Afro-American jazz vocalist Sharón Clark and Scandinavian pianist Mattias Nilsson have been breaking down racial barriers by touring together, ever since they met at a jam session in New York, 2012. This includes concerts in Europe, Africa and Asia; performing a long list of renowned festivals and clubs in Sweden (Ystad Sweden Jazz, Trollhättans Jazz & Bluesfestival, Huddinge Jazz & Blues), Denmark (Copenhagen Jazz Festival), Estonia, Latvia (Saulkrasti Jazz Festival), Croatia (Fest Jazza Koprivnica), Belgium (Gouvy Jazz & Blues Festival), Taiwan (Taichung Jazz Festival), France and South Africa.
SHARÓN CLARK
“This girl can really sing” (Tommy Flanagan about Sharón Clark)
SHARÓN CLARK (b. 1961), sultry chanteuse world-renowned for her vibrato and incomparable tonality, has been acclaimed by every major newspaper including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Few singers are compared to the great ones but Ms. Clark embodies the blessed ones who had the voices heard once in a lifetime. Hearing her live makes the listener feel the bliss of perfection. Her recent performances includes sold out shows at Dizzy's Club - Jazz at Lincoln, Birdland, a standing ovation at a sold out concert at the Kennedy Center, closing the DC Jazz Festival plus an outdoor festival in Taiwan in front of 50,000 people.
Washington D.C. standout Sharón Clark has brought festival and concert audiences to their feet across the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia. Her standing-room-only performance at the “Cape May Jazz Festival” drew raves from JazzTimes: "Clark not only conjures up memories of the divine Sarah [Vaughan]; she does them justice. I never thought I'd hear a singer with the range, musicality and command of tone and timbre that was Sarah at her best, but now I have." Wall Street Journal calls Clark "a revelation". The Washington Post calls her "powerful yet supple…soulful, swinging …wonderfully nimble…dreamy," and the Washingtonian Magazine has labeled her a "Jazz Master."
Clark has performed as a featured soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony, and she won first place in the Billie Holiday Vocal Competition and the Savannah Music Festival’s American Traditions Competition. Her recent performances includes sold out shows at Dizzy's Club - Jazz at Lincoln, Birdland, a standing ovation at a sold out concert at the Kennedy Center, closing the DC Jazz Festival plus an outdoor festival in Taiwan in front of 50,000 people.
"Sharón Clark belongs on the playlist of anyone who listens to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughan, she is that good!" ALL ABOUT JAZZ (US)
