Description: "I got about 45 minutes of Nichelle Monroe and she lit up the place like one of those movie premiere searchlights!" -- Nick Faigin, Harvelle's blogger
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Her music is a brand of "Gourmet Soul" , a blend of unique musical ingredients and influences carefully brought together, given fire, garnished, and presented with chunks of love.
"I'm a Santa Monica, California native. When I was about ten years old, we moved to southern Mississippi. These two starkly different environments had profound influences on my musical personality. I grew up listening to "straight-ahead" jazz, soul,funk, rock, reggae, classical, folk, country, blues and pop."
From those early influences, she learned to sing and perform in various styles and genres: soul, rock, jazz, hip hop, opera, dance, reggae, folk, and country. "Now, I'm a "Vocal Chameleon."