Denise Jannah

Denise Jannah, actually Denise Johanna Zeefuik, ( born November 5, 1956 in Paramaribo, Suriname ) is a Dutch jazz singer.

Life

She was born as the eldest of four daughters of the pastor ( " Dominee " ) Karel Zeefuik in Suriname and moved the mid-1970s to the Netherlands, where she first few years of law in Utrecht, studied, and completed it at the Conservatory in Hilversum, where they earned a degree as a singing teacher. In 1989, she won the third prize in the song festival people on the seafront in Rostock and was engaged in the same year for the musical A night at the Cotton Club, with whom she in 1989/90 occurred in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1991 they released their debut album, Take It from the Top ( Timeless Records). In the same year she won the Golden Microphone in the national singing competition in Breda and first appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

For their second, recorded in New York, album A Heart Full of Music ( 1993), she received the Edison Jazz Award. In 1995 she was commissioned by Blue Note Records, ( I was born in love with you with Big Band ), the first Dutch jazz musicians ever. In 1996 a crossover album Different Colours. In the same year, the documentary filmmaker Hans Hylkema turned upon them the film Denise Jannah - new lady in jazz. In 1997, she appeared in The Hague on the occasion of the celebrations for 50 years of Marshall Plan to ( in the presence of the Queen of the Netherlands, EU representatives and Bill Clinton). They also toured in Chile and Japan. In 1998, she had one of the title roles in the musical Is not Misbehavin '.

In 2000, she took the Willem Breuker collective deep, with which they went on tour, and was awarded the Audience Award at the Edison Jazz Award. In addition to frequent appearances at the North Sea Jazz Festival she performed at numerous festivals in the Caribbean, the U.S. and Europe. In 2003, she played a lead role in Jonah by Willem Breuker and Karel Deurloo. In 2004 she released an album sung poems own poem called Gezongen.

For several years she taught in the Jazz Department of the Conservatory of Rotterdam World Music. She also works as a vocal coach for various theaters.