cheryl d barnes

Layout by CoolChaser Background from flickr userBiography - ReviewsIf you’ve heard Cheryl Dyrithe Barnes perform, you already know she’s an unmistakably individual singer with extraordinary range, technique and taste. If you’ve yet to hear her, you are in for a moving experience.Ms. Barnes' U.S. tours have paired her with the likes of the great Wynton Marsalis, J. J. Johnson and Quincy Jones. She is quite often heard in and around Los Angeles at the prestigious Los Angeles County Museum of Art Jazz Concert Series, at the world-renowned jazz club, The Baked Potato, and as guest artist / clinician at schools and universities throughout Southern California. She tours the world over from Amsterdam to the Antilles, and from Sao Paulo to Singapore.Cheryl Dyrithe Barnes can’t remember when her Cleveland home didn’t resonate with the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Nat King Cole, among other jazz legends.No stranger to classical music, Cheryl began her voice studies at age nine. She attended the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music where she performed the role of Dido in the opera “Dido and Aeneas”, concurrently serving as the featured vocalist in the award winning University of Denver Jazz Band. Continuing classical training has reinforced her enormous natural vocal range and laid a solid foundation for her estimable vocal abilities, ranging from Pop to Latin to Classical to Jazz.Ms. Barnes has appeared with the Florida Orchestra, the Denver Symphony Orchestra and was co-host of Denver’s popular TV magazine show, ‘The Other Side”.Cheryl Dyrithe Barnes’ exquisite taste, technique and audience rapport should not be missed.