Artist: Shemekia Copeland
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Talking To Strangers
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Wicked
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Turn the Heat Up
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Live Paris
Year:
Tracks: 10
The daughter of noted Texas vapors guitarist Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland began qualification a spatter in her possess proper earlier she was even out of her teens. Projecting a maturity beyond her years, Copeland fashioned herself a potent, soul-inflected screamer in the custom of Koko Taylor and Etta James, hitherto besides proved capable of a subtler range of emotions. Copeland was natural in Harlem in 1979 and her father bucked up her to babble out proper from the beginning, even delivery her up onstage at the Cotton Club when she was just now eighter from Decatur age old. She began to engage a singing career in earnest at historic period 16, when her father's health began to decline ascribable to heart disease; he took Shemekia on hitch with him as his opening act, which helped institute her name on the blue devils circuit. She landed a phonograph recording deal with Alligator, which issued her debut album Turn the Heat Up! in 1998, when she was just now 19 years old (woefully, her father didn't live to go steady the occasion). While the influences on Copeland's style were quartz sack up, the platter was met with enthusiastic reviews praising its vitality and rage. Marked as a hot offspring newcomer to watch, Copeland toured the blues fete tour in America and Europe, and landed a fair amount of publicity. Her second album, Terrible, was released in 2000 and featured a duet with one of her heroes, early R&B diva Ruth Brown. Terrible earned Copeland a slue of W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations and she walked cancelled with three: Song of the Year, Blues Album of the Year, and Contemporary Female Artist of the Year. The followup phonograph recording, Talking to Strangers, was produced by legendary piano player Dr. John and featured songs that she proudly claimed were her best all the same. 2005 proverb the going of The Soul Truth, produced by Steve Cropper, on Alligator Records.
Pepe De Lucia
