Artist: Deborah Coleman
Genre(s):
Pop
Blues
Discography:
What About Love?
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Exile On Blues Street
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Soul be it!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Livin' on Love
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Soft Place to Fall
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Where Blue Begins
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Although she's a herculean vapours guitarist, songster and vocalist, Deborah Coleman got her first inspiration from an improbable station: beholding the pop chemical group the Monkees on TV. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in a military syndicate, Coleman took to music easy enough, since her pappa played piano, two brothers played guitar, and a sister played guitar and keyboards. She picked up the guitar at years octad after beholding the Monkees and began to play professionally at 15, playing bass part with a series of Portsmouth-area R&B and rock candy bands. She afterwards switched to guitar afterwards audience Jimi Hendrix, too taking to James Brown and the Beatles. Coleman began buying records by blues-rock groups like Cream and Led Zeppelin, and easy followed the music's origins back to basic blues. When she was 25, she got married and focussed on raising her girl piece working day jobs as a nurse and lineman. After her daughter grew old enough to depart place unequalled, Coleman began to play out again, topically at number one. In 1985, she began working with an all-female grouping, Moxxie. When that group tear up in 1988, she got her blues chops together as component of an R&B triad. After iI geezerhood of touring with the trio, Coleman did some woodshedding, sightedness as many blues acts as she could live and perusal megrims recordings. Coleman got the break she was looking for for in 1993 when she entered the Charleston (S.C.) Blues Festival's National Talent Search. Leading her possess band, she took first station. She right away lay together her have touring grouping, the Thrillseekers, commencement a solo vocation as a bandleader. Coleman used her contest prize of release studio time to book a demonstration and insure a record contend with New Moon Records tabu of Chapel Hill, N.C. Her debut, Takin' A Stand, was released in 1995 on that label, and she followed it up two geezerhood later with I Can't Lose, her first album for Blind Pig. Coleman returned in 1998 with Where Blue Begins; Easygoing Place to Fall followed in the spring of 2000. She released her fifth part album for Blind Big Livin' on Love in 2001, further consolidating her position as one of the top active blueswomen. Making this designation passably official, Coleman south Korean won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001. Also that year she was nominative for a W.C. Handy award for the fourth time. 2002's Soul Be It was her last platter for Blind Pig as 2004's What About Love? appeared on Coleman's new place, Telarc.
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