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Infobox musical artist | name = Rachelle Ferrell| image = Rachelle Ferrelle 2011.jpg| caption = Ferrell in a performance on June 6, 2011| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| Born = birth date and age|1961|01|01|df=y Berwyn, Pennsylvania|Berwyn , Pennsylvania United States | death_date =| instrument = Singing|Vocals | genre = Jazz fusion , R& B , pop music|pop , Pop rock , classical music|classical | occupation = Musician ||Natural voice type = Soprano| years_active = 1974 - current| label = Blue Note Records|Blue Note , Capitol Records|Capitol | associated_acts =| website = http://www.rachelleferrell.com Rachelle Ferrell.com| notable_instruments = Rachelle Ferrell (b. January 1, 1961, Berwyn, Pennsylvania|Berwyn , Pennsylvania ) is an United States|American vocalist and musician .cite web|url= http://music.msn.com/music/artist-biography/rachelle-ferrell/|title=Rachelle Ferrell : Biography|last=Skelly|first=Richard|year=2012|publisher=Microsoft|accessdate=4 May 2012 Although she has had some success in the mainstream R& B , pop music|pop , Gospel music|gospel , and european classical music|classical music scene, she is noted for her talents as a contemporary jazz singer.
Biography
Rachelle Ferrell began singing at age six, and developed a six octave range by adulthood.cite web|url= http://music.msn.com/artist/? artist=16077836& |title=Rachelle Ferrell on MSN Music Her range also includes the ability to sing in the whistle register .cite web|author=Himes, Geoffrey|title=Rachelle Ferrell|url= http://www.amazon.com/Rachelle-Ferrell/dp/B000002UW7|publisher=Amazon.com Ferrell describes her highest notes in "It only took a minute" as " Minnie Ripperton -like wailing". She received classical training in violin and the piano at an early age and was performing professionally on both instruments and as a vocalist as a teenager. After enrolling in the Berklee College of Music , and graduating a year later, having learned arrangement and developing her abilities in singing and songwriting , she secured a position teaching music for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts alongside Dizzy Gillespie .
From 1975-90, Ferrell sang backup for Lou Rawls , Patti LaBelle , Vanessa L. Williams|Vanessa Williams , and George Duke . Ferrell's debut, First Instrument , was released in 1990 in Japan, five years prior to its US release. Recorded with bassist Tyrone Brown, pianist Eddie Green and drummer Doug Nally, several famed jazz accompanists also recorded on her album. They include trumpeter Terence Blanchard , pianists Gil Goldstein and Michel Petrucciani , bassists Kenny Davis and Stanley Clarke , tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Pete Levin . Her take on standards like Sam Cooke 's " You Send Me ", Cole Porter 's " What Is This Thing Called Love? ", and Rodgers & Hart 's " My Funny Valentine ", gained her a substantial Japanese jazz audience. http://www.jazzreview.com/preview/concert-3670.html Rachelle Ferrell at Blues Alley Jazz Supper Club
Discography
Year
Title
Genre
Label
2002
Live at Montreux 91-97 Live
Jazz
Blue Note
2000
Individuality (Can I Be Me? )
R& B, Gospel, and Jazz
Capitol
1994
Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This , w/ Will Downing
R& B, Pop
Capitol
1993
Welcome to My Love
R& B, Pop
Capitol
1992
Rachelle Ferrell
Jazz/ Contemporary
Capitol/ EMI
1992
Til You Come Back to Me
Jazz/ Contemporary
Capitol
1990
''Somethin' Else
Jazz/ Contemporary
Blue Note
1990
First Instrument
Jazz/ Contemporary
EMI (Japan) Blue Note (1995)
Footnotes
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External links
http://www.rachelleferrell.com Rachelle Ferrell Official Website
http://www.wlatalent.com/roster/rachelle_ferrell/artistprofile.htm Rachelle Ferrell at http://www.wlatalent.com Wenig-LaMonica Associates
Persondata | NAME =Ferrell, Rachelle | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1961 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Ferrell, Rachelle Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:American female singers Category:American jazz singers Category:African American singers Category:Musicians from Pennsylvania Category:People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:Singers with a four octave vocal range Category:Blue Note Records artists Category:Capitol Records artists Category:Berklee College of Music alumni
