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Brenna Whitaker - Promo Album
Brenna Whitaker at Q's Bar and Lounge
1 Black And Gold  
2 Misty Blue  
3 It's A Good Day  
4 You Don't Own Me  
5 My Heart Cries For You  
6 When I'm Gone  
7 I Can't Hear A Word You Say  
8 It's Not Easy Bein' Green  
9 Love Back  
10 Anyone Who Had A Heart  
11 Sayonara  
12 A House Is Not A Home  
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As a kid growing up in Kansas City, Brenna Whitaker fell in love with the music of jazz and blues singers from a long-ago era. "Ruth Brown, Peggy Lee, Cab Calloway, Etta James - those are my people," says the L.A.-based vocalist. "I don't even know how I ended up knowing so many of their songs and standards from back then. It's almost like they found their way to me, like I'm from another time." 

After landing her first professional theater gig at age 11, moving to New York City on her own to study with Broadway veterans at age 17, and spending her early 20s leading jazz bands back home in Missouri, Whitaker headed to L.A. and started setting up a series of residencies that eventually attracted fans like Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, and Michael Bublé and caught the attention of Verve Music Group chairman and 16-time Grammy Award-winner David Foster. The first new artist Foster has agreed to develop and produce since discovering Bublé, Whitaker is now set to release a debut album for Verve that finds her reviving a vast American jukebox of classic songs and revealing the full force of her stunning, soulful voice. 

  • Brenna Whitaker set for LA's Catalina Jazz Club / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: November 14, 2023 12:00 AM
    Raised in Kansas City, Brenna Whitaker fell in love with singers from an era long-ago. “Ruth Brown, Peggy Lee, Cab Calloway, Etta James – those are my people,” says the LA based vocalist. “I don’t know how I ended up knowing so many of their songs and standards. It’s almost like they found their way to me, like I’m from another time.”After landing her first professional theater gig at age 11, studying with ...
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  • The sound of the jazz underbelly is alive and well in Dubai this summer, courtesy of Brenna Whitaker / The National
    Posted At: July 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    The sound of jazz's un­der­bel­ly is alive and well in Dubai this summer, cour­te­sy of US sing­er Brenna Whit­a­ker. She is the latest res­i­dent ar­tist at Dubai's Qs Bar and Lounge, the in­ti­mate mu­sic ven­ue cu­ra­ted by mu­sic pro­duc­er Quin­cy Jones. For five nights a week, Whit­a­ker and her three-pi...
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  • Brenna Whitaker brings her classy band to Q's Bar & Lounge for three-month residency / Time Out Dubai
    Posted At: June 9, 2019 12:00 AM

    So far, it looks like summer 2019 is bucking the trend of seeing Dubai quieten down. Hollywood-based Brenna Whitaker will be bringing her classy jazz band to Q's Bar & Lounge for a three-month residency in the award-winning Al Jaddaf bar. With celebrity fans including Stevie Wonder, Tom Jones, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, Whitaker was hand-picked by Quincy Jones himself (as are all acts at Q's) afte...
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  • Brenna Whitaker - Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: November 28, 2016 12:00 AM

    Vocalist Brenna Whitaker veers between various generations of styles on this soulful album. On one hand, she seems to have an affinity for 50s R&B, as she wails along on the doo wopper of "Misty Blue", goes noir and dramatic on "You Don't Own Me" and gets the juke joint jumping as she has fun on "I Can't Hear A Word You Say." On the other hand, she has a modern grown on "Love Back" and the synth lopi...
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