American jazz recording artist Amber Weekes has given the world a special and unique gift: her voice. Her producer Mark Cargill described it as a voice from Heaven, and hears harps, violins, trumpets on a cloud of velvet whenever she begins to sing.Weekes is rising to the pinnacle of her career with the upcoming 2024 release of A Lady with a Song Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson, an homage to the legendary jazz singer and fellow storyteller. Weekes, raised in Los Angeles, says she was born singing in her parentsmusical household. At four, she stepped onto her first stage, the living room coffee table in her childhood home...
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American jazz recording artist Amber Weekes has given the world a special and unique gift: her voice. Her producer Mark Cargill described it as a voice from Heaven, and hears harps, violins, trumpets on a cloud of velvet whenever she begins to sing.Weekes is rising to the pinnacle of her career with the upcoming 2024 release of A Lady with a Song Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson, an homage to the legendary jazz singer and fellow storyteller. Weekes, raised in Los Angeles, says she was born singing in her parentsmusical household. At four, she stepped onto her first stage, the living room coffee table in her childhood home. The daughter of singers from Harlem, Weekes home oozed with the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Streisand, Diahann Carroll, The Beatles, Leontyne Price, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Brown, Jr., and Ray Charles. Generations earlier, her grandparents, Wilfred and Nettie Weekes, served musical giants Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Billy Strahorn and many others inside Weekes Luncheonette in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. These famous patrons left their musical mark on the family. It was just a matter of time that Weekes would step into and fully claim her musical inheritance.Out of her New York roots came a desire to tell stories through song. Inside her was a strong desire to perpetuate her fathers memories of Sugar Hill as that magical place in Harlem where his parents reigned as king and queen of that beloved community diner. Her love for her father inspired Round Midnight Re-imagined, a fully remixed, remastered and reorchestrated version of her first album produced in 2002. Cargill created just the right musical arrangement for Weekes vocal prowess. The Midwest Records Chris Spector says its killer stuff.Weekes brings respect for the history of each song she selects to perform. She has studied music extensively, and brings her naturally good diction and intonation. Amber brings all of those attributes and more, says Cargill. As a Jazz vocalist, its very important to have talent, tell the story, and have great presentation and understanding of the craft. At 14, Weekes received several voice lessons from opera singer Gwendolyn Wyatt, but her parents could not afford to continue with them so her father encouraged her to join the churchs adult choir to use her voice.
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