Maxine Weldon

Maxine Weldon (* in Holdenville, Oklahoma ) is an American singer in the area of ​​soul, rhythm and blues and jazz.

Biography

Weldon was the fourth of six children of a music teacher. She grew up in Bakersfield ( California ), where she first worked on country music. She moved it to Honolulu, where she first worked as a nurse full time, then began a career as a professional singer, and appeared in local clubs.

She toured five years through Asia, married in South Korea and returned in 1965 with her ​​son in the United States back. They lived first in San Francisco, where she had engagements in clubs again; In 1969 she went to Los Angeles, where she (1972 /73) and 1979, a greater awareness by appearances in television shows with Bill Cosby, on the Tonight Show by participation in a Billie Holiday Tribute concert series with Nina Simone, Carmen McRae Morgana King and Esther Phillips acquired.

1970/71 they took - among others with members of the Jazz Crusaders - their debut album at Mainstream Records, which among other things Cover versions of Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone numbers and It Is not Me Babe contained. Her biggest success was the album Some Singin ' (1974 ), the # 48 on the Billboard R & B Album Charts. One last album was released in 1975. During the 1980s and 1990s, she appeared to be on a regular basis, but did not provide any more albums before. In 1983 she toured with the Cotton Club Revue in Los Angeles and Chicago. From 1995 to 1997 she participated in the European tour of the Broadway production of Black and Blue; then they toured with Linda Hopkins and the show Wild Women Blues by 2007 Europe.

She was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999.

Welson had a cameo appearance in an episode of the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994).

Disco Graphical Notes

• Right On ( Mainstream Records, 1970) with Carol Kaye, Victor Feldman, Joe Sample, Plas Johnson
• Chilly Wind ( Mainstream, 1971) with Ernie Wilkins, Blue Mitchell, Bobby Bryant, Harry "Sweets " Edison, Hadley Caliman, Ernie Watts, Fred Robinson, George Bohannon, Earl Palmer
• Some Singin ( Monument Records, 1974)
• Alone on My Own ( Monument, 1975)
• Call It Love (2000)

Links / sources

• Website
• Maxine Weldon at Allmusic (English)
• Entry into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
• Maxine Weldon at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Portrait at soundological

References / Comments

• Jazz Singer
• R & B singer
• Soul singer
• American musician
• Born in the 20th century
• Woman