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Artist
Juliet Green
7+ albums
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From the Artist's website: Originally from Maui, Hawaii, Juliet Green has been a singer in the Bay Area since 1991. She moved to the mainland from the Valley Isle to study music at the University of the Pacific, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. There, she studied classical voice with William Whitesides and choral conducting with Dr. William Dehning. Though most of her training was in the classical and musical theater tradition, she always had a foundation in jazz and knew she would eventually return to it. In 1991, Juliet moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she began teaching music in the Portola Valley School District. She began singing in various college vocal jazz ensembles, including Foothill’s Fanfairs and De Anza’s Vocal Flight. It was at De Anza that she met Dave Duran and Paul Cingolani, and with them founded the award-winning a cappella group +4db. With these ensembles, she had the opportunity to tour and perform in Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, France, Germany, and Japan. With the disbanding of +4db in 2001, Juliet began working on solo and small ensemble material. She continued to sing with Cingolani and Duran under the name “Vocalese Inc.”, and began exploring the art of vocalese. However, it wasn’t until meeting and studying with Laurie Antonioli at Berkeley’s Jazzschool that she really started writing lyrics seriously. Her debut CD, “Simple”, featuring many of her original lyrics, was released in late 2003. Currently, Julie
