DEIAN McBRYDE
An award winning vocalist and producer, Deian McBryde has entertained in the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and Australia as a solo artist and with his little jazz band, The Pretty Girl Orchestra. He is an independent musician who started performing as a child in small churches in his hometown of Albuquerque. His father also played heaps of big band music at home. From these vastly different influences, Deian offers a unique blend of gospel sensibility and 1940s showmanship to jazz standards, new compositions, recovered songs and vocal improvisation. Once the only Hispanic, straight-ahead, jazz vocalist in New York City (really?), Deian received a Mable R. Dodge Fellowship at the prestigious Music Omi International Music Residency and has won two Australian Green Room Awards, an OMA Award and other awards and nominations.