Singing pianist available for events, weddings, and parties: I have over 300 songs in my repertoire spanning several genres and decades, I take requests, and I provide all of my own equipment. Reasonable rates for top-quality piano entertainment! I also DJ, and I have extensive options for lighting and sound.
4 reviews
Lonnie S.
August 30, 2024We had a small crowd, but Chris’s enthusiasm for his craft and talent made it truly special. Can’t wait to have him back.
Hired as: Singing Pianist
Aaron H.
February 4, 2024Chris is an outstanding performer, performing a variety of music. We had several guests complement his music and performances throughout the evening. He showed early to set up and is well prepared. He adapts to the environment wonderfully. You won’t go wrong with this gentleman.
Hired as: Keyboard Player, Singing Pianist
Tara H.
July 22, 2023Beforehand, I was admittedly a bit worried about the performance coming across as a little cheesy, but Chris was fantastic and my concerns were unfounded. His communication ahead of time was great, and the crowd loved him. He took requests, which was a bonus, and his laid back style, personable style was the perfect fit for our event. He’s got a great voice, is a talented pianist, and I highly recommend him.
Hired as: Keyboard Player, Singing Pianist
Pascale P.
May 30, 2023Chris was amazing! He sings so well and everyone at the party really enjoyed him and asked for his card. Can't wait to use him again!!!
Hired as: Keyboard Player, Singing Pianist
Price range: $100-$5000
Languages: English, Spanish
Gig length: 30 - 240 minutes
For a more low-key event, you would generally see me in the corner, or off to the side near the bar, set up with my speaker, playing lots of hits in ways you wouldn't generally expect. My voice is clear and commanding, but for this environment I'd keep everything as subtle as possible, while still injecting upbeat pop and rock to keep things lively. This is designed mainly for social gatherings, where atmosphere is needed, but nobody wants to be shouting over the music.
For a high-energy show, it's more like what you would get in a dueling pianos show. I'm usually up on a stage, or featured prominently in the room, and I have sound activated lighting. I take requests from the audience, and encourage them to sing along. I make jokes (nothing off-color) and I don't hold back in showcasing my voice and piano skills. This is designed for main entertainment, where people want something to watch and interact with.
For weddings, I work together with my fiancee Jessica to create fully customizable entertainment, officiating, sound, lighting, and personal attendant services throughout the day. We’re capable of creating any setting you like, with an all-inclusive flat rate.
Hi, I'm Chris Powell!
I've been playing piano and singing almost my whole life, and I have over 300 crowd-pleasing songs in my repertoire from a wide selection of decades and genres.
I'm affordable, likable, I provide my own equipment, and I'm capable of providing both low-key background entertainment for a relaxed ambience that won’t overpower conversation, as well as high-energy foreground entertainment that engages your crowd.
I've played formal and informal events all over Des Moines, IA and Chicago, IL, but I range all over the Midwest, with shows in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan under my belt so far.
If you're looking for top-notch piano and singing entertainment, look no further!
I also have 15 years experience doing wedding entertainment, please ask me about customizable wedding packages including live entertainment, DJing, lighting, and personal attendant services!
I have no requirements for lighting, staging and sound other than what you provide. If your venue would like to provide my sound equipment, all I require is a microphone/boom stand, and 2 direct boxes to hook my keyboard setup into. I always bring my own lighting, but the venue is more than welcome to supplement it.
