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Rachelle Ferrell (ra-SHELL fe-RELL) has arrived on the contemporary jazz scene, but her visibility on the pop/urban contemporary scene has boosted her audience's interest in her jazz recordings. She got started singing in the second grade at age six. This no doubt contributed to the eventual development of her startling six-and-change octave range.

Rachelle decided early on, after classical training on violin, that she wanted to try to make her mark musically as an instrumentalist and songwriter. In her mid-teens, her father bought her a piano with the provision that she learn to play to a professional level. Within six months, Rachelle Ferrell had secured her first professional gig as a pianist/singer. Jeron 8650 manual.

She began performing at 13 as a violinist, and in her mid-teens as a pianist and vocalist. At 18, she enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study composition and arranging, where her classmates included Branford Marsalis, Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison and Jeff Watts. She graduated in a year and taught music for awhile with Dizzy Gillespie for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Through the 1980's and into the early '90's, she'd worked with some of the top names in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, George Benson and George Duke.

Rachelle Ferrell performs jazz, jazz vocal, soul music and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, or other music performances. The estimated booking fee range to book Rachelle Ferrell for your event, Please Contact. Rachelle Ferrell has more than 42.2K listeners worldwide and really knows how to entertain your audience. Rachelle Ferrell is the second self-titled studio album by American vocalist Rachelle Ferrell. It was released in 1992 through Capitol Records. Rachelle Ferrell (1961, Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and songwriter. Although initiated and participates in genres such as the Gospel, R&B and Pop, his best known. Rachelle Ferrell was born in Berwyn, Pennsylvania in May 1964. She is best known as a contemporary jazz singer but has also performed pop, gospel, R&B, and classical music. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1992 CD release of Rachelle Ferrell on Discogs.

Ferrell's debut, 'First Instrument,' was released in 1990 in Japan only. Recorded with bassist Tyrone Brown, pianist Eddie Green and drummer Doug Nally, an all-star cast of accompanists also leave their mark on her record. 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 unique take on now-standards like Sam Cooke's 'You Send Me,' Cole Porter's 'What Is This Thing Called Love,' and Rodgers & Hart's 'My Funny Valentine,' captured the hearts and souls of the Japanese jazz-buying public.

In 1995, Blue Note/Capitol released her Japanese debut for U.S. audiences, and the response was similarly positive. Her 1992 self-titled U.S. debut, a more urban pop/contemporary album, was released on Capitol Records.