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Member Since: 4/19/2006
Band Website: phoebelegere.com
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My new ALBUM produced by DAE BENNETT at BENNETT STUDIOS

This is Americana/Roots music played LIVE - one take.

Influences: Influences: Walter Pater, Marcel Proust, Professor Long Hair, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Bill Evens, Teddy Wilson, Sonny Rollins, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, Revival Gospel Music, Country Blues, Jean Redpath, Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Tony Bennett, Dae Bennett, Gil Goldstein, Joakim Lartey, David Dunoway, Howee Gorden, Frank Gravis, everybody at Juilliard, Michael Tilson Thomas
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PHOEBE LEGERE

"They are calling Phoebe Legere "the new Bobby Short" and you can catch her singing at piano at the Kimberly Hotel on Lex. Ave." Liz Smith, New York Post

"Gorgeous, blonde bombshell with a dynamite body, a magnificent voice, a wild sense of humor... (She is) an extremely intelligent Vassar graduate who can play four or five instruments and challenge every premise you might have about her as she zips through her set - her song selections are impeccably chosen. (She has) a dazzling voice - a superb singer miles above most of the rock stars of today...a comic mind...She turns excess and extravagance into an art form and anchors it with stunning simplicity." N.Y. Post

"A brilliant songwriter." Where Magazine

"Fascinating...almost Sandy Dennyish...spellbinding" Steve Morse, Boston Globe

Legere's fine, four octave voice easily goes from horn like contralto to crystal soprano. There's a winsome sweetness...and an aching longing... rare originality and vitality..." Variety

"A charismatic showman who works the audience with the razor edged skill of a veteran comic, poking, teasing, and caressing it with clever turns of phrase both musical and verbal... She plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop, and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four and a half octave range, an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing." Proctor Lippincott, New York Times

"Sitting down at the grand piano Legere launched into a hard driving incredible boogie woogie... Phoebe Legere is a talent to be reckoned with...a sharp wit permeates her lyrics... Vocally Legere possesses a powerful, precise 4 octave voice that is equally at home in the operatic style as it is singing lowdown blues... In two hours Phoebe Legere not only won a raft of new fans in Saratoga, she also demonstrated that talent, intelligence and sex appeal need not be mutually exclusive. Beyond the obvious attributes, it's Legere's warmth and exuberance that will prompt us to watch for her return." Linda Ellingsworth, Saratoga Chronicle

A dynamic performer on piano, accordion and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range and free-for-all approach to mixing jazz, cabaret, and rock, Legere initially earned renown as a songwriter with hundreds of songs in all genres, and was signed to Epic/Sony Records. Demonstrating Legere's mastery of diverse contemporary musical forms, in 1991 she had eight weeks of sold out shows at the The Ballroom in New York, where she performed original songs and blues, French Chansons and Native American chants; and then, opened up for David Bowie on a national tour.

During the past decade, Legere has increasingly focused her energy on music composition. Recently, Legere has been Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA department (2003), and at the University of Victoria Graduate School of Engineering and Music (2004). She presented her Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for music and art improvisation, in a lecture/performance at IRCAM's Resonances Aux Festival in Paris in 2004. Legere is head writer and host for Roulette TV, a NYC show about experimental art and music. She records for Einstein Records, a label known for experimental and adventurous music. Legere has also been a special educator in the New York City public schools for ten years. She is known to thousands of school children as Songbundle, Teacher of Environmental Respect.

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Right now Phoebe also is at The Juilliard School.

Discography http://www.phoebelegere.com/discography.html .. http://www.phoebelegere.com/jazzstandards.html ..

Plays 2001 she received a NYSCA grant to write The Queen of New England, an experimental multimedia opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust. Her musical, Hello Mrs. President, about the first African American woman president of the United States opened in New York.

FilmographyThe Naked Brothers Band (2005) "Sin City Spectacular"--Episode ..1.16 The Bar Channel (1998) Marquis de Slime, Le (1997) Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991) King of New York (1990) The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989) The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989) Mondo New York (1988)


Record Label: Mecury England, Sony, Einstein, Funtone
Type of Label: Major