Thursday
Cocktail Party
8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Burlington, IA
Saturday
Dinner Party
5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Indianola, IA
Thursday
Nonprofit Event
6:00pm - 9:00pm
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Des Moines, IA
Saturday
Graduation
6:00pm - 9:00pm
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Ankeny, IA
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Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Adele - Someone Like You
AJR - 100 Bad Days
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Alex Newell, Jess Glynn, DJ Cassidy - Kill the Lights
Alicia Keys - If I Ain’t Got You
Andy Grammer - Fine By Me
Andy Grammer - Fresh Eyes
Andy Grammer - Honey I’m Good
Andy Grammer - Keep Your Head Up
Animals/Various - House of the Rising Sun
Avicii - The Nights
Avicii - Wake Me Up ft. Aloe Blacc
Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
Beatles - Back in the USSR
Beatles - Blackbird
Beatles - Get Back
Beatles - Hey Jude
Beatles - Let it Be
Beatles - Yesterday
Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses
Billy Joel - Always a Woman
Billy Joel - Big Shot
Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are
Billy Joel - Miami 2017
Billy Joel - My Life
Billy Joel - New York State of Mind
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Vienna
Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll
Boxtops - The Letter
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love?
Biz Markie - Just a Friend
Blink-182 - All the Small Things
Blink-182 - The Rock Show
Blink-182 - What’s My Age Again
Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
BØRNS - Electric Love
Bruce Hornsby - The Way it Is
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Bruno Mars - Lazy Song
Bruno Mars - Finesse
Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like
Bruno Mars - Treasure
Bruno Mars (Mark Ronson really) - Uptown Funk
Calum Scott - You Are the Reason
Cage the Elephant - Ain’t No Rest
Cee-Lo Green - Forget You
Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - Closer
Chainsmokers - Paris
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
Cleanbandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynn
Colin Hay/Men at Work - Overkill
Commodores - Easy Like Sunday Morning
Dan + Shay - 10,000 Hours
Dan + Shay - Glad You Exist
Dan + Shay - Tequila
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
DNCE - Cake by the Ocean
Don McLean - American Pie
Drake White - Makin’ Me Look Good Again
Dua Lipa and Elton John - Cold Heart
Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now
Dua Lipa - Levitating
Dylan Brady - Fallin’
Eagles - Hotel California
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Earth Wind and Fire - September
Ed Sheeran - I Don’t Care
Ed Sheeran - Perfect
Ed Sheeran - The Shape of You
Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran - Shivers
Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Elton John - Border Song
Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Elton John - Rocket Man
Elton John - Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Elton John - The Bitch is Back
Elton John - Your Song
Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Elvis Presley - Burnin’ Love
Elvis Presley - I Can’t Help Falling in Love
Enrique Iglesias - Hero
Eric Clapton - Change the World
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Fall Out Boy - Chicago is so Two Years Ago
Fall Out Boy - Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes
Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the Memories
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Going Down
Fitz and the Tantrums - Handclap
Fitz and the Tantrums - I Just Wanna Shine
Five for Fighting - 100 Years
Flobots - Handlebars
Florida Georgia Line - Cruise
Florida Georgia Line - This is How We Roll
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Foo Fighters - Home
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
Four Tops - Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)
Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Frankie Valli - December 1963 (Oh What a Night)
Frank Sinatra - Chicago
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
Frank Sinatra - I Won’t Dance
Frank Sinatra - Mack the Knife
Fun! - Some Nights
Fun! - We Are Young
Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places
George Michael - Faith
Gershwins/Various - Summertime
Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kinda Wonderful
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day - Holiday
Green Day - Time of Your Life
Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts
Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams
Hall and Oates - Rich Girl
Harry Styles - As it Was
Harry Styles - Late Night Talking
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight, Tonight
Isley Brothers - Shout!
Jay Geils - Centerfold
Jack Johnson - Better Together
Jack Johnson - Steal My Kisses
Jack Harlow - First Class
Jackson 5 - ABC
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
James Arthur - Lasting Lover
James Arthur - Say You Won’t
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
James Taylor - How Sweet it Is
James Taylor - You’ve Got a Friend
Jason Mraz - I Won’t Give Up
Jason Mraz - I’m Yours
Jason Mraz - The Remedy
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Joel Corry and MNEK - Head and Heart
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Legend - All of Me
John Legend - Ordinary People
John Legend - Save Room
John Lennon - Imagine
John Mayer - Daughters
John Mayer - Gravity
John Mayer - Love on the Weekend
John Mayer Trio - Waitin' on the World to Change
John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
Jonas Brothers - Sucker
Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt
Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up
Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
Journey - Faithfully
Justin Bieber - Holy
Justin Bieber - Hold On
Justin Bieber - Love Yourself
Justin Bieber - Peaches
Justin Bieber - Sorry
Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop the Feeling!
