SOLD OUT - An Evening with Cleveland Watkiss, Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars Tuesday 16th February

“Best male jazz singer in Britain”… Evening Standard

“The Sonny Rollins Of The Human Voice”… TimeOut

Cleveland Watkiss is a 3 time winner for best vocalist at the Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards. Cleveland was also one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors big band.

His amazing vocal experiences have seen him perform with many diverse artists from around the world such as The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Art Blakey, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder and many many more. A must see!

“ A possibly unique unit of voice,bass,and drums,the group nevertheless manages to convey the entire jazz aesthetic by musical implication, while at the same time having all the internal spaciousness you’d expect”. JazzUK   “Best male jazz singer in Britain”…Evening standard    

CLEVELAND WATKISS BIOG.  

Born in the East End of London, Virtuoso vocalist, Actor and composer Cleveland Watkiss Studied the voice at ‘London school of singing’ With Opera Coach ‘Arnold Rose’ and at the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama. Cleveland was also one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors big band. His vocals can be heard on there debut album, Out of Many People which won a video award in Japan.  

Cleveland was then entered for the Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards and was voted best vocalist for three consecutive years, and was the opening act of choice for two of the worlds greatest femail jazz vocalists 'Cassandra Wilson' And 'Abbey Lincoln'.... John Fordham, the Guardian music journalist accurately describes Cleveland as ‘arriving on the scene with a bang”. He’s amazing vocal experiences has seen him perform with many diverse artists from around the world like:   Cleveland watkiss is also a very keen Music Educator, Working as a voice instructor with workshops in Venues/Schools, colleges and Universities around the UK. Cleveland is a facilitator for ‘SingUp’ (a recent government initiative to get singing back into all primary schools in the uk), He also designed the vocal curriculum for BA Students at The ‘Weekend Arts college’ (WAC) in north london. And is a regularly facilitator and voice coach for the ‘Artist Development Programme’ (ADP) at the Hackney Empire Theatre in east London.  

PRESENT:   More recently, demonstrating great versatility Cleveland watkiss was cast the Starring role In Julian Joseph’s groundbreaking Jazz Opera as ‘BRIDGETOWER’ to considerable acclaim. Cleveland has and continues to performed in many of the major concert halls, Festivals and clubs around the world. For more info see links below.  

www.clevelandwatkiss.net www.myspace.com/clevelandwatkiss www.myspace.com/vocalsuite