Pamela Wise
Pamela Wise (Musician)
Pamela Wise is an American jazz musician, pianist, and composer who is currently living in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is originally from Steubenville, Ohio, where she began learning to play music from the age of five.[1] She played in a few jazz ensembles and worked with several R&B groups local to the Detroit, MI area before eventually releasing her own album in 1994 entitled SONGO FESTIVIDAD. Some of her work has received international recognition including her albums SONGO FESTIVIDAD (1994), NEGRE CON LECHE (2002), PAMELA’S CLUB (2007), and KINDRED SPIRITS (2015).[2]
Pamela Wise is married to jazz musician Wendell Harrison, whom she met after moving to Detroit.[3]
Artistic Influences from Africa and Latin America
Pamela attributes the passion, inspiration, and motivation of her music to the music of her African ancestors. Drum rhythms and the patterns found in African music are the basis of her work, with a specific focus on the influential elements of the countries of West Africa, including Congo, Mali, Benin and Nigeria. Her work is often poly-rhythmic and utilizes oddly metered time signatures, which is an identifiable element in traditional and modern African music from these regions.[2] "There is very little distinction between [African and Cuban] music because we had many African slaves brought to Cuba during the trans-Atlantic slave trade," Wise says of the origins of the two ethnic sounds. "We are just talking about a change of location." Wise prefers to play a more Latin jazz sound.[4]
Service work in the Detroit Community
Currently, she is serving as Music Minister at her church, a piano teacher, and is executive director of Rebirth Inc., a non-profit jazz performing arts organization that produces live concerts and jazz education programs. [4]
Awards
- Kresge Artist Fellowship for Music received from Kresge Arts in Detroit in 2016[2]
References
- ↑ "All that jazz - Idlewild festival sizzles". The Lake County Star. Volume 129 (Issue 33). August 15, 2002.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Pamela D. Wise - Kresge Arts in Detroit". Kresge Arts in Detroit. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
- ↑ "Pamela Wise - Detroit Musicians Profile" (PDF). Detroit Federation of Musicians. Archived from the original (PDF) on
|archive-url=requires|archive-date=(help). Retrieved 2018-07-08. - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Musician Pamela Wise Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Shrine of the Black Madonna". Retrieved 2018-07-08.
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