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ANN ANELLO
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"This girl is going
places." "Ann Anello...a brilliant
performer." "Ann Anello makes a strong
impression every time she sets foot on stage." Many celebrities have been impressed with Ann's extraordinary talent. She has performed with Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis, Jr., Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Andy Garcia, Sammy Cahn, Aidan Quinn, Bret Butler, Carly Simon, Frankie Valli, Lloyd Price, Oscar Peterson, Pat Cooper and Phyllis Diller. She has co-starred with Jackie Mason in the film "The Stoolie." She has been on TV, and her original music can be heard on several TV shows. She has appeared on Broadway and performed with national philharmonic orchestras. She has also toured Europe and the Orient. "Her experience
in the theatre is conveyed in every move, in every gesture and in the
manner in which she sells her songs."
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SUSAN ASHLEY see video - click here
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An accomplished singer/dancer/songwriter and actress, Susan Ashley comes to you from an impressive background that spans the creative medium of television, theatre, and the recording studio. Susan has worked with such greats as Barbara Streisand, Sammy Davis, Jr., Al Hirt, Gwen Verdon, and Robert Klein. Her voice has been heard on major radio and television commercials. Susan's extensive training demonstrates her dedication and commitment to succeed as a performer. She has studied voice with Louis Polanski and Marty Lawrence; refined her acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Warren Robertson Studio. She has studied jazz, ballet, and tap at numerous dance studios including Broadway Arts, the International School of Ballet and she has danced with the Zawacki Dance Company.
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Georgene Barger
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Georgene Barger is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She began piano lessons at the age of 4, and attended Baldwin-Wallace College as a piano major, but didn’t discover her singing potential until after graduation while playing in a piano bar. Much to everyone’s delight, she learned to utilize her 3½ octave vocal range! A full-time professional singer and keyboard player since 1978, Ms. Barger has experience in top-40, all-occasion, jazz and blues bands, plus studio production, teaching, composing, recording, commercial jingles, musical comedy, television guest spots and commercials and classical music. She was also in a show band in Atlantic City and has played keyboards behind national acts such as The Drifters, The Diamonds, The Chiffons and The Shirelles. In 1984, Ms. Barger settled in South Florida. Today she lives in Boynton Beach with her husband and two children. She is in demand as a vocalist, performing shows in condos and community centers and cabaret shows in restaurants. Her shows include jazz, pop, oldies, R&B, Big Band, Broadway, ethnic, and classical music. She records many of the background tracks herself and in some venues she plays piano or keyboard, as well. Ms. Barger’s love for music radiates from the stage to the audience. She is truly a singer’s singer. She imitates no one, but she has been compared to the likes of Barbra Streisand, Linda Eder, Sarah Brightman, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Keely Smith! She delivers the quiet songs with amazing control and expression, swings hard on the jazz numbers, jives and wails on the pop and R&B material, and thrills the crowd with her operatic, lyric soprano. Her audiences laugh one moment, cry the next and always feel uplifted!
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Barbara Brighton
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The Best of Broadway – The Best of Swing Barbara Brighton is an accomplished actress as well as a singer/comedienne. Her show business career started at 11 years of age in Boston, beginning with studies in ballet, jazz, piano and toe dancing. She studied voice at the University of Florida, and was chosen for a comedy role lead in summer stock in the city of New York. Since then she has been working in various musicals with such stars as Van Johnson, Chita Rivera, Gretchen Wyler, Molly Picon and many others. Her nightclub engagements have been at the Copa and Latin Quarters in Tokyo, an entertainment favorite in South America, Canada, Australia and Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Barbara has lately punched up her performances with sparkling, original stand up bits, including a dead-on impression of Joan Rivers. Barbara is an exciting singer and complete performer. She’s blessed with a big musical comedy type voice that can reach great distances with clarity and range. Her stage presence is dynamic and commanding. When she belts out a song, the audience melts. Seen on several TV series and on some of the best musicals on Broadway, you will be delighted to watch her in action. If you watch “General Hospital,” you will certainly recognize her as one of the fixtures.
