Xandra Willis - To Be With You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:32
Size: 113,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:23)  1. My Shining Hour
(4:28)  2. We'll Be Together Again
(3:38)  3. To Be With You
(5:15)  4. As Time Goes By
(4:03)  5. It's All Right With Me
(6:48)  6. Whenever He Comes By
(4:22)  7. That Day
(3:11)  8. I Mean You
(5:08)  9. There Will Never Be Another You
(4:28) 10. In a Mellow Tone
(2:54) 11. My Love Is as a Fever
(2:49) 12. Solitude

Xandra was born in 1972 in Capelle aan den IJssel , where she grew up in a musical family . The love of music is in her genes so it is not surprising that Xandra after highschool opted for the " singing light music " at the Rotterdam Conservatory . In the years that she studied there she was taught by Coco York , Laura de Bekker , Jan Heije and Peggy Larson . Her IVTS technique lessons she got from Alberto ter Doest and Harjo Pasveer . Improvisation classes she attended at Wies Ingwersen . That those lessons of great value have been proved in 1997 when Xandra won the Erasmus Jazz price . The price is awarded to the best jazz student at the Rotterdam Conservatory annually. Then a year later she graduated Cum Laude in 1998 she received in the same year also the Esso price .

After graduating Xandra was guest lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory where she to this day is involved as include external expert in singing exams . In addition to her work at the Conservatory has Xandra with various formations in the soul, gospel and pop genre occurred over the world . So they came in response to her first CD called " To Be With You " (2005 ) with various orchestras in Moscow , St. Petersburg , Switzerland , France , Luxembourg and Germany . With her own band she was on the best stages of Netherlands De Doelen and including the North Sea Jazz Festival . Xandra has occurred with the big names in the music world as Michiel Borstlap , Ed Verhoeff , Bart van Lier , Rob Kreeveld and the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra .

With the Amsterdam gospel formation Loud and Proud Xandra still occurs with great regularity at various events . Xandra moved in 2008 to Ridderkerk - Rijsoord where the possibility of bringing home to create a beautiful singing workshop . Besides the pop chancels that Xandra directs and workshops she gives throughout the country , it opened the doors of her Singing Workshop in 2008. Here are individual , dual and group lessons given to amateurs and professionals. In 2009 Xandra and her husband Dirk became proud parents of son Luuk . And who knows , he has been with the same musical genes ..... ! 

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To Be With You

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