JANICE PENDARVIS's Profile |
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| Location: | NEW YORK, New York |
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| Last Login: | Apr 2, 2008 (641 days back) |
About Me |
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Janice Pendarvis is an eclectic, elegant, world-class performer known for her ability to sing R&B, pop, jazz, reggae, rock and avant-garde music. She has worked with a diverse roster of artists including Sting, Roberta Flack, Laurie Anderson, Peter Tosh, Philip Glass, The Rolling Stones, Nona Hendryx, The O'Jays, Jimmy Cliff.You may have seen Janice on tour with Sting; on Late Night with Letterman and Saturday Night Live over the years as a featured soloist or background singer. She has sung on live shows all over the world; on records and CD's; commercials and films.Janice is featured in the documentary, Bring on the Night, about the beginning of Sting’s solo career and his first band and in the film Home of the Brave, Laurie Anderson’s filmed version of her Mr. Heartbreak tour. Janice appears on Sting’s All This Time DVD which chronicles how the events of 9/11/01 intersected with the plans for a major concert at Sting’s home in Tuscany on the same day.Equally at home in her roles as a lead singer, support vocalist, announcer, voice actor and on-camera personality, Janice also has a distinguished career in voiceovers. She has been one of the voices of NY's Channel Thirteen (WNET) for years and is currently featured in a new book featuring the top voiceover performers in the country, entitled, "Secrets of Voiceover Success." |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 9/8/2006Influences: My mother and father, family, my ancestors and their indomitable strength & wisdom, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, Motown, Etta Jones, Leontyne Price, Roberta Flack, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Aaron Neville, Billy Stewart, Lena Horne, Peter Tosh, all of the legendary cats I've had the privilege of working with (male & female, instrumental & vocal), Freedom Now Suite, Missa Luba, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Octavia Butler, Vincent Van Gogh, Romare Bearden, Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, Africa, Brazil, the Bible, the Koran, the blues, anime, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Public Enemy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rolling Stones (especially Keith & Mick), Jimi Hendrix, Bill Chinnock, rock and roll, R&B, jazz, music from Zaire, church music from Gregorian to gospel, Ofra Haza, Cheb Mami Sounds Like:Herself! Record Label: Unsigned Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (R&B / Nu-Jazz / Funk) |
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Film, TV and Other Credits on IMDb |
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| Check out my film, TV and other credits at www.IMDb.com. You'll find a sampling of some of the many things I've done. Posted by JANICE PENDARVIS on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:14:00 PST |
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Janice Pendarvis Discography |
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| I have recorded a lot of music. I guess I was so busy doing it and loving it that I wasn't cataloguing what I was doing. A partial list of the projects I've worked on is listed below. If you know o... Posted by JANICE PENDARVIS on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:13:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Darlene Love, robin, Jocelyn Brown, Paulette McWilliams, Richard Tee, Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson Tribute, darryl tookes band, Catherine Russell, gregory, Marlon Saunders, Howard Johnson, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Christian McBride Band, Ray Chew, Boyd Jarvis, Audrey Martell, Narada Michael Walden, Quincy Jones, Sting, Clark Gayton, David Liebman, Nathan East, Kenny Kirkland, Ernest Ranglin, John Tropea, Steve Khan, Carlos Alomar, Doc Powell, ELLIOTT RANDALL, TM Stevens, Buddy Williams, Corey Glover, DJ David Morales, Clive Hunt, Anton Fig, Kenny, HRHScoobie, Luiz Santos Music, LIN aka LINguistic, Antonio Danese, Doug Hinrichs, Fuzzbee, The Robert Black Band, JT LEWIS/RHYTHM IS LIFE!/TIME IS NOT MY ENEMY!, ♥ ♥ KARLA ♥ ♥, Denzel's # 1 Fan, New York Singers Collective, The Peanuts, Bobby Ricketts, Arty White, Paddy, Miles Jaye, Stephan Scheuss, Boo K, alexandra, Debbi, De Marco Johnson, Chad Thorne, Andersen - One Nation Under A Groove, Kim Davis, Zoot James, Alison Crockett, Not Your Average String Thing, LITTLE ROCK NINE, M, Brig Feltus
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