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Street Sounds is an A capella musical group. Active since 1983, the band has performed live for nearly the entire span of their existence. The group has toured extensively, performing in Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Korea, Belgium and France, and coast-to-coast in the United States. A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Relying solely on singing, the band plays music varying from blues, jazz, African chants, rap R&B, doo-wop, and civil/human rights songs.


Street Sounds has toured with artists and groups such as Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Zapp Mama, Robert Cray, Joan Armatrading, John Handy, Linda Hopkins, Chick Corea, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cassandra Wilson, Pete Seeger and Chic Street Man. New Orleans-born jazz and classical artist and composer Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. ... John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933 in Dallas, Texas) is an American jazz alto saxophonist. ... Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a chorus from South Africa that is noted for singing a cappella mbube music. ...


Current Members

Michelle Jacques is an American singer, who began studying acting, modern dance, tap, ballet and violin, beginning at the early age of seven. ...

Former members

  • Steven Thomas
  • Bobby Williams
  • Otieno Vumapile
  • Naomi
  • Darlene I. Spears

Discography

  • Street Sounds (1994)
  • Night Flight (1998)

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Ruavista - Street Sounds (91 words)
Produced on the occasion of TV5 special broadcast, the "Cités du Monde" interactive postcards are an invitation to discover major capitals, misturing tourism and humanism.
In the program: a 24 hours city visit, portraits, video reports, sounds atmosphere, cartoons, panoramic photos, photo galleries and a general survey of the music scene.
All the sounds and pictures are copyright Claude Vittiglio/ TV5.
Street Sounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (139 words)
Street Sounds is an A capella musical group.
Active since 1983, the band has performed live for nearly the entire span of their existence.
Street Sounds has toured with artists and groups such as Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Zapp Mama, Robert Cray, Joan Armatrading, John Handy, Linda Hopkins, Chick Corea, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cassandra Wilson, Pete Seeger and Chic Street Man.
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