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Suede
(? - living) U.S.A.

Suede

Singer

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Born in Nyack, New York, just outside the city, Suede knew early on that she wanted to make singing her life. Her natural talent wowed friends and family throughout her childhood, culminating in her first "bar gigs" while still in high school.

Completely self taught until her college years, Suede then began formal training in classical voice and trumpet, obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree before launching her musical career shortly after graduation.

She moved around quite a bit in those early years thanks to her father's position with 3M. She attended high school in Severna Park, MD, college in Iowa, and returned to settle "what turned out to be temporarily" in Baltimore. Baltimore was her home base for about 16 years.

She started out in the Washington/Baltimore area playing locals clubs from Harrisburg, PA to Richmond, VA seven nights a week, booking the gigs, running her own sound and traveling in her trusty Toyota hatchback, which somehow fit all her instruments and sound gear.

Indeed, the requisite dues have been paid, as Suede has evolved from playing 'Proud Mary' behind chicken wire to packing the best concert halls and jazz clubs in the US and Europe. Easily Suede Music, her own record label founded in 1988, allows Suede to maintain artistic control and make independent creative choices in her work.

In '98 Suede moved from Baltimore to Cape Cod - a big transition - since her sojourn in Baltimore was her longest anywhere. Unlike Baltimore - or most other metropolitan areas, life on the Cape is "so relaxed, so completely inclusive." To be embraced as just another member of the community is a welcome scenario for her.

The calm of the area is conducive to her work, enabling long hours in the office to work on the business end of her music (she owns the company), then taking walks along the ocean or bay which are "practically just outside my door. Being here has grounded me, inspired me, and given me the space to create again, after a very difficult few years."

This consummate lesbian entertainer sings original material and pop, blues and jazz standards like nobody you've ever heard, while accompanying herself on the piano, trumpet and guitar.

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Website: http://www.suedewave.com

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