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Holly Carroll
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Holly Carroll is a dynamic entertainer who has performed all over the world in nightclubs from the Sahara in Vegas to the Copa in Tokyo, to Printer’s Alley in Nashville, as well as major cruise ships and conventions. She performed on the soundtracks for the TV series “KOJAK” and has done many TV commercials. A song stylist in swing, jazz, blues, and country, her show runs the gamut from the show “Chicago” to “Crazy”. Sexy, talented and captivating – Holly Swings!
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ROBBIE CARSON
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Robbie Carson, a native of Eastern Canada, has been serenading crowds since childhood. She has toured with her own rock band and has been a featured performer at international jazz and pop festivals. She has performed in Asia and
Europe; she has been a frequent performer on Canadian national television and has also appeared in many nationally broadcast commercials. She describes her style as
Jazz to Broadway - with an international touch.
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Debbie Dunay
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Debbie Dunay was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She has spent over twenty years in New York where she sang and danced her way through numerous regional theatre productions including Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls and Oklahoma. She relocated to South Florida several years ago where, in addition to performing alone, she also began working with Mark Allen and together “Mark and Debbie” became the well known act known as the “Steve & Eydie of South Florida”. Her powerful voice continues to entertain audiences young and old. Currently, Debbie's act focuses primarily on the classic beloved Broadway songs of yesterday and today. She has performed in over 300 shows in venues including hotels, resorts, cruise ships, and night clubs throughout South Florida, often appearing with many well known entertainers. Recently she was the opening act for internationally renowned comedian Pat Cooper for his South Florida tour. Debbie’s love of music shows through with the energy and exuberance she brings to each performance. Her dynamic and classic style delights audiences whenever she takes the stage.
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Edie DiCaro
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Entertainment news from South Florida: There’s a new star on the horizon and her name is EDIE DICARO. When this effervescent bundle of energy performs, she just doesn’t take the stage, she commands it! With a strikingly elegant presence and a bubbling personality, she instantly lights up the room and delights the audience with her remarkable balance between high energy, show-stopping vocal ability and her sultry ballads. Originally from Chicago, Edie now makes South Florida her home. She has studied voice with opera great Gina Marati who has taught music to such famous singers such as Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine. Edie has also studied with retired Jewish cantor Seymour Schwartzman to prepare her for her hilarious number “Channah from Havana”. The song has three languages Yiddish, Spanish & English. After seeing Edie DiCaro’s show you will come away with a song in your heart and a smile on your face.
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Elena
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ELENA is an international singer-dancer. She sings in 9 languages, incorporating her extensive dance background into her shows. Her repertoire ranges from Broadway to Country. Elena presents an unusual fun-filled program for your club meetings and organizations.
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Harriet Grossman
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Harriet Grossman is a former resident of Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia. Since coming to Florida in 1982, she has entertained for many organizations, condos and retirement communities. Her exciting program includes fun songs from the 40s and 50s to familiar standards. Harriet’s unique style, musicality and presentation have endeared her to audiences of all ages as she embraces them with warmth and love.
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GWEN JOHNSON
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Gwen Johnson is considered by some as a Pearl Bailey flashback because of her easy going showmanship. Gwen definitely has her own unique uplifting ballad style which is colorfully flavored with crooning jazz and rhythm and blues. Gwen began singing at the age of 14 and has sung with various bands throughout the United States and Canada. Catch her act and see why she is getting new fans every day.
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MADELINE KERN
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Show Tunes, Nostalgic Songs, and a Tribute to Dinah Shore Songstress Madeline Kern is well known in the South Florida area as she captivates and charms her audiences at condos, country clubs, and organizational lunches with her velvet voice. In addition, she has sung her way around the world on over 500 cruises. A Dinah Shore look-a-like, Madeline always includes a tribute to her favorite singer in her act. As a Screen Actors Guild member, she has appeared in films and commercials and as an Actor's Equity member she has been featured in stage productions of "Love Letters" and "On a Clear Day." Her recently released CD is appropriately titled "The Velvet Voice of Madeline."
