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Cheryl Allison

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Cheryl Allison has been singing and composing music for as long as she remembers. Having sung her first solo in church at the age of 5, she knew music gave her life meaning. She began playing piano at 5 years old, cello at 9 and voice lessons at 12. During college, she gained professional experience by performing in the local musical theatre productions in Dallas, Tx. and singing with the FORT WORTH OPERA.
Upon graduating with her Bachelors and Masters in Vocal Performance, she moved to NYC where she had the privilege of performing in BROADWAY and REGIONAL THEATRES PRODUCTIONS for over 10 years. Cheryl can be heard as a soloist on the RCA/VICTOR Original Cast Recording of "CHILDREN OF EDEN" written by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ and starring STEPHANIE MILLS.
She started a band during this time and performed in NYC at such notable clubs including The Bitter End, Mercury Lounge, The Bottom Line, Kenny's Castaways, Rock Ridge and La Bar Bat. She had the privilege of opening for the band Betty in NYC. She came in 2nd out of 500 bands in the WDRE-92.7 Rock to the Top Contest.
After relocating to Los Angeles, she sang as a session singer for numerous media companies including DISNEY CHANNEL, BET (BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION), TLC (THE LEARNING CHANNEL), COLUMBIA PICTURES HOME VIDEO, AUTONOMY POST PRODUCTION and FIRSTCOM MUSIC, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP. Most recently she has recorded and performed with world renowned violinist and Hollywood Bowl Concertmaster, Robin Olson.
Her original wedding song called "LOVE DIVINE" has been licensed for the WNBC show called "I Do".
Cheryl recently signed a licensing agreement with 1000TRACKS.COM, a divison of e5 Music.
Cheryl has one 12 awards so far on Garageband.com including 3 Best Female Vocals and 3 Track of Days and most recently Track of the Week. She just released her new EP "YEARS LATER" which was co-produced by Robin Olson and Craig Lyons and recorded at Studio Q in West Hollywood, CA.
SNAPSHOTS FROM MY CAREER IN THEATRE



SNAPSHOTS FROM MY CAREER IN MUSIC


CHERYL'S VOCALS ON OPENING FOR "CITA'S WORLD".
SHOW AIRED ON BET

CHERYL'S VOCALS ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROMO AIRING ON DISNEY CHANNEL
Soloist on the RCA/VICTOR Orginal Cast Recording
of "CHILDREN OF EDEN" starring STEPHANIE MILLS.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS gets TRACK OF THE DAY
and BEST FEMALE VOCALS on GARAGEBAND.COM

COVER ME gets TRACK OF THE WEEK and 2 BEST FEMALE VOCALS on GARAGEBAND.com
in the Groove Rock category!

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Music composed by the amazing Robin Olson.

I had the privilege of recording all the background choir vocals for the piece.
A PAINTING BY MY TALENTED & DEAR FRIEND JOHN COURTER

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/05/2008
Band Members: Cheryl Allison

Thanks to Robin Olson (violins & violas) and Craig Lyons (guitars, electric bass, drums) for producing, arranging, engineering and playing on YEARS LATER, FIRST OF NOVEMBER, 3AM, NEW YEARS EVE and LOVE DIVINE. You are the best music team! Studio Q rocks!

Thanks to Kevin Kuhn for his amazing arrangement of COVER ME & SLEEPLESS NIGHTS formerly known as BOBBY GOES and thanks to Jonathon Sanborn (bass), Howie Joines(drums), Kevin Kuhn (guitars and mandolin) and Martha B. Colby (cello) for lending their talents on the song.

Influences: Musically: Joan Wall, Kiri Te Kanawa, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Brandi Carlile, Dixie Chicks, Annie Lennox, Etta James & Melody Gardot

Personally: God, Natalie, Mema, Nana, my parents, Wendy Watts, ASPCA, and anyone who pays it forward....

THE AMAZING MICKEY

“THE GREATNESS OF A NATION AND IT'S MORAL PROGRESS CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED” - GANDHI


Sounds Like: A musical theatre, rocker, opera chick. :)
Record Label: Don't want one. Just want to keep singing.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

"Cover Me" gets TRACK OF THE WEEK in the Groove Rock Category

Starting the week right - My song Cover Me is featured as TRACK OF THE WEEK in the Groove Rock category on Garageband.com! Does this mean I'm a groovy gal? Actually it's Jonathan Sanborn on bass and K...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:29:00 GMT

AWARD - Best Female Vocals in Alternative Pop

I entered my song Sleepless Nights in a contest on garageband.com 2 weeks ago and received an award for Best Female Vocals in Alternative Pop.   GarageBand.com is a new type of music company that...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:40:00 GMT

ADDICTION

Addiction can encompass a variety of things. The two that usually come to mind are booze and drugs.  But society and reality tv have shown us, addiction ca...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:39:00 GMT

NEW SONG - "NEW YEARS EVE"

I am excited about posting a new song. It's called "New Years Eve".  I wanted an intimate feel with the song so we decided to arrange it with just piano, violas and of course vocals.  For th...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT

NEW SONG - "FIRST OF NOVEMBER"

In November 1996, I went through the darkest and hardest month of my life.  On December 2nd, 1996, I wrote First of November.  The song seemed to flow out of me and I believe was my way of d...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:05:00 GMT

NEW SONG - "3am"

Hi everyone! Hope you like my new song "3am".  I just finished production on it last week.  It was recorded at Studio Q with the amazing team of Robin Olson and Craig Lyons.  They blew ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:04:00 GMT

"Love Divine" on TV show in NYC.

Exciting news!  My original wedding song called "Love Divine" will be used on a local WNBC show in NYC called "I Do".  The show begins airing on June 7th for 10 weeks.  The show will al...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 15:13:00 GMT