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 Performance November 12th at 7PM. After honing his art and craft for many years with discipline and singular imagination, Bay Area-based vocalist Nicolas Bearde is finding broader recognition. A supremely gifted singer/entertainer who is fluent in soul, jazz and R&B stylings, Bearde has been compared to vocal icons like Lou Rawls, MarvinGaye, Donny Hathaway, and Jon Lucien. But such comparisons fail to capture his vocal artistry or do justice to his musical accomplishments on record or in performance. “He’s a breath of fresh air amidst a mass of polluted ozone-unfriendly pop,” declared Blues and Soul magazine in the U.K., where Bearde’s music has been accorded an especially enthusiastic reception and where he placed high on the list of Best Male Newcomers in the publication’s 1998 poll. In addition to his high-profile role with Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra – the innovative a cappella group of which Nicolas was a founding member – and SoVoSo, the artistic offshoot of Voicestra, with whom he’s toured and recorded since the mid-1990s, Bearde has worked steadily with an array of artists from Patti Austin, Michael Bolton and Janis Siegel to McFerrin, John Handy, Chris Camozzi, and his own outstanding group, the Right Groove. He’s cut three albums for Right Groove Records, his own imprint. The first, 1998's Crossing the Line, the 2005 follow-up All About Love and 2008's Live at Yoshi's - A Salute to Lou . Bearde also maintains a busy sideline as an actor for stage, screen, and television and as a voice-over artist. His somewhat circuitous path to a career as a singer began in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was born the second of seven children. "We lived in a rural part of the city with no sidewalks, streetlights or running water. But we had each other and-we had radio”, Nicolas recalls. “I listened to a lot of radio, and took in everything from the Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, and Roy Orbison to Etta James, Lou Rawls and Arthur Prysock.” He began singing in church choirs, or with his brother and cousins whenever he could, pretending that they were "The Temptations" or the “Dells” or some other popular group.
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Steak, Seafood, Pasta & Live Entertainment Seven Days a Week BAR & GRILL 1400 Broadway Burlingame, CA 94010 T 650.343.9333 F 650.343.8944 info@bwgrill.com |
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BROADWAY GRILL
"Steak, Seafood, Pasta
& Live Entertainment"
1400 Broadway
Burlingame, CA 94010
T 650.343.9333
F 650.343.8944
info@bwgrill.com
Burlingame, CA 94010
T 650.343.9333
F 650.343.8944
info@bwgrill.com
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