Hope Deans Brings Nostalgia to the World of Jazz Music

Nov. 3, 2008 - PRLog -- "I just want to move and groove when singing 'cause the body just wants to dance!"

Hope Deans started singing at a young age in the AME Baptist Church and enjoys celebrating the spirit of gospel music. She applies it to her style of singing to allow the crowd to feel her song. She brings a style that is sultry, classy, yet jazzy which makes her an exciting performer to watch on stage. Hope studied Theatre Arts at Cal Poly College and sang in the school choir, but it was her love of the music class "Jazz Appreciation" with Professor James Benson that peaked her interest in jazz and blues. She studied music of the legendary greats like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, B.B. King, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and later Roberta Flack, Phyllis Hyman, Janis Joplin and Natalie Cole to name a few and thought , this is what she envisions doing, what she wants, singing, seriously and professionally.

And the  musical journey begins.

Hope started off working with other local musicians playing around town and sitting in on jam sessions when possible. Founding her first band, "Doubletake" and just before she knew it, she was performing and making the rounds in a number of clubs and venues in California.

Her musical resume included a memorable performance aboard the Queen Mary, The Legendary Blue Guitar in Palm Springs and as a guest performer at the Mrs. California International Pageant.


Hope has sat in with many different musicians and pianists throughout Los Angeles and the Orange County area and has even had the pleasure (ironically) of singing a song accompanied by the master pianist for Ms. Nancy Wilson, Mr. Llew Matthews. She was once told by her jazz vocal coach to be more laid back like Ms. "Fancy" Nancy Wilson, but Hope is more of a sassy kind of performer who says she needs to "move and groove when singing 'cause the body just wants to dance!"

In her travels to other countries over the years, Hope would involve herself in the local jam nights in a groovin jazz joint as part of her vacation time. (She would find audiences groovin to her style of songs like Al Green's "Lets Stay Together" or Etta James' "At Last.") Yet Hope continues to perform her blues repertoire with the "Lady Sings The Blues" Collection and is looking forward to getting in the studio to arrange a demo with other songs she enjoys by Phyllis, Roberta, and other divas of the world. Hope can also get real funky with Jazz and R&B tunes like "Dance To The Music" "Do Nothin Till You Hear From Me", "Never Too Much", "What's Goin On" and a very jazzy "Summer Time".

Hope is considering the theatre, which was her minor in college, to expand her performance skills. It is her desire to sing songs that were great to listen to in the 60's, 70's, and 80's and bring a little remix of her favorite old standards to today's sophisticated music lovers.

Although California is home, Hope is currently living in Atlanta, GA where she is quickly becoming a hot new artist on the scene. She has performed a Christmas concert "Hope for the Holidays," which was a fundraiser for PAPY (Performing Arts Program for Youth) under the direction of Hilda Willis of Living Your Art. She has also had the pleasure of performing in another concert honoring the ladies of jazz with a tribute to Billie Holiday and Cassandra Wilson, and she is always jammin' around town with some great musicians.

Hope is really getting a feel for that East Coast style and flavor in music and living however she plans to perform wherever her journey takes her as long as she can continue to "wow" folks with her jazzy attire and jazzy style of singing. Hope has recently been added as one of the preferred vendors at the Defoor Center, a special event facility in Atlanta.

Hope Deans is available for club dates, private parties, tours and session work.

Booking Information:
CSB Management Group, LLC,
Charlene S. Bowden,
Telephone: 678-438-4851
Email: csbmanagement@yahoo.com

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