Miss Henry Wig

I created my layout at KillerKiwi.net ************************************************************ *****************************************************Miss Henry Wig is originally from Des Moines, Iowa with a father from Bolivia, and mother of French, Swedish, German anchestors. ************************************************************ ******* She originally sang in church gospel then later sang as a punker in teens, influenced by Black Flag to Psychic TV and CocteauTwins to Billie Holliday in youth. She moved in her teens to Europe- originally to play with a punk Greek Bassist named Johnny Trobatos in Athens****************************************************** *****************************Later, Miss Henry Wig sang Billie Holliday in the streets of Amsterdam until she met a Blues guitarist Peter Laval and sang the Blues of Big Mama Thorton and Elmore James. She then went to south of France and started focusing on jazz standards with Phil Jones. From Nice, she moved to Switzerland and started singing with Charlie Hunter in a band called the Trout or the Trout Family or various things with the Trout involved. Then back to Amsterdam, where she sang with arrangements by Calder Spanier and Gerco Arts---Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder songs among jazz standards at her gigs as well as house music to country to whatever in Europe for 9 years ...mostly jazz. ************************************************************ ************************ She recorded in the Netherlands with Djs and Producers on a several projects, the most successful one was with FIRST CONTACT- and the song "Into The Light" became a number 3 hit in the Dance Music Charts of Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemberg.) She was featured in Orr Magazing. She performed regularly in Nice, Zurich as well as in London and at Glastonbury.************************************************ ***************************************************** Believing in change with out violence- Miss Henry Wig helped stop a riot between a line between people and lines of riot police in Christiana, Copenhagen, ...by plopping her self inbetween the two groups and singing "Summertime " with a acoustic guitarist until the riot police one by one left the scene. And she sang "Into the Light" for 5,000 people at an Anti Racist March by the Van Gough Museum in Museumplein. ************************************************************ ********************* In Europe, Miss Henry has also performed with Charlie Hunter, Christian McBride, Kenny Drew Sr, Clark Terry, Ed Thigpen, Michael Moore, Sean Bergin, Curtis Clark, and many more jazz greats. ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ******** ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ******** Miss Henry is blessed with playing with many talented Bay Area musicians in her shows- such as Mike Irwin Johnson,Nataliya Zaytseva, Michael Coleman, Graham Connah, Igor Paltsev,Michael Parsons, Adam Gay, Gabe Davis, Chris Bjorkbulm, Lumpy Stapley, and Ric Rivera among others. (On cd is the late great Calder Spanier, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Eric Crystal, Michael Bluestien, and Alex Candelaria, Tom Lyne, Jon Miller, and Leo Boumeester)************************************************* ************************************************************ ******************* Currently Miss Henry Wig helps MAPPS, San Francisco's Mission Artists & Performance Project, Art For Recovery at UCSF Mt. Zion Cancer Center and performs all over the world privately and in public concerts of jazz and various styles of music. And is practicing and instructing Qigong in the Bay Area. (For more info on Qigong classes go to www.qigong.com/instructors) I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)