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Anna Acevedo Lyman

Exquisite World Class Vocals: "I am a Latinamerican Jazz Vocalist from Motown"

Anna Acevedo Lyman sings in English & Spanish, and Portuguese, (also speaks Spanish, and some Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to the Brazilian relatives! ), and was born in Detroit, and lives on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

Anna's new compositions fuse together Jazz, Latin, and the Motown sensibilities she grew up with. Her original songs are written in both Spanish and English in almost every track. Her CD "Sway - Quien Sera" (2008), features 5 of Anna's fusion creations, the Title track "Sway", by Pablo Ruiz Beltran, in Span. & Eng., and 3 Brazilian tracks in Portuguese (2 of them also in English). Anna is a Latin lover of rhythm but likes to blur genre boundaries experiments with her evolving new sound.

"A voice like honey, songs like wine, ...a colorful bloom in today's music wasteland... It's a breath of fresh air..." Stephen Wortman, Rutgers Newark Observer, N.J.

"She has a voice like melted chocolate", Goody Niosi: The Harbour City Star, Nanaimo, BC

"Sensual, melodious...makes us think we should order champagne...." Jan DeGrass, The Coast Reporter

"Anna Lyman is a genuine jazz singer", Richard Bourcier, JAZZ REVIEW.COM

...this passionate and sophisticated jazz veteran is one of the most versatile singers on the circuit today. (Victoria International Jazzfest)

"Lyman has a powerful voice with a genuine passion that shines through on every note...a distinctly personal perspective"Alexandria Stuart, The Harbour City Star, Nanaimo, BC

"It's Lush - a valuable musical keepsake" "Plays like a live jazz set" "Put on this CD and you will swing..." (Gregory J. Robb Vancouver Vibe, Allaboutjazz.com)

Awards

1. Vancouver Ukulele Festival, Ruby's Uke's Cover Song Competition winner-Jazzalele, 2012 for "Blue Monk" arrangement and performance 2. Music Festival trophy, and first place, Cariboo Music Festival

Gear

TASCAM, EPIPHONE, SHURE, MARTIN, YAMAHA

Anna Lyman: It's Lush

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2003

Beginning with Brent and Dennis’s “Angel Eyes,” Anna Lyman relives tradition in modernity. If that animation causes discomfort, it is due to the degree that we have shrugged off the jazz vocal traditions that make It’s Lush a valuable musical keepsake.

Lyman’s first achievement in this record is not vocal supremacy; it is the recognition that jazz vocals belong in the context of other musical players – a fact that is beautifully acknowledged in the first five of ...

Event

Bluenote-Latin-Jazz CD Release by Anna Acevedo Lyman at Hermann's, Victoria, BC, Canada

Source: All About Jazz
October 4, 2008

Mexicanamerican Latin-Jazz Vocalist, Anna Acevedo Lyman will be performing selections from her new Latin-Jazz CD “Sway - Quien Sera" at 7:30 pm, Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria, BC, 753 View St. A feature of her composition style is the addition of Bluenote's and Blues progressions to Latin Jazz for a distinctly personal sound. She writes Swing, Latin-Jazz, and being resistant to genre boundaries, crosses them freely and happily! PERSONNEL FOR THE CONCERT: Piano: Darcy Phillips Trumpet: Greg Bush
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"...a colorful bloom in today's music wasteland. It's a breath of fresh air..." Rutgers Newark Observer,
N.J.

"She has a voice like melted chocolate" Goody Niosi: The Harbour City Star, Nanaimo, BC

"Sensual, melodious...makes us think we should order champagne...." Jan DeGrass, The Coast Reporter

"Anna Lyman is a genuine jazz singer", Richard Bourcier, JAZZ REVIEW.COM

"Lyman has a powerful voice with a genuine passion that shines through on every note...a distinctly personal perspective"Alexandria Stuart, The Harbour City Star, Nanaimo, BC

Primary Instrument

Vocals

Location

Victoria

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

WILL TEACH ALL LEVELS... Has a BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN JAZZ VOICE with a MINOR IN GUITAR, from Vancouver Island University, www.viu.ca, (formerly Malaspina University College) Anna also taught a guitar and voice accompaniment course at Okanagan University College for 8 years. Now teaching and performing with ukulele, certified by Master Instructor, Kimo Hussey. Email for current rates. Enjoys teaching Jazz, Latin, R&B, Funk, Blues, Country, Pop and Rock, Alternative (has sung all these commercially for pay). Does not teach Classical, but enjoys teaching light Opera.
Will teach you how to write and notate your own song!