I play private parties, cocktail Lounges, the finest hotels, cruise ships, your favorite restaurant, Weddings or any occasion worth having "live" music. Instrumental, solo, duo, trio, quartet
Piano, Keyboard, Accordion, vocals
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1)Sami has been playing solo at the Gaslight Club @Hilton Ohare for 15 years. Mondays and Tuesdays
Mondays and Tuesdays. It is a hotel restaurant and bar, where she takes requests, or quietly plays
background while business people chat.
acoustic piano with vocals
2)Hugo's Frog Bar on Sunday nights 6 to 10pm Instrumental variety of music.
She has played here since the 90's, off and on. Sami has been here for 8 years once a week for the past 7 years.
3)on my website (link hidden) is a calendar listing all my special events, whether it be all country all night w Sami and a steel guitar player.
4) with the Swingin Sisters, where she accompanies 3 singers in 3 part Harmony.
5)or if she is with her band Cloud Nine. They play a mix of pop, Motown, jazz and blues.
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Sami has played professionally since she was 10 years old in a band with her sister and school friends in St. Louis, MO called “Brothers, Sisters, and Me”. Later she started her own trio where at 23 she was contracted by Splendid Music in France to tour for one year opening for Michele Simonet and recording her first single “Choo Choo Train”.
She returned to the states and relocated in San Francisco where she played at the prestigious Mark Hopkins Hotel and in Reno at Harrah’s Casino as well as performances at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
She toured the world with 5-star cruise line Royal Viking as a solo performer and singer. She performed extended pianobar engagements in Japan, France, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. She returned to the Midwest and settled in Chicago. She opened for Ike Cole at the famous Pump Room for 2 years, spent 11 years at the Drake hotel Coq D’or, and decade long run at Carmine’s Restaurant on Rush St just to mention a few.
She was chosen for the Canfield 50/50 thirst quencher jingle, and you can hear her voice on a number of in house radio promos for St. John’s Hospital.
In addition to being a song writer with several CD’s Sami is also a teaching artist since 2015 at the esteemed Old Town School of Folk Music. She has recorded several CD’s of her original music which are available for purchase on (link hidden)
You can currently find Sami performing in and around Chicago.
as a solo musician I only need a piano that is in tune, or space about 4 x8 for me and my full 88note keyboard
if you hire one of my groups we will discuss space and sound requirements.
Singing Pianist