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JULIA LANGLEY
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Julia Langley has been performing since early childhood. She is musically gifted with the technique and vocal range to sing a wide range of musical styles, everything from blues to opera. She is also an accomplished entertainer and musician, totally at home on the stage as an accompanist, dancer or actress. This former Miss Alabama finalist has played the lead in the musical “Day After Day” and has toured with productions of “Evita” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”
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Christy Mauro-Cohen
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Christy was most recently seen as Doris Day in Days after Day.. a biography of Doris Day which is currently running all around South Florida after a successful run at the Broward Stage Door Theatre and the Hollywood Playhouse. Regional credits include the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat, Roxie Hart in Chicago, Victoria Grant in Victor/Victoria. She also appeared in the long running hit I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, and as Lucy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown at Actor’s Playhouse in Coral Gables. Other credits: The Goodbye Girl (Paula), The Sound of Music (Mara), Camelot (Guenivere), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), Always…Patsy Cline (Patsy) w/Sally Struthers in Las Vegas, Evita (Eva Peron) in Los Angeles and Boca Raton. Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi (Theda) South Florida Premiere, Man of La Mancha (Aldonza). The King and I (Tupim) at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and Romance, (Josephine/Monica). Christy has performed has a one-women show that she has successfully performed all over the world for 15 years now and counting. She has a CD entitled Torch Springs. Christy has has served as an opening act for David Brenner, Pat Cooper, Jackie Mason, Eddie Fisher, Jennifer Holiday, Rodney Dangerfield, Alan King, Alan Thicke, Robert Klein, and Buddy Hackett.
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Rachell Paston
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Sherry Press
Redler
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Sherry, from Lawrence, Long Island,
studied piano and voice at the Julliard School of Music; she has
a degree in drama with a minor in music from Adelphi University.
She has performed in community theatre, summer stock and industrial shows, she was also active in the Pittsburgh Playhouse, appearing in numerous musicals. She has also performed with the Connecticut Grand Opera. She has been a soloist at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton and Temple Beth Am in Jupiter. Her current act features show tunes, ballads, folk songs, pop, standards, and favorites, as well as songs in Yiddish and Hebrew. |
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RICKY REED
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Ricky is a former New York City musical school teacher. During the summers, she played the major hotels in the Catskill Mountains colonies. She sang and played guitar doing Hootenannies and folk concerts in Greenwich Village. She moved to Florida some years ago and took up her singing career as a pastime. After working as a social director for a major condominium community in West Palm Beach, she worked the condo circuit for Ari Kaduri which included all the Century Village Pointe East and Kings Point. She also sings with a Dixieland Band. Her songs include Ballads, Blues, Broadway and novelty tunes. She involves her audience as they clap and tap their feet to her songs. NO DANCING IN THE AISLES !!! PLEASE Ricky has played at many charity organization luncheons for Ort, Hadassah, Cleveland clubs, Men’s and Women’s social clubs, installation luncheons and paid-up members luncheons for condo clubs and organizations.
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ROBIN ROTH
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Robin has sung with the Christy Minstrels, Piro, and Doc Severinson. She has appeared on Happy Days, One Day at a Time, Star Fever, Love Boat, Hotel, Moonlighting, Miami Vice, Empty Nest, and General Hospital. Her theatrical credits include Music Man, Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, Miracle Worker, and Fannie Sadie to name a few. She has also appeared in numerous TV commercials. She is one of America's most versatile and talented entertainers - the perfect entertainment choice for your event or show. |
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Cecilia Roy
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Cecilia loves the music and the artists. You hear Ellington, Ella, Jobim…Old and New. In Europe, the U.S.A. and Canada she’s played, arranged, and taught with equal zeal. Classical, Pop, Latin, Jazz, are all brought alive through her playing and vocal stylings. Whether with a large bands or an intimate combos, she brings exuberance to her music and joy to her audiences. Originally from British Columbia, she currently makes her home in South Florida.
