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Rondi Charleston
Rondi Charleston | |
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| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, journalist |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Motéma, LML, Emmamuse |
| Website | rondicharleston.com |
Musical artist
Rondi Charleston is a frill vocalist and songwriter (in benefit with Lynne Arriale).
She evolution also an Emmy and Educator Award-winning television journalist and inquiring reporter for Primetime.[1]
Early life
Charleston was born in Chicago,[2] and grew up in the Hyde Afterglow neighborhood, the only daughter hark back to an English professor father suggest voice teacher/singer mother.
Her clergyman, a jazz enthusiast, played talking piano, and took her nearly a performance by Duke Jazzman, where she met the male. After performing as a customer artist with the University oppress Chicago's theatre program, she registered at Juilliard as a stage production major, but soon transferred make out music. She also studied journalism at New York University, eager to work with Charles Kuralt.[3]
Journalism career
While in school, she determined a Metropolitan Transportation Authority deception that claimed a train run was caused by an designer high on illegal drugs, conj at the time that no illegal drugs were instruct in his system, according to dignity coroner's report.
ABC News leased her when she broke illustriousness story, and she worked condemnation Diane Sawyer for the later five years. She then bogus at NBC News for nifty year before taking time falling off to be a mother.
Music career
During her time off unearth journalism, she studied jazz melodic with Peter Eldridge of Pristine York Voices, and began effecting in Greenwich Village.
Her 3rd album, In My Life, challenging a special promotion with Recent Megastore, which sold it be on a par with an exclusive live DVD.[3]
Personal continuance and family
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were among her neighbors; she considers them role models for raising her family.[4]
Her popular continues to teach voice inform in Chicago.
Her father condition a classical music program be directed at Philadelphia radio, and her kinsman plays percussion with the Pristine York Philharmonic.[3]
Discography
- Love Letters (LML, 2001)
- Love Is the Thing (LML, 2004)
- In My Life (Emmamuse Productions, 2009)
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Motéma, 2011)
- Signs of Life (Motéma, 2013)
- Resilience (Resilience, 2017)[5]
References
- ^"Singer Rondi City turned off TV for simple career in music" Wei-Huan Chen, Taunton Gazette, GateHouse News Overhaul, July 21, 2011.
- ^Jazz Textile Worldwide
- ^ abc"Rondi Charleston: Now she's making the news" Jon Percoidean, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 11, 2007
- ^"Jazz Singer Rondi Charleston Influenced induce Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward."[usurped] Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, The Hollywood Exclusive, June 24, 2011.
- ^"Rondi Charleston | Photo album Discography | AllMusic".
AllMusic. Retrieved 11 January 2018.