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Artist
Miss Henry
2+ albums
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The power of singing started early for Miss Henry Wig, who was Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa to a Father from Bolivia, and mother of French, Swedish, German anchestors. She originally sang in church gospel then later sang as a punker in teens, influenced by Black Flag to Psychic TV and CocteauTwins to Billie Holliday in youth. She moved in her teens to Europe- originally to play with a punk Greek Bassist named Johnny Trobatos in Athens. Later, Miss Henry Wig sang Billie Holliday in the streets of Amsterdam until she met a Blues guitarist Peter Laval and sang the Blues of Big Mama Thorton and Elmore James. She then went to south of France and started focusing on jazz standards with Phil Jones. From Nice, she moved to Switzerland and started singing with Charlie Hunter in a band called the Trout or the Trout Family or various things with the Trout involved. Then back to Amsterdam, where she sang with arrangements by Calder Spanier and Gerco Arts---Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder songs among jazz standards at her gigs as well as house music to country to whatever in Europe for 9 years ...mostly jazz. She recorded in the Netherlands with Djs and Producers on a several projects, the most successful one was with FIRST CONTACT- and the song "Into The Light" became a number 3 hit in the Dance Music Charts of Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemberg.) She was featured in Orr Magazing. She performed regularly in Nice, Zurich as well as in London and