Michelle Rounds Explained

Michelle Rounds
Birth Date:29 April 1962
Birth Place:Sydney
Occupation:Singer-songwriter
Years Active:1990–present
Label:Cumquat, Mangrove, PI Inc.

Michelle Rounds (29 April 1962) is a jazz singer, songwriter, and teacher from Australia.

Early life

The eldest daughter of five children, Rounds was born in Sydney, Australia. Her father was an architect who sang and played guitar. Her grandmother sang, played several instruments, and was in the first all female band in Suva, Fiji in the early 1940s.[1] Her family moved to Fiji when she was 11.

Career

Rounds is a scat singer who has released several albums[2] and is a supporter of using native language and dialect. On Let Me See Now in 2005 she collaborated with the Japanese band Steal & Shorty.[3] In 2014 she released Time & Space, recorded with Egyptian Lil.garhy, who raps in Arabic and at the time of recording was 17 years old. In 1998 she won a Te Reo Award from TVNZ for her version of the Fijian "Era Bini Tu". This award is given to people who use indigenous languages in their music.

She regularly works with Nabil Khemir, Cesar Mora, and in the Australasia region with Tom Mawi.[4]

She has been performing in Cairo, Egypt since 2009[5] and has performed at the Cairo Opera House, Kempinski Nile Hotel,[6] El Sawy Culturewheel,[7] and is a regular performer at Cairo Jazz Club.[8] In 2014, she began giving vocal training to Egyptian children and adults. Michelle is represented and managed by Sulu Daunivalu her music is available on Spotify

Awards

Discography

Notes and References

  1. News: Chaudhary . Felix . Music was the norm . 21 July 2015 . The Fiji Times Online . 2014 . 2.
  2. Web site: Discography. Michelle Rounds. 21 July 2015 . 8 .
  3. Web site: Let Me See Now . You Tube . 21 July 2015 . 9.
  4. Book: Finnegan . Ruth . Music Reflections . 311 . 21 July 2015. 3.
  5. Web site: Bainimarama . Rear Admiral J.V. . Speech at the Fiji Performing Rights Association Music Awards 2014 . The Fijian Government . 21 July 2015 . 4 .
  6. News: Diack . Hilary . Jazzing Cairo Up: Michelle Rounds at Kempinski Nile Hotel's Jazz Bar . 21 July 2015 . Cairo West . 2012 . 5 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141211145704/http://www.cairowestmag.com/jazzing-cairo-up-michelle-rounds-at-kempinski-nile-hotels-jazz-bar/ . 11 December 2014 .
  7. News: Amro Salah Jazz Trio ft Michelle Rounds . 21 July 2015 . Cairo Scene . 2013. 10 .
  8. Web site: Cairo Jazz Club . Cairo Jazz Club . 22 July 2015 . 11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083630/http://cairojazzclub.com/schedule/michelle-rounds-17 . 4 March 2016 . dead .
  9. Book: The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002. 2002. Psychology Press . 441 . 21 July 2015 . 8.

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