Blue LLama

Catherine Russell
2025-10-10 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Detroit)
Sat | Oct 11

La Tanya Hall

Sets at 6:30pm & 8:30pm | $25 Cover

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About the Artist

Vocalist La Tanya Hall’s versatility in a variety of musical genres has allowed her to travel the world and work with some of the world’s most celebrated artists, including Steely Dan, Seal, Diana Ross, Bobby McFerrin, Michael McDonald, Quincy Jones, Rob Thomas, Michael Feinstein, Patti Labelle, Harry Belafonte, Steve Tyrell and Aretha Franklin. She has also appeared as a solo artist in her own right with the American Composers Orchestra, The Denver Symphony, and the St. Louis Symphony and at jazz clubs around the world. Her new record, Say Yes (Blue Canoe Records) debuted in November of 2020 and has garnered rave reviews, including being named one of the top ten vocal jazz albums for 2020.
Hall is also an active educator, teaching clinics in Basel, Switzerland for the Stimmen (Voice) Festival, as well as teaching master classes on vocal performance and the Great American Songbook for various institutions in the US. She created the first vocal jazz degree program at Oberlin Conservatory eight years ago and continues to teach there as an associate professor of jazz voice. In addition, she was an adjunct professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan for 12 years.
La Tanya is an accomplished actress, having lent her skills to numerous voice-over projects, Broadway shows, movie and television appearances. TV shows include Blue Bloods (Sabine Winston), Law & Order, 100 Centre Street, The Sopranos and Now and Again. Broadway and theater appearances include Cotton Club Parade with jazz master Wynton Marsalis; the role of Deena in the last national tour of Dreamgirls; Promises, Promises for City Center Encore Series; and Sally in A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden.

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