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About Sheila .....
Jazz/Swing Duo, Trio, Quartet or Quintet for your UK Event.
Sheila Daniels had a background where music was foremost.
She loved singing as a child , inspired from an early age by the Hollywood
Musicals of the 40’s & 50’s. She now travels throughout the UK delivering
some of the greatest jazz and swing standards from Hoagy Carmichael,
George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Rodgers and Hart and many other
major songwriters of the Great American Songbook. Sheila has also been
influenced by many great female performers such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella
Fitzgerald and Judy Garland and more recently Anita Wardell, and Nina
Ferro.
Sheila grew up in Hampshire and moved to London when she was 19 in order
to attend drama school at Drama Studio London in Ealing, where her passion
for singing and performing grew. She later formed a band and performed
regular jazz nights in the West London area and was regularly booked
for weddings, corporate events and private parties. Sheila then teamed
up with a pianist and performed smooth dinner jazz in venues such as
The Dome Brasserie in Kew, Sidolis Wine Bar in Mayfair and the Athenaeum
Hotel on Piccadilly. She also sang in a musical tribute to George Gershwin
at the the Fortune Theatre, Covent Garden, London and performed in the
musical ‘Nine' at the the Royal Festival Hall, London.
She is now performing regularly with jazz pianist Eugene
Portman as a Duo and with Mike Porter-Ward (Bass) -
Trio, David Trigwell (Drums) - Quartet
and Carlos Lopez-Real (Saxophone) - Quintet, at special
events all over the UK.
Sheila is available as a Jazz & Swing singer for Christmas parties,
Weddings, Civil ceremonies, private parties, fashion shows, trade shows,
Corporate events or any other special occasion. Her work takes her regularly
around Surrey, London, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Berkshire and across South
& South East and throughout the United Kingdom. She is based close
to the M25 so access to anywhere in the UK is easy, many recent bookings
have come from the Midlands and Yorkshire. She can provide anything
from a solo (with backing tracks) or jazz duo (piano and vocals) to
a quintet. The outfit is led by Sheila and in it's duo format, features
Eugene Portman (jazz pianist). The duo line up can be augmented to include
bass (Mike Porter-Ward), Sax (Carlos Lopez-Real) and drums (David Trigwell).
You choose the line up:
Solo - vocals and backing tracks.
Duo - piano and vocals.
Trio - piano, drums and vocals, or piano, bass and vocals.
Quartet - piano, bass, drums and vocals.
Quintet - piano, bass, drums, vocals and saxophone.
Please click here for a quote
for any of the above line ups
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