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belinda blair
Belinda Blair writes and records her style of dark and ethereal compositions from the confines her home studio, a small cottage perched on the edge of the bay just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. In an effort to have space on the tracks for the vocals and lyrics, she recorded and produced them on her laptop by playing sparse guitar and ukulele tracks with percussion loops. Being her first attempt at production and engineering, she learns more with each recording venture, experimenting with new mixes in hopes of eventually being able to perform the songs live.
Belinda currently performs her solo ukulele act, DIRTY BLONDE ON UKE, a dark comic ukulele mash-up of americana, vintage jazz, lounge, country, blues, reggae and funk tunes. With a keen sense of the ironic, she heckles her audiences with tongue-in-cheek banter while mixing genres that have no business being together on tenor ukulele and voice. You can catch her on the SF Cabaret /Burlesque circuit or at intimate, eclectic venues in Soma and the Mission. As part of the Burning Man community, she's known for her sassy Center Camp performances and her opening sets as crowd fluffer at most Burning Man events and theme camp benefits.
Check out Belinda's website at belindablair.com to hear more original music along with her jazz trio, BLAIR JAZZ PROJECT, that performs regularly around the bay area. They play what she calls, the "pain and suffering sets" mostly consisting of torch songs and blues ala Billie Holiday. Her 6-piece swing band, JELLYROLL, put out 2 cd's during the heyday of the SF swing scene and can be found on line at jellyroll.net.
Belinda recently signed a publishing deal for her songs with Rescue Records, a division of 5 Alarm Music in L.A. who license songs for tv and film. Check out her page at rescuerecords.net under the singer/songwriter category.
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- Who are you?
- singer/songwriter/performer/bandleader/uke-aholic/
- What do you play?
- vocal chords and ukulele
- What are you interested in?
- Performing, recording, letting a song write itself, telling a really good story, hearing a really good story, hearing a great band, hearing a great singer, singing with other singers...shall I go on? Well, you asked....
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Welcome to sfjazz.ning. Cool "vintage" photo. Maybe Rescue Records would let you post a couple of audio clips here? I hope you'll post your gigs in the Events section. I would love to come out and hear you.
C.