singing some of the great classic standards and ballads. It shows another side of Freddie’s voice.
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