Artist ID: 773
Spicy and Spontaneous
Jane L Powell began her singing career in Roanoke, Virginia, and has since demonstrated her soulful style and Five-Octave plus vocal range to audiences throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Jane quickly captivates any audience with her musical flexibility, open and playful personality and often spicy and spontaneous sense of humor. If you were so unlucky as to have missed one of her live shows, you still may have heard Jane singing in a national McDonald's commercial or you may have seen and heard her performance in the Dino DeLaurentiis film "Marie" or in the 1999 new Line Cinema comedy, "The Bachelor."
Ms. Powell brings her own style to a song...be it an original composition, a classic R&B or blues tune, a Jazz standard, a contemporary dance number, a raw Reggae groove, or a Gospel anthem...with a whole lotta soul and sizzling crowd rapport. She has performed for demographically diverse audiences at college campuses, on Norwegian Cruise Line ships, at corporate functions, nightclubs, resort hotels and large outdoor festivals and fairs.
Jane has also opened for and worked with such acts as Lou Rawls, The Crusaders, Joan Jett, Freddie Jackson, Melba Moore, BJ Thomas, Koko Taylor, Ernie Watts, Wayne Henderson, Paula Poundstone and Ray Charles. In reference to her opening for Ray Charles, The Washington Post said, "She stole the night from a legend."
Jane L. Powell is a natural artist to span the Millennium. She possesses the depth of experience to draw upon the rich traditions of popular music, blend them with her unique vocal abilities and vibrant personality and create music to uplift any audience. Singing from the heart and little wit never goes out of style!
A few years ago I became chair of the Performing Arts for the Virginia Highlands Festival and I am constantly looking for the best acts for our events within our moderate budget. The kick off event is the Patrons event and it has to be good, real good or I will hear about it and we will not have a great start of events. This year I remembered a group that I presented a number of years ago and I felt they would be perfect, I then called you, Kris, to ask if you could find Jane Powell. I found out that you work with her and was pleased because I knew that this would now be easy to arrange. Jane and her trio played here last night and were a great success! Not only did they do a great performance, they were so easy to work with, it was the kind of job I like: enjoyable from both the presenter's side and the audience side.
Thanks for making this perfect event happen! Jane Powell was great!
B Dent
Performing Arts Chairman, Virginia Highlands Festival
"She stole the night from a legend."
The Washington Post
"...my sincerest thanks to you for your musical contribution to the historic visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the Capitol on May 3, 2007. Your performance was a key part to the success of the day...The enthusiasm you demonstrated on stage helped to make Virginia's Royal Welcome a truly special day for everyone in attendance."
Governor Timothy M. Kaine
"The place was crackling with energy....She took songs where they had never been before..."
Page Gifford, Fluvanna Review Online
"A certain talent comes along every 20 years or so - and you're it!"
Tony Bennett
"Sassy like Pearl Bailey, sings like Aretha Franklin"
Stardust, Las Vegas
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