Sybil Gage
Sultry Voice....
Delicate Arrangements....
Each Song threatening to become a Standard
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A keepsake "unplugged" Sybil Gage interview (with live performances) by legendary FM Odessy host Fred Migliore is availablehere.
NOLA Calling
When I was just slightly sybilized I fell in love with two music lovers and historians that hosted a Radio show on New York's WBAI called The Stormy Monday Show . It was at the time a ratty public radio station in terms of the decor, and home to several cats. This was back in 1982 or so. These two guys, James Browne and David Jackson , besides being highly intelligent and extremely knowledgable about the music they presented , were the funniest people In the world to me. I soon weaseled my way into their lives and became a regular part of the program.
They took me on as a sister ( and a street urchin) and just took me everywhere they went. I soon became an album carrying member, and even went down to New Orleans and interviewed the Bayou Maharaja himself, James Booker, for the show.
Sadly, David passed away a few years back, but James and I just reconnected recently. I want their essence to live on as well as the music. This show is my tribute to them and the music they loved, as I now love it......
Sybil
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Compared to Eartha Kitt, Dinah Washington, and Pearl Bailey, singer, songwriter and musician Sybil Gage grew up in the uptown New Orleans Jazz scene. "My grandparent's property had a bar on the first floor and you could always hear the music upstairs. It was where musicians would hang out and play the Blues."
Watching the scene at Rosy's on Tchopitoulas , Jimmy's on Willow and Tipitina's on Napoleon Ave only endeared her to music that surrounded her each and every day. "New Orleans has a universal love for good music and good food. I was influenced by my neighbors, the Neville Brothers, and kicked up a friendship with the sensational pianist James Booker, while chumming around with Henry Butler. My sister would go with me to Rosy's to see Professor Longhair more often than we went to church, and we came out of that place sanctified."
After beginning stints as a DJ in New Orleans ( WYLD), she headed to Chicago and then to New York where she earned her degree in Fine Arts from NYU. She honed and developed her talents by doing gigs at small clubs like the Village Door in Queens and leaned on actor Gregory Hines for advice and support. "He's the one that kept me focused," she says of him.
Sybil moved to Florida and quickly developed a large and devoted following with her own Blues & Jazz style. Her CD 'Red' took the public by storm and left them clamoring for more. She peppers her repertoire with jazzy blues numbers like "Stormy Weather" , Alberta Hunter's " My Castle's Rockin" and New Orleans favorite " Hip Shakin Mama" as well as original tunes like "Red" which is a nightly request.
Her latest CD NOLA Calling only a few weeks fresh, is already receiving rave reviews.
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[NOLA Calling] made me misty-eyed and longing for New Orleans and I live right here. Beautiful!
-Diane Mack - WWNO Radio
Harmoniously superior sound full of raw emotion and vibrant energy.
-Mike Nunez - Florida Today
LIVE in NYC with theRhythm Club TV Band
"Red" LIVE 2009
"NOLA Calling" at Heidi's Jazz Club
"Sybil sings jazz straight from her heart as she transports her audiences back to a time when jazz ruled America. She is a superstar who lives in our own backyard."
- JOEL GREENBLATT, President, Space Coast Jazz Society
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