MICHELE MELE - CHA CHA

Michele Mele is a natural, highly connective and communicative performer and composer, who’s symbiotic collaboration with Toronto-based producer, composer and guitarist Greg Kavanagh has resulted in her recent release (and fifth gorgeous recording), Cha Cha. Michele’s previous CDs, Like This, Laugh, Feel and her 2009 well-received one-woman show and recording, Naked on the Rocks have already made quite a splash on the international music scene. Her appealing Astrud-Gilberto-ish vocals are a refreshing change from the over-wrought Divas who all too frequently hold sway on the airwaves and in the clubs.

Michele’s original compositions, highly musical arrangements, thrilling instrumental performances and charming vocal style have elicited fans throughout the world. Her supporters have been willingly and happily mesmerized by her uncanny ability to dip into the well of common human experience, and fashion melodies and accompanying lyrics that inevitably touch our hearts and souls. Through her eclectic and deeply relevant music, we can all catch a glimpse of ourselves, and of our common experience of just being human. Michele Mele is from a family of professional musicians. She began playing piano as a small child, and before long it became apparent that music was in her blood; by the time she entered high school, she had already completed all of the necessary music credits for graduation. Michele holds degrees from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and Faculty of Music Education. As a music educator, she has conducted numerous song writing and active listening workshops at schools and other Toronto area venues.

In 1989, Michele Mele wrote the hit song, “That’s All I Know”, which was recorded by vocal artist Neil Donnell. The recording subsequently went “Gold” in Canada. Michele has also composed and arranged choral works for large choirs, and in 1991 she composed a Christmas-themed work for the Toronto Philharmonic, which they performed in concert. Michele Mele has perpetually been a favorite performer at a number of Toronto’s top music performance venues, and has also performed in New York City, throughout Canada and the U.S. and also in the Caribbean.

Michele’s debut CD, Like This, contained exclusively original material and was released to a warm reception from critics and fans alike in 2003. Her subsequent recording projects followed, culminating in the release of Cha Cha in 2012. All of Michele Mele’s CDs reflect her personal artistic vision. With the happy addition of Greg Kavanagh, Cha Cha is the stunning coalescence of Michele’s talent, clever and communicative songwriting, and the superb musicianship of her ready list of first string co-horts, including Canadian greats: Guido Basso on trumpet and flugelhorn, Michael Stuart on sax, Bill McBirnie on flute and guitarist Lou Bartolomucci.

Michele is a creative personality who also has a number of diverse specialized skills, and in addition to her musical pursuits, Michele is the mother of four beautiful children, a certified scuba diver, an accomplished trapeze artist and slalom water-skier.

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