yolanashjazz
yola nash, Female, United States
www.yolanash.comLast seen: December 2008
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A nonprofit - CPR Awareness.org –Founder
Yola carries master's degree in Psychology. She is educated in Fine Arts, has over 12 years of experience in TV and radio and has impressive achievements in music and philanthropy.
She sung for the Pope John Paul II.
In New York studied R&B with Dee Jackson, background singer with Patti LaBelle and jazz with professor of Manhattan School of Music Nancy Marano.
She has performed and recorded with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and trumpeter, multi-Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis.
Making history: she is the only Polish-American vocalist to have performed with them.
She’s performed and worked with (violin virtuoso) Grammy winner Marc O'Connor, Wycliffe Gordon, Frank Kimborough, Mat Wilson, Marcus Printup, Ben Allison, Bill Schimmel, Ali Jackson and more.
She’s recorded and produced with Norah Jones’s engineer Pete DeBoar and Grammy winner Kid Rock’s producer-engineer Bob Ebeling.
She sang the title song for an Asian/American film "Destiny," by Louis Zalu.
Successfully debuted with her album "Another Girl" on Top Shelf Rec.
Scott Yanow one of the most respected jazz music critics said: “Yola Nash's debut…album full of passion, electronics, and power. Yola...shows strong potential." " This is the kind of music to get lost into. This CD has its own very unique flavor. "
Her single "I wanna be loved by you" quickly climbed the radio charts all over the country. During it's first week out the beautiful, soulful ballad got to #1 place as "Most Added". Shortly after it was chosen as Best New Music by prestigious FMQB music magazine. Yola got to the TOP 20 and TOP 40 on AC radio music charts in the US, as well as Top 20 and top 40 on FMQB Magazine and New Music Weekly Magazine.
She appeared on the WNYC-TV show "NYC Profiles" with it’s famous host Mickey Burns between such great music guests as: Roberta Flack, Gloria Gaynor, and Chuck Mangione. Yola was a part of the "Women in Rock" series in LA, on the well known radio KRLA. Also WRKL NY, WLIM Long Island and WNVR Chicago radio stations and Satelite XM Radio in NYC, WKCR Jazz NYC, WBGO National Jazz Station, WOR NYC Joey Reynolds Show, WPLJ Radio, Lite FM and NY1 TV, Polonia TV, Studio 3 TV, Polmusic TV, WNYE TV.
Yola Nash currently is: involved with a documentary production as an Associated Producer, visiting universities as a Speaker on CPR, preparing her new TV show.
For more info about Yola Nash please visit her web sites:
www.myspace.com/yolanash
www.cprawareness.org
www.yolanash.com
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