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NANCY KELLY: POWERFUL AND CAPTIVATING!

By Maximillien de Lafayette

POWERFUL!! A tornado of music! Explosive, mesmerizing and dangerously captivating Diva!! And there is nothing you can do about it, except, sit, listen, and witness how Goddesses descend on earth, take you by storm and lift you up to the magical firmament of music, splendors and delightful madness…Her performance on stage is the culmination of life in all its forms, passages, seasons and adventures. A performance which explodes from within, from the depth of her inner universe, abundant with wisdom, experience, knowledge, ups and downs, guts and reflections, beauty and reflective hesitations, mesmerizing personality and unsurpassed talent. Nancy Kelly is not a singer. Nancy Kelly is the high priestess of the altar of cosmic music where the best music offerings and graces are offered to the Gods, for they come from a Jazz Goddess. Beauty, talent, persona and half human half divine magic are elevated to the firmament of perfection through the voice of Nancy Kelly. This superb artist lives her experiences and metamorphoses with life itself. Life is crystallized on stage when Kelly appears. When Kelly begins to sing, to dance, to play the piano, the drums, the bass and tease her audience. Ten years of classical piano training along with vocal lessons from the Eastman School of Music, as well as drama and dance instruction have made Nancy Kelly the perfect performer. Her repertoire has no limits, for her versatility transcends all frontiers and dimensions of known and unknown musical genres. She is operatic, Jazzy, lyrical, classical, classy, refined, outrageous, stunning, traditional and progressive. This is how we explain her universal appeal wherever she goes and wherever she performs from Singapore to Canada and from here to eternity. She has been compared to Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald. But her fans believe that Nancy Kelly is the “Great Nancy Kelly! And I think that, this woman is almost perfect!" Nancy described herself as a cross between old style saloon singer and a hard swingin' jazz singer. "I’m a bebop singer at heart, but from a stylistic standpoint the music I perform covers mainstream jazz, soft pop and cabaret. I’m also from the old school that Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Benett and Frank Sinatra belong to in that I love to entertain an audience." When Asked why upstate New York Kelly replied: "I realize that living along the shore of Lake Ontario might not be as advantageous for a jazz career as say, living in Manhattan, Bit this is a beautiful part of the country and it provides me with the type of spiritual connection to my roots that enables me to recharge creativity between gigs."

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