You know fam....
I was just online doing my usual thing...surfing for interesting plus sized happenings or people in the news. I found this chick's name on a "plus size celeb" site and because I'd never heard of her; I googled her name and found some of her music videos on You Tube.
If you know me at all, then you know I am not easily impressed with today's singer's per se.....but Jane Monheit is different! Although not as juicy as I initially thought (she's probably about a size 12 now....definitely no larger), she is amazingly beautiful (SERIOUS model looks for real ya'll!) and has a voice that could only come from The Creator Him (or Her) self! She's really that good ya'll!
From The L.A. Times review:
JANE MONHEIT can do just about anything she chooses, musically. Blessed with an extraordinarily warm and supple voice, perfect pitch, inventive musicality and an insightful approach to storytelling, she has the capacity to express herself convincingly in virtually any area of the music world.
It's hard to believe that a scant seven years have passed since a 22-year-old Long Islander named Jane Monheit -- now renowned as one of the world's most beloved and accomplished song stylists -- signed her first recording contract, for Manhattan's relatively small but enthusiastically supportive N-Coded label.
Her debut album, Never Never Land, introduced the world to two indisputable facts. First, as the cover portrait demonstrated, Monheit is a stunning, raven-haired beauty. Second, as the ten standards that filled the impressive disc made immediately obvious, Monheit, with her crystalline voice and buttery phrasing, was (and remains) impossible to pigeonhole, simultaneously suggesting the smarts of a seasoned jazz artist and the cunning storytelling skills of the finest cabaret performers.
Since then, two of her recordings have received Grammy nominations, she has known the sweet satisfaction of chart-topping success (several of her discs have debuted at number one), done her festive duty with a stunning Christmas album (The Season), and found herself moving to Sony for her two most recent albums, 2004's Taking a Chance on Love and the subsequent yuletide disc.Now, for Surrender, her seventh album in as many years, Monheit has opted to follow such estimable vocal predecessors as Rosemary Clooney, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Curtis Stigers and Karrin Allyson into the artist-friendly fold of the Concord Music family.
For Monheit, Surrender also marks an artistic 'coming home' of sorts, since the evocatively
intimate title track was penned by masterful composer, arranger and vocalist Peter Eldridge (of New York Voices and Four Brothers fame), Jane's first and only vocal coach, with whom she studied at the Manhattan School of Music while still in her teens.Jane Monheit will be appearing at Feinstein's at The Regency Hotel in New York City from January 20, 2009 through February 7, 2009.
I am definitely going to try and catch one of her sets family! She's gonna be HUGE. Mark my words!
http://www.janemonheitonline.com/
Check out her INCREDIBLY sultry & sexy version of "This Christmas"....This chick ROCKS!!!
“Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul"
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