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Danielle Nicole
12+ albums
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Danielle Nicole (born Danielle Nicole Schnebelen) is an American blues/soul musician from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Her self-titled solo debut EP was released March 10, 2015. Nicole was previously in the band Trampled Under Foot with her brothers Kris and Nick Schnebelen A 2014 Blues Music Award winner, there’s not a time in her life that singer/ bassist/ songwriter Nicole doesn’t remember loving to perform. As a child, she would sing for her family at holidays and took tap, jazz and ballet lessons for many years competing in numerous events. Nicole also took band in middle school, playing the tenor saxophone and enjoying it quite a bit. Unfortunately, she was forced to quit when the family moved to Kansas City and the new school did not offer band. Nicole comes from generations of singers. Her grandmother, Evelyn Skinner, was a big band singer. Nicole’s mother, Lisa Swedlund, taught her everything she knew while growing up and listening to all different kinds of music from the Everly Brothers to the B-52s. It wasn’t until she was 12 that Nicole took to the stage for the first time singing, Koko Taylor’s “Never Trust a Man” at a Blues for Schools program that her parents were playing at Englewood Elementary. From then on, she knew music would be her passion for the rest of her life. Nicole began singing in coffeehouses and at open mic events at age 14, jamming with her parents whenever she could at clubs that would allow minors. At 16, she began singing lead i
