Vanice
I'm an r&b artist but I started and will ALWAYS be in the church! I don't want to JUST be r&b! I hope to do a little bit of everything!!!
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Demolition (snippet) Demolition (snippet)
Beggin For Your Love Beggin For Your Love
Vanice-All Eyes On Me Vanice-All Eyes On Me
Beggin For Your Love
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Up and coming R&B artist, singer-songwriter, and vocal trainer,Vanice, learned her love for music at a very young age. Starting with the beautiful vocals of her father, and then growing up in a baptist church where her mother sang in one of the largest and greatest choirs in the northwest. Church is where she found her biggest influence from a former member, Michelle Kornegay, or who sang "His Eye Is On The Sparrow."From that moment on, she knew that she wanted her gift to not just be music, but to utilize her gift to touch and change lives. So she took a hymn book home from church that Sunday and stood to sing in the vacuum cleaner handle and never stopped singing after!" says her mother.
She began singing in choirs at her home church, St. John Baptist. Starting with the beginners choir and ending with the youth choir. She also took up choir in middle school and continued on throughout high school where she also competed in many talent competitions. Today, she continues with choirs at her church, Divine Revelation Ministries, where she is the director of both the children and adult choir, head of the childrens praise team, and leader of the adult praise team. She has also participated in many other vocal activities such as Hal Jackson's Talented Teens Scholarship Competition where she ended up being the first 13 year old to ever place, placing as 3rd and then the following year in the same pageant placing as 2nd. She's also done a vocal competition at the Tacoma Mall where 3LW judged! In 2007 she did a gospel competition where national recording producer, Derek DC Clark, judged and placed 3rd!
Being vocally talented has always been something everyone's known about Vanice. She's also a poet. "I just hear creative tunes in my head and write down whatever comes to mind at the time!"Her most known song that you can find on myspace.com/dvl1787 "Love Me" was written in her sophomore year in high school. "Someone asked me to tell them how I really felt about them and this tune hit me and so I put 2 and 2 together, and came up with a tear jerker!" Playing the piano is another small talent Vanice has. "It's just something she picked up." says her mother. "At a young age, piano lessons stopped being so fun! But she can still pick up somethings here and there." Says her father.
Growing up she's always been surrounded by great music and phenomenal musicians! Her oldest brother, Drew-P, a producer and well known and very talented drummer who can also play a little piano. Her baby brother, AJ, an upcoming piano player, vocalist, and producer, who also takes up drums and clarinet. Attending her oldest brother's performances with local live band “D1 Experience” is what at first landed her as a singer in the group where she later took on the role of the vocal coach. Prior to the new year, she did back up for international recording artist Shyan Selah and Republic of Sound and has collaborated with lots of different artist. She was also a former member of “Nu Empire” where she began working on her debut album “A Woman's Anthem!”
Some of her influences are India Arie, Lalah Hathaway, Etta James, Beyonce, Norah Jones, Algebra, Jazmine Sullivan, Tank, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Joe, Tonex, Natalie Cole, and many more!!! Anything that sounds good and touches the soul is good for her! Her one wish is to one day be able to yodel! For now, she plans to learn and master every kind of music she possibly can and also become one of the first black women to own a successful record label that provides all the necessities for all artist to master their gifts. She'll continue to be active in church and strive to make it BIG in the industry to bring back substance and good music everyone can listen to. “The only way to reach everyone musically, is to learn and love all different types of music!”
For further info, you can contact Vanice at danalightbourn@ymail.com.Band/artist history
I started in church of course!
From there I did talent shows.
THEN CAME PAGEANTS! Did a talent competition for a scholarship and placed 3rd the first year and 2nd the second year.
I've done a showcase for 3lw.
I've opened for Genuine doing backup vocals for the first band I was with
Joined a fusion(rock, hip hop, and soul) band and did some back up
I've auditioned for "The Voice," "X Factor," and "WTCOPA"
I'm over 2 choirs and 2 praise teams at my church currently
I've done PLENTY of collabs!!!
I try to sing every where I can from the national anthem, to cover songs, to my own originals!Have you performed in front of an audience?I play live every chance I get! My oldest brother is a part of a live band. I actually started with them so it's ALWAYS nice to rock my originial material with them! I LOVE to perform live! It's crazy, the energy you feel when being on stage and everyone's dancing and singing along to your music! INSANE!!!
Your musical influences
Tonex-his range is INSANE!!! This dude sings better than ANYONE I know! His testimony and story makes his SO real it's crazy! AND I actually got the chance to talk with him and meet him. He's not your typical celebrity! He's a normal human being that's in the spotlight, can blow, and has been shunned from the world because of the things he struggles with!
Lalah Hathaway-EVERYONE knows this lady's voice is phenomenal! I've never heard a female voice more beautiful and angelic than hers. I've been hooked since "Forever, For Always, For Love!"
Beyonce-This lady SURE knows how to put on a good show! She can fall and break every bone in her body, get back up, and perform like pain does NOT exist! THAT'S a superstar right there!!!What equipment do you use?
Anything that makes ME sound AMAZING!!! LOL!!!Anything else?
I want to build or HAVE personal relationships with everyone who supports me no matter how big I get! I can't do this without God and the support of GOOD music lovers! I'm bringing substance back WHILE having some fun with it! You'll ALWAYS be able to relate to me because everything I sing about is real life! The more I experience, the deeper the songs, the more I'll reach YOU!Contact
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