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Ann Seeborg Download Happy Medley mp3 click here
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"From her opener 'Taking a Chance
on Love,' through a stylized upbeat version of 'Come Rain Or Shine,' and
a hard hitting version of 'Nobody Till Somebody Loves,' she delivers
with verve and flair." |
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PAOLA SEMPRINI
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Paola Semprini is a well polished professional who has performed all over the world. She is a native of Verona Italy and does not belie that country’s reputation for fantastic singers. Her repertoire ranges from show tunes to opera and she often graces her audience with classic songs in her native Italian. “There are a few artists with personalities so powerful that they leave a completed impression. Ms. Semprini is this and more. She has developed a unique sound quality in her voice as well as an emotional fervor and brilliance of tone effortlessly produced over a wide range.” - Il Progresso Italiano-Americano
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Shonee
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Shonee is an innovational Vocalist, Entertainer, Actress, Musician, Writer, and Composer. This innovative, unique recording artist performs a vast spectrum of music and entertainment. Standards, Show, and Contemporary songs, plus original materials which definitely adds a special touch to her show. Shonee has performed nationally and internationally doing Concerts, Theater, Television, Radio, Major Hotels, Casinos, Cruise Lines, Night Clubs, Conventions and organizational Benefits. She has performed with many famous artists, doing live performance and studio session work, besides recording her own CDs available for sale. Shonee comes from a family of entertainers. She has been an established show business personality since the age of two. She has the ability to captivate any audience, taking it from a mellow quietness and leading it to a rousing singing crowd with tears in their eyes. Excellence of showmanship and versatility highlight the abilities of this performer. She is dedicated and personable. She has class and style. Shonee is a full spectrum entertainer.
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TRACY SOMERS
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"The Best Charo
impression I have ever seen" "You're great;
the passengers loved you" "A very
versatile act" "Tracy, you are
one of the most talented entertainers our office has ever handled"
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Ann Sullivan
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You may have seen Ann Sullivan at Stan's, Ireland's Inn, Sly Fox, Hemmingway's, Frankie's, Guido Murphy's, Ocean Manor, or the Hiltons. Or perhaps on a cruise with Dolphin cruise Lines, Royal majesty, Norway, Fantasy, or Celebration. Obviously, this personable performer is in high demand. She is possessed of a wide range of musical styles, including top 40, blues, swing and country. Her engaging personality never fails to win over an audience.
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Elaine Wagman
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Elaine Wagman has appeared at major nightclubs, supper clubs, condominiums and hotels. She has appeared recently in concert with many big name stars such as Jackie mason, Vic Damone, and more. Elaine Wagman sings in more than five languages. She has delighted audiences from Miami to Las Vegas and has appeared numerous times on television. She has become the favorite of many organizations, including B’nai B’rith, City of Hope, Hadassah, Armdi, several Mason Lodges and Women’s American O.R.T. She has been the staff singer with her band at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, NY for more than 17 years at which time she left to make her move to Florida. Some of the places she has worked at include the Fontainbleu Hilton Hotel, Crown Hotel, Raleigh Hotel, Sans Souci Hotel, Eden Roc Hotel, Diplomat, Century Village, Sunrise Lakes, Hemispheres, Miami Beach Auditorium. Critics throughout the country have raved about the singing entertainer. A gifted performer---- with a superb act
intermingled with fun and comedy. Audience reaction has established Elaine
Wagman as a top favorite wherever she has performed.
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LU WHITE
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Lu is originally from New Jersey and has been singing since the age of 4. She's always had a natural flair for harmonies and at the age of 10 she started singing those harmonies in her New Jersey church choir. Since moving to Florida almost 12 years ago, she has been a cantor and music minister at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Plantation. Lu is a trained second-soprano who attributes much to her voice instructor Karen Rassler, a principal at the University Center for the Performing Arts. As a soloist at St. Gregory’s, she has sung with world class musicians including members of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Lu's voice has been compared to Connie Francis; she has won numerous contests, including the Majic 102.7 FM Super Star competition in June of 2004. First prize was a car and the privilege of opening for Frankie Valli at a Miami fundraiser. She has been a featured performer at numerous city functions for the City of Miami Lakes, including their 4th of July Celebration. She sang the National Anthem at the Broward GOP fundraiser in 2005. In October 2005 she sang with Johnny Contardo of Sha Na Na, opening for both Frankie Avalon and Joey Dee and the Starlighters at the Italian Festival in Jupiter. Lu also donates her voice to the American Cancer Society. She has been entertainment director for the Plantation Relay for Life for the last four years. She also donates time to the Broward Humane Society and Greyhound Rescue. She sings for wedding ceremonies, at condo associations, civic organizations, oldies shows, and holiday and private parties. “Lu
sings with the clarity of crystal and the freshness of a waterfall in
spring. It is sensual and sincere."
"I've had the
privilege of working with Connie Frances, and I have to tell you
something. She's got nothing on you..." "Close
your eyes and hear her sing, it's beautiful..." "Lu was a joy
to work with. Her harmonies were magnificent."
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