Justin Timberlake - Suit and Tie
JVKE - Golden Hour
Katy Perry - California Girls
Katy Perry - Firework
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Killers - Mr. Brightside
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight
Kool and the Gang - Get Down on It
Kygo - Undeniable
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Lady Gaga - Million Reasons
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Leonard Cohen/Various - Hallelujah
Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
Lizzo - About Damn Time
Lizzo - Good as Hell
Looking Glass - Brandy
Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
Lou Rawls - You’ll Never Find
Lorde - Royals
Lukas Graham - Seven Years Old
Luke Combs - Beautiful Crazy
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Maneskin - Beggin’
Macklemore - Can’t Hold Us
Macklemore - Thrift Shop
Marc Cohn - Walkin’ in Memphis
Maroon 5 - Memories
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Maroon 5 - Sugar
Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Maroon 5 - This Love
Marshmello - Happier
Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get it On
Masked Wolf - Astronaut in the Ocean
Men at Work/Colin Hay - Overkill
Michael Buble - Everything
Michael Buble - Haven’t Met You Yet
Michael Buble - Home
Michael Buble - Save the Last Dance for Me
Michael Buble - That’s All
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Say Hey
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
Michel LeGrand - I Will Wait For You
Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
Morgan Wallen - Last Night
Morgan Wallen - You Proof
Mumford and Sons - I Will Wait for You
Mumford and Sons - The Cave
N’Sync - Bye Bye Bye
Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E
Nat King Cole/Various - Nature Boy
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
Neon Trees - Animals
Neyo - Because of You
Neyo - So Sick
Niall Horan - Black and White
Niall Horan - Slow Hands
Nina Simone/Michael Buble/Various - Feelin’ Good
Oasis - Wonderwall
Old Crowe Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
One Republic - Counting Stars
Otis Redding - Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
OutKast - Hey Ya!
Owl City - Fireflies
Passion Pit - Carried Away
Peter Gabriel - Book of Love
Pharrell - Happy
Philip Philips - Gone Gone Gone
Philip Philips - Home
Pitbull - Fireball
Portugal, the Man - Feel it Still
Post Malone - Circles
Post Malone - Psycho/Sunflower
Prince - Let’s Go Crazy
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Proclaimers - 500 miles
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
Queen - Fat Bottom Girls
Queen - Somebody to Love
Rascal Flatts - Life is a Highway
Rascal Flatts - My Wish
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Rick Springfield - Jesse’s Girl
Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
Rob Thomas - Smooth
Robin Schulz - Sugar
Rolling Stones - I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Script - Breakeven
Script - Man Who Can’t Be Moved
Semisonic - Closing Time
Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me
Shawn Mendes - If I Can’t Have You
Shawn Mendes - Nothing Holding Me Back
Shawn Mendes - Stitches
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Smash Mouth - All Star
The Spinners - I’ll be Around
Sublime - Santeria
Sublime - What I Got
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Stevie Wonder - Isn’t She Lovely
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Styx - Come Sail Away
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Temptations - My Girl
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Tiësto - The Business
Tina Turner - Proud Mary
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Tones and I - Dance Monkey
Toto - Africa
Toto - Hold the Line
Tom Petty - American Girl
Tom Petty - Free Fallin
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Uncle Kracker - Driftaway
Uncle Kracker - Smile
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison/Michael Buble/Various - Crazy Love
Vanessa Carlton - 1000 Miles
Various - Cheek to Cheek
Various - I Could Write a Book
Various - I’m Old Fashioned
Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance
Weeknd - Blinding Lights
Weeknd - I Can’t Feel My Face
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried
Zac Brown Band - Colder Weather
Zedd - The Middle
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No required equipment!
Singing Pianist
