Michelle Willis - by Bricks and Sounds

Türöffnung & Barbetrieb durchgehend
Konzert: 20.00 Uhr (Support), 21.00 Uhr (Michelle Willis)
Location: Byro Aarau (freie Platzwahl)

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Michelle Willis is a Canadian singer, songwriter and keyboard player based in New York City. As a kid growing up, singing and playing was a pathway to self expression. "In the 90s, the hits on the radio were largely by women like Shawn Colvin, Lauryn Hill, Amanda Marshall, Jann Arden, Whitney Houston, Alanis Morissette, Janet Jackson and Sarah McLachlan. They said how they felt, and to me their songs felt deep, clever, honest. It was a sound where all my teenage emotion could live and be perfectly expressed. Around the same time, I was singing Brahms, Bach and the blue hymnbook in a choir - all that melodramatic music was circling around." She later grew to learn the vocabulary of the 60s and 70s singer-songwriter era, a sound she has grown quite close to given her fixed position in two bands led by rock and roll hall of famer David Crosby. After studying jazz piano at Toronto's Humber College, she set sights on folk and pop songwriting, taking inspiration from heavyweights as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. Since moving to New York, Willis has cemented her place as an in-demand keyboard player and singer, touring and recording with a diverse array of artists such as David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Zac Brown Band, Iggy Pop, Laura Mvula and Michael McDonald. She is also an artist on GroundUP Music, a record label started by Snarky Puppy leader and founder Michael League, with whom she has regularly collaborated and toured with for over a decade.

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