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www.myspace.com/odduaI am a Vocalist, Composer, Conductor, Producer, Record Label Owner of Oddua Records, Educator, & Mediator. I am solid, real, chill, a perfectionist, friendly, a nerd, great cook, highly creative, sweet, nice, energetic, patient, competitive, spiritual, grounded, educated, driven, and growing.
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Hypnotic melodies, ancient rhythms, soulful funk, and a voice that will melt you out of your skin, is the music of Allegra Bandy. Allegra Bandy has been writing and performing music that challenges social and societal norms, as well as music that inspires self-expression and self-preservation. Allegra Bandy continues to perform as a vocalist, bandleader, composer, conductor, movie/play score composer, actress, voice over actress and educator and is one of the most exciting voices on the scene!She has performed with some of the best jazz musicians in the Bay Area and New York including Geechi Taylor, Jazz Sawyer, John Handy, Dee Spencer, Wayne Wallace, Marcus Shelby, Riley Bandy III, David Ewell, John Calloway, John Santos, Matt Clark, Daryl Green, Howard Wiley, and Jameo Brown. She has collaborated with the infamous Veronica Combs and Liquid Fire Productions for live performances and vocal coaching. In 2005’s show she was the vocal director and vocal composer for the Liquid Fire Project, “Legacies Untied, Lust Unleashed,†a performing arts piece incorporating music, dance, and spoken word.Home Based in Oakland, CA, as well as a native of San Francisco, CA, Allegra Bandy has been performing mostly jazz, classical, Latin and soul music for the past twelve years in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California Coast, and New York City at various venues such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Yoshi’s (Oakland, CA), Grant and Green (SF) The Black Cat (SF), Jazz at Pearls (SF), Nectar Stage - Pride Celebration 2005 (SF), The Blue Note (New York), Cleopatra’s Needle (NYC), The Up/Over (NYC), Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley, CA), The Starry Plough (Berkeley, CA) and Half Moon Bay Brewing Co. (Half Moon Bay, CA).She started her record label, ODDUA RECORDS, with her business partner, keyboardist Heather Licini, in January, 2006. ODDUA RECORDS is an independent label which supports and produces Bay Area talents of exclusively World, Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop, and Fusion musical genres. She is also the lead vocalist, song writer, and manager of the band, Oddua, which released its first cd, “Sunday Juice,†(World Soul) in April, 2006.Musical Influences: Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Abby Lincoln, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Billy Holiday, James Brown, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sheila Chandra, Ben Harper, Jimmy Hendrix, Cassandra Wilson, Duke Ellington, Claude Debussy, Hildegard Von Bingen, Poncho Sanchez, Nancy Wilson, Louis Armstrong, Julian “Cannonball†Adderly, Frederick Chopin, Giuseppe Verdi, Maria Callas and Jesse Norman, just to name a few.
