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SONG: You Are Too Beautiful
ARTIST: Kirk Whalum
CD/ALBUM: Romance Language

“The music I like to play and write encompasses the four elements I grew up with: Memphis R&B, gospel, rock, and jazz. The emphasis, though, is on melody, period”…as quoted by Kirk Whalum in 1994. No doubt Kirk Whalum started out early with a strong music foundation supported by his family. His love for music originated from his Grandmother, a piano teacher, and his Uncles who performed with jazz bands around the country. His BIO states, in his earlier life, he was a member of the famous Texas Southern University Ocean of Soul Marching Band and sang in his father’s church choir. Kirk produced his first album in 1985 and, since then, his discography has amassed to over 25 album compilations. Fans would say that Kirk’s most rewarding period was during his 7-year venture with Singer Whitney Houston and his solo in Whitney’s top hit single “I Will Always Love You”, which is categorized as the “best-selling single” by a female artist in music history. Kirk Whalum has won 12 Grammy Nominations and did receive a Grammy Award for “Best Gospel” song “It’s What I Do”. Kirk has worked with and performed with some of the biggest R&B and jazz Artist, like Babyface, Dave Koz, and Chuck Loeb. When Kirk is not recording his own music, he’s on the road with trumpeter Rick Braun and guitarist Norman Brown to headline the jazz trio “BWB” It may interest you to know that Kirk has also worked on several movie/film scores such as “Prince of Tides”; “The Bodyguard”; and “Boyz in the Hood”, to name a few. Always ensuring that gospel is included in his music compilations, Kirk Whalum released “The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter IV” in 2014.

CD/album available on Amazon.Com: http://www.amazon.com/Romance-Language-Kirk-Whalum/dp/B006MT8U28
CD/album available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/romance-language/id489911922

For additional information about Kirk Whalum and his music, please visit the following websites:

http://www.kirkwhalum.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kirk-whalum-mn0000101795
http://www.discogs.com/artist/257119-Kirk-Whalum
https://www.facebook.com/KirkWhalum
https://twitter.com/KirkWhalum

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