Diunna Greenleaf

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See Also: http://www.last.fm/music/Diunna%2BGreenleaf%2B%2526%2BBlue%2BMercy Diunna Greenleaf, the leader of Blue Mercy, is a native Texan (Houston) who has a background steeped in gospel music. Influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Thorpe, Sam Cooke, Charles Brown and her own parents Ben & Mary Ella Greenleaf (Gospel). She has developed "Diunna's style of Blues" in the same tradition as so many other great Texas blues men and women. She combines intricate patches of jazz, gospel and heartfelt soul to create a kind of blues that takes one on an emotional roller coaster ride. Diunna and her band Blue Mercy have performed throughout the United States and Internationally. She has performed at the Lugano Blues Festival and the Bern Jazz Festival, both in Switzerland, as well as the Cahors Blues Festival in France. For the 2009 season, Diunna is slated to do festivals in Norway, Canada, Australia, England, Italy, France, Virgin Islands and a return trip to Switzerland, as well as other performances throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Diunna has opened for and performed with the likes of Bob Margolin, Keb Mo, Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, James Cotton, Carrie Bell, Big Bill Morganfield, Smoking Joe Kubek and B’Nois King, Anson Funderburge, Sam Meyers and the Rockets, Bernard Allison, Odetta, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, I.J. Gosey, Sherman Robertson, Kenny Neal, the late great Teddy “Cry Cry” Reynold

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Trying to Hold On

I Ain't Playin'

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Akella presents - women's blues vol.5 cd2 new!

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Rollin' with the Blues Boss

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Cotton Field to Coffee House

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Lucerne Blues Festival 2006

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The Piazza Blues Bellinzona Retrospective 1999 - 2006

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Diamond To Dust: Blues Collection

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Piazza Blues Bellinzona

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Cotton Field of Coffee House

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Black & White (FisherAbel Blues Style)

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"Crazy" But Live In Houston

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