Linda Solotaire

Whether you book Linda Solotaire as a soloist, duo or ensemble of any size, you can be sure of warm, friendly, experienced professionals showing up on time, prepared, dressed appropriately and ready to charm your guests.

A typical performance may start with an instrumental. Linda would follow that with a fun light opening song, introduce the band and acknowledge the hosts. The band's set can be crafted to engage the audience, or to fall back - creating an upbeat sonic backdrop for your event. For longer events the ensemble would break every 45 minute to an hour - for 10-15 minutes.

Linda is a trained actress and experienced Emcee - experienced in intimate cabaret performance - and just as comfortable in a huge stadium. Her performances have been critically acclaimed, and the musicians she chooses to work with are of the highest caliber. She is adaptable and a quick study, and will do what it takes to make your event a seamless success.

Linda Solotaire is a jazz vocalist and bandleader. She also performs an eclectic repertoire as duos with guitarist/composers Donovan Mixon, Stu Greenspan and James Cornolo.

In addition to her repertoire of classic standards, Linda has developed a Speakeasy show featuring jazz from the early 1900's, and "Dreams of You, the Sun, the Moon and Johnny Mercer" - embracing the dreamy world of one of America’s finest lyricists, Johnny Mercer. She also has a band called Songs of Love& Hate featuring Linda Solotaire-vocals, Fred Simon-keys, Dave Onderdonk-guitar, Mike Levin-reeds and Chris Bernhardt-bass & vocals. We play genre-bending originals and cover songs from some of the all-time great singer/songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and other not-as-well-known artists too. Performances include some spoken word and other performance and visual art elements.

In addition to her work as a vocal artist, Linda is bandleader, teaching artist, art maker, writer/poet and live performance producer/curator. A creative professional, she has expertise across a wide range of media, including theater, dance, sound, visual arts, digital arts, video, and other performance arts. Linda studied voice, music, dance and acting with notable teachers including, for acting, William Hickey at HB Studio in NYC, and voice with Typhanie Monique & Carol Loverde in Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago. With a background in theory, classical, and 20th-century music, Linda has enjoyed roles in musical theater, studio session work, as well as collaborations on original works with artists including, new music composers Carmen Helena Téllez, Christopher Preissing, playwright/composer Tom Weber, jazz funk band Original Balance, composer-poet Everette Howe, and others.

Linda was invited to join Actors Equity Association in 1984, and since has had principal roles in scores of theatrical and on-camera projects ranging from Christine in O’Neill’s 'Mourning Becomes Electra' to Annie in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' to commercial industrial videos and multimedia, to surreal collaborative films. She frequently works as a voice over talent as well and has performed in a variety of performance situations and venues around the world including the Lake Placid Olympic Arena, ancient Turkish ruins, and the deck of a battleship in the Mediterranean Sea.

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