Soul-Jazz Artist Yolanda Rabin Releases Debut CD, “So Real” | Available Now!
Listen to the Sounds of Contemporary Soul-Jazz Artist Yolanda Rabin, as She Releases Debut Album, “So Real” | Available NOW!
Singing soulfully with power and a natural story-telling instinct while imitating Gladys Knight at the age of four, Yolanda Rabun stunned and transformed everyone who heard her. Without a doubt, Yolanda Rabun
was destined to touch the hearts of many audiences with her exuberant
personality and voice. In 2011, she releases her first solo project, So Real.
Yolanda
Rabun is a graduate of the acclaimed Northside School of the Arts in
Atlanta, Georgia, where she performed with Atlanta’s Showbiz Kids
touring throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Yolanda studied
under the greats including the late Isaac Hayes for a special rendition
of God Bless America which Yolanda sang to the late and former United
States President, Ronald Reagan.
Raised by a single mother
who stressed education as a priority, Yolanda finished Holy Cross
College with an Honors B.A. degree and earned a JD from Boston College
Law School where she continued to do stage plays and sing with acapella
groups to develop a 3 octave range that crosses genres with power and
ease.
Yolanda was a backup vocalist for R&B singer,
Howard Hewitt, pop singer and American Idol Season 2 finalist, Clay
Aiken and North Carolina-based piano man Adrian Duke. Yolanda also has
written original jazz compositions for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and
is an award winning actress in North Carolina’s Regional Theatres.
The
last 4 years, Yolanda has been the lead vocalist of the Stanley Baird
Group, a smooth jazz group led by renowned saxophonist, Stanley Baird.
She appears on Stanley’s Baird’s seventh project, Traffic Jam with the
smooth jazz single, “I Want 2 Love You” which received international
radio-play and ranked in Solar Radio’s year end Top 10 List .
Yolanda Rabun
is the total creative and professional package being a composer,
writer, producer, professional actor, speaker and an award-winning
corporate attorney. Yolanda’s music background is diverse; she sings
musical theatre, jazz, R & B, soul, classical, country, spiritual,
folk and gospel. Through the innate ability to transform her stories in
so many different styles, Yolanda’s unique powerful voice will be
considered one of the great cross-over jazz artists of our decade and
thrill audiences.
Yolanda Rabun’s first single, So Real, from the upcoming So Real project is her original work and is a glimpse of the phrasing and style she has become known for in the jazz world.
