Kira Small sings her ass off and writes great songs. Equally captivating on her own at the piano or slinking around the stage in front of a smoking band, she will surely cure what ails you. How does this white chick from Wisconsin sound like anything but a white chick from Wisconsin? Who knows, who cares…it’s working. Maybe it was the gospel, jazz and R&B she discovered in high school. Maybe it was Berklee College of Music's many and varied influences. Maybe it was her years of soaking up soulfulness in Austin, TX. Maybe it was the position of the moon and stars at the precise moment of her birth. Whatever it was, this is an old soul speaking through a vibrant and powerful young voice. Kira has followed her muse to many musical and geographical destinations. She sang and danced in production shows in San Antonio, witnessed Mardi Gras from behind the piano at Pat O’Brien’s, became a fixture in the Austin music scene, returned to Boston as a member of Berklee’s voice faculty in 1999, and finally (for now) landed in Nashville in 2001 where she has worked with Wynonna Judd, Martina McBride, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Gretchen Wilson, Radney Foster, the Jordanaires, Jimmy Hall, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, among others. While Nashville is most known for country music, there is a deep vein of southern soul and R&B running through it that Kira has tapped into, and it has become her lifeblood. Her new CD, Love In A Dangerous World, was produced by Bruce Dees and features R&B veterans with resumes too long to list here. Grammy award winning songwriter Mike Reid took one listen and exclaimed, “Kira – you sound like a neat glass of single malt in a world of Michelob Ultra.” | |||
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Uncommon Ground Past Show Dates | |||
| 2007-09-26 (283 days) | Julie Moffitt | ||
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