Bio: Smooth yet edgy, mellow yet powerful, sweet yet sexy … just some of the textures that color Gloria Miller’s unique vocal style as she flows seamlessly between Jazz, Soul, R&B and Blues. With over 20 years experience in the music business, you realize from the fir...st listen that Gloria knows how to use her voice to navigate her audience through a maze of emotions. She brings a level of musicianship to her performance that sets her apart from the rest with her impressive vocal range and her heartfelt delivery of every song she sings. Her aim is to create music for life and she uses this mantra to guide her when writing a song or choosing a song for her show, which consists of a good mix of original and cover tunes. There have been many artists who have influenced Gloria’s approach to communicating a song including Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Natalie Cole, Anita Baker, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner. She pays tribute to many of these amazing performers during her show covering some of their greatest hits. Gloria has a universal style with a fun and upbeat personality that consistently appeals to audiences across the globe, having performed in Spain, France, Italy, Russia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, England, Africa and all around the U.S. Gloria gives a high energy performance whether she is entertaining as a Duo, Trio or Quartet. In 1989 Gloria released her first solo recording, He Loves Me, and followed up that release with Forever With You in 1996. This independent release received national attention when Gloria performed the title song during Gospel Music Week in Nashville, landing her a distribution deal with Heaven’s Eyes Records. Gloria wrote and co-produced both recordings. In May, 2008 Gloria signed with Tate Music Group (TMG) and is currently in production for her debut TMG release due out this Spring. Originally from Chicago, Gloria relocated to Orlando, Florida in 1999 to work for Disney World as a lead singer in their stage shows. From there she worked as a headliner for several major cruise companies including Disney, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruise Lines. Gloria moved to Milwaukee in 2007 and it didn’t take long for her to become a part of its burgeoning music scene. In just a years time Gloria has gained a strong local following and has performed in some of the best venues around town including John Hawk’s Pub, The Art Bar, The Grove, Twist ‘N Olive, Piano Blu, Mason St. Grill, The Estate and Border’s Books. Milwaukee has some of the most skilled and talented musicians around and Gloria has been fortunate enough to work with many of them including Scott Currier, Lou Cucunato, Sam Steffke, Kostia, John Hefter; Jon Matelski, Tom McGirr, John Price, George Welland, Nick Buendia; Bill Sargent, Jeff Kuliga, Tom Utchig and Lynn Lewandowski.

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Marcus Miller

SMV - Marcus Miller solo LIve at the Olympia, Paris , France 03/07/09 He covered Shake your body (The Jacksons) and then at 4:40, he covered 'Human nature' (Michael Jackson)

Stanley Clark Marcus Miller Victor Wooten - Final (with 'Beat it' Michael Jackson cover) LIve at the Olympia, Paris , France 03/07/09

Victor Wooten redefines the word musician. Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. He is an innovator on the bass guit...ar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. But those gifts only begin to tell the tale of this Tennessee titan. Victor is the loving husband and devoted father of four; the youngest sibling of the amazing Wooten brothers (Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph), and the bassist in their famed family band; the student in the martial art of Wing Chun and the nature survival skill of Tracking; the teacher of dozens of bass players at his acclaimed annual Bass & Nature camp; and the master magician. Victor Lemonte Wooten got to music early, growing up in a military family in which his older brothers all played and sang. By the time he was 3, Victor was being taught bass by his oldest brother Regi, and at age 5 he was performing professionally with the Wooten Brothers Band. He recalls, “My parents and brothers were the foundation. They prepared me for anything by teaching me to keep my mind open and learn to adapt.” Working their way east from Sacramento, the band played countless clubs and eventually opened concerts for Curtis Mayfield and War. Victor was influenced by bass mentors, Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins, while learning about the music business at a wildly accelerated pace. By the early ’80s, with the family settled in Newport News, Virginia, the brothers became mainstays at Busch Gardens theme park in nearby Williamsburg, making numerous connections with musicians in Nashville and New York. In 1988 Victor moved to Nashville, where he worked with singer Jonell Mosser and met New Grass Revival banjo ace Béla Fleck. A year later, Fleck enlisted Vic, his brother Roy (a.k.a. Future Man) and harmonica-playing keyboardist Howard Levy to perform with him, and the Flecktones were born. After three highly successful albums, Levy departed in 1993, and the band’s new trio format enabled Victor to develop and display a staggering array of fingerboard skills that turned him into a bass hero of Pastorian-proportions and helped earn the band a Grammy. With the Flecktones in full flight, Victor set his sights on a solo career, first forming Bass Extremes with fellow low-end lord Steve Bailey (leading to an instructional book/CD and two CDs, to date), and finally releasing his critically-acclaimed solo debut, A Show of Hands, in 1996. Soon after, Vic took his solo show on the road with drummer J.D. Blair. Momentum and accolades built with successive tours and the release of What Did He Say? in 1997, the Grammy-nominated Yin-Yang in 1999 and the double CD, Live In America in 2001. Wooten won two Nashville Music Awards for Bassist Of The Year and is the only three-time winner of Bass Player magazine’s Bass Player Of The Year. With the honors came sideman calls, leading to recordings and performances with artists like Branford Marsalis, Mike Stern, Bruce Hornsby, Chick Corea, Dave Matthews, Prince, Gov’t Mule, Susan Tedeschi, Vital Tech Tones (with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith), the Jaco Pastorius Word Of Mouth Big Band, and the soundtrack of the Disney film Country Bears. Fresh off sold-out tours with the Flecktones and Bass Extremes (with Bailey, Watson and Oteil Burbridge) in 2004, Victor is re-focusing on his solo side in 2005 thanks to a remarkable new CD, his Vanguard Records debut, Soul Circus. A three-ring affair, the disc boasts such guests as the Wooten brothers, Bootsy Collins, Arrested Development rapper/vocalist Speech, Howard Levy, Dennis Chambers, Saundra Williams, J.D. Blair, Derico Watson, Flecktone Jeff Coffin, and a who’s-who of bassists, including Bailey, Burbridge, Will Lee, Rhonda Smith, Christian McBride, T.M. Stevens, Bill Dickens and Gary Grainger. On Soul Circus, Victor performs his usual high-wire act on a bevy of basses, but the real ringmaster here is his collection of songs: The poignant “Prayer” and Prince-charged flipside “Natives” provide a thought-provoking look at our native Americans. The epic “Bass Tribute” pays homage to great thumpers past and present. “On and On” is an instant soul classic. “Cell Phone” makes a chuckle-filled, cutting-edge connection. “Higher Law” stands as a stadium-ready, rock-funk protest anthem in the best Sly Stone tradition. “Back to India” currys up simmering musical flavors. And the hip hop/jazz title track marks the sonic coming-out of the long-rumored eight-armed character seen on the CD’s cover and in the liner notes: Yes, Virginia (and the rest of the world), there is a funktopus! Victor Wooten has the rare ability to continuously raise the bar, always growing as an artist, and he’s excited to have joined the Vanguard roster with the release of Soul Circus.

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Marcus Miller

Marcus Miller