The California Jazz Conservatory Presents Kyra Gordon "Soul Of A Showgirl" Album Release Concert at Rendon Hall

Some albums serve as a snapshot, capturing a musician at a particular moment in time. Berkeley vocalist, songwriter and piano/keyboardist Kyra Gordon’s Soul of a Show Girl is more like an Aaron Sorkin screenplay, with a series of sharply etched scenes distilled from a life that’s wended from Hollywood to Paris to the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.

The music flows from the vicissitudes of her footloose life, glinting with insights she’s gleaned along the way. Possessing a rich, multi-hued voice, she's equally attuned to wry humor, headlong passion, bountiful gratitude and abject longing. Slated for release on April 22, 2022, Soul of a Show Girl is Gordon’s first album featuring her original material, and it introduces a songwriter with an outsized gift for setting emotionally incisive lyrics to beguiling melodic hooks. Join us for the album release concert, and a fantastic night of songs ranging from humorous to heartfelt....

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Some albums serve as a snapshot, capturing a musician at a particular moment in time. Berkeley vocalist, songwriter and piano/keyboardist Kyra Gordon’s Soul of a Show Girl is more like an Aaron Sorkin screenplay, with a series of sharply etched scenes distilled from a life that’s wended from Hollywood to Paris to the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.

The music flows from the vicissitudes of her footloose life, glinting with insights she’s gleaned along the way. Possessing a rich, multi-hued voice, she's equally attuned to wry humor, headlong passion, bountiful gratitude and abject longing. Slated for release on April 22, 2022, Soul of a Show Girl is Gordon’s first album featuring her original material, and it introduces a songwriter with an outsized gift for setting emotionally incisive lyrics to beguiling melodic hooks. Join us for the album release concert, and a fantastic night of songs ranging from humorous to heartfelt.

Kyra Gordon is a vocalist and songwriter known for her soulful tone and captivating stage-presence. As a founding member of the improvised Bay Area hip-hop collective “The Freeze” she thrilled audiences with her powerful and often hilarious vocals. Gordon has been a local favorite through her residency at San Francisco’s ‘The Rite Spot’ over the last six years and has performed in cities all over the country including in Cincinnati, LA, Las Vegas, Boulder, Burlington, Brooklyn, Austin, Tucson, Iowa City, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Ithaca, as well as internationally in Paris, France.

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