Dominique Eade is an American jazz singer and composer.
Eade is the daughter of an American Air Force officer and a Swiss mother. She grew up in a musical household which moved around frequently in the United States and Europe. She studied piano as a child and by second grade had decided she would be a singer. As a young teenager, she picked up guitar, and learned folk, pop, and jazz songs, as well as writing some songs of her own. Her first gigs...
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Dominique Eade is an American jazz singer and composer.
Eade is the daughter of an American Air Force officer and a Swiss mother. She grew up in a musical household which moved around frequently in the United States and Europe. She studied piano as a child and by second grade had decided she would be a singer. As a young teenager, she picked up guitar, and learned folk, pop, and jazz songs, as well as writing some songs of her own. Her first gigs were in coffee houses in Stuttgart, where she attended high school. She attended college at Vassar, studying English, but also sang in a jazz group, Naima, which also included Poughkeepsie native Joe McPhee. She transferred briefly to Berklee College of Music before finishing her degree at New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, where pianist Ran Blake became an important mentor and performing colleague.
Eade stayed in Boston after graduating, and began teaching at NEC. She was active in the local jazz scene in the 1980's, forming groups...
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