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iSing founder, Line Hilton, talks to award winning jazz vocalist, Anita Wardell about her career & what it takes to be a jazz singer.

ISing sat down with Anita Wardell and talked to her about her love of jazz, what it takes to be a jazz singer, the impact of winning BBC Best of Jazz and Best Vocalist Awards on her career, her love of teaching and where she thinks jazz vocals is heading in the future.

Anita Wardell is one of the UK’s most accomplished jazz singers. She is often described as a musician – because this scat artist is able to use her voice as an instrument with such precision and agility.

British born Wardell fell in love with music as at an early age, and grew up listening to Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and her father’s big band albums by Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

When she was 12 the family moved to Australia, where Anita’s musical education continued. But the pivotal moment came when she was at college in Adelaide and heard two girls performing in an adjacent room. She asked her instructor what they had been singing. They were scatting, he explained. The young Anita was instantly hooked.

With encouragement from her tutor she went about learning all she could about improvisation drawing inspiration from instrumentalists such as horn players to develop her scatting technique. Anita studied at the University of Adelaide before pursuing a career performing with the likes of James Morrison, Don Burrows and Sarah Vaughan.

She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her abilities have won her a number of awards including the BBC Jazz Award and the Best Vocalist Award at the British Jazz Awards. As well as touring Europe, Australia and the US and performing at festivals in San at San José, Edinburgh and in Finland, she also holds regular jazz master classes.

Anita is also a skilled writer and performer of Vocalese, and a sensitive interpreter of standards and jazz originals.

Read the full article: http://www.isingmag.com/scat-queen-anita-wardell/

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