Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball ( born March 20, 1949 in Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist.

Ball grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, where she grew up in a musical family. All female family members played piano. She began playing the piano at the age of five years, but with the Blues they only came at the age of 13 years in contact with her aunt when she heard music more modern than the one she had not heard from the grandmother's collection. In 1970, she wanted to go to San Francisco, but car broke down in Austin, Texas led her after she had met the city to stay there. There she formed her first band ( Freda and the Fire Dogs ), 1974, she began her solo career. First, she took on the critically acclaimed albums on Rounder Records, 2001, she signed a record deal for Alligator Records.

Your piano playing is rooted in the New Orleans Blues, as represented him James Booker and Professor Longhair, and contains elements of Zydeco and Boogie Woogie. The main influence for her singing style she called Irma Thomas. It is one of the most famous representatives of the Louisiana blues.

Marcia Ball has established itself as an important part of the club scene, both of New Orleans and Austin and occurs in addition to their concerts in North America also at festivals and concerts in Europe.

Awards

Discography

• 2000: Don Wise - In the verge of survival, along with Delbert McClinton