Nashville is different. I’ve never been in a city like this before. Everything is about music. When you see people having a conversation it’s probably about music in one way or the other. How they can get their career going, which song they are writing […]
You can read and hear everything about a city, but to get a real view you need to be there. I got hooked on the welcoming Chicago in one week, but it was time to move on. Hard to leave, a bit scary, but also exciting. […]
She was scaring two guys in front of the stage at Buddy Guy’s Legends while singin’ to them. That’s how I got to know Holle Thee Maxwell or ‘The Black Blonde Bombshell’ for the first time. Her strong performance and voice really impressed me. She had […]
‘Sing it the way you want, don’t use the same ad-libs as Etta James. Feel it. Make the song your own.’ These are just a few valuable pieces of advice from blues artist Linsey Alexander while I was on stage with him. Yes I have […]
Johnny be Good, At Last, The Hoochie Coochie Man, Maybellene. Even if you don’t realize you probably know a song that was recorded at the Chess Studio. Sunday Kind of Love sang by Etta James is also one of them. It was the first one […]
‘The Windy City’ they call it. For me it’s ‘The City of Blues’. On my first night I was looking for some food and saw a place that even looked cool on the outside. A guy, later I heard his name was Johnny Sims, saw […]
Billie Holiday, Lena Horne & the Count Basie Orchestra made their debut in this place. Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan and many more won the same contest I’m now auditioning for. The Apollo Theater is pretty special to me. A lot of women whose songs […]
From the humongous and impressive, fancy New York Public Library to the raw and industrial Williamsburg. I wasn’t at my best after three jazzclubs in a row the night before. A little bit disoriented and tired, but went on my way and it was great […]
The green is dancing around the old rail track. The High Line in Manhattan is a real sightseeing tour. You’re walking above the roads and have great views of the city. Walked down to take a peak in Chelsea Market and ate some nice oysters […]
Never thought that I would be this impressed. But I was. It was grand, enormous and overwhelming. I’m starting to sound like a real American. What a day, what a day. Interviewing the creative and ‘out-of-the-box-thinker’ Vivienne Aerts at Ix Cafe on Lincoln Road. A Dutch […]
