CenterArts presents Ten-Time Grammy award winner Bobby McFerrin on Friday, January 9 at 8 p.m. in the Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. Tickets are $65 general, $65 Senior/Child and $55 HSU students. Tickets are available at the University Ticket Office at HSU or at centerarts.humboldt.edu.
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Bobby McFerrin is one of the natural wonders of the music world. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is one of the world's best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor, the creator of one of the most popular songs of the late 20th century , Dont Worry, Be Happy. His recordings have sold over 20 million copies, and his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbie Hancock have established him as an ambassador of both the classical and jazz worlds. Yet McFerrin's reach extends well beyond musical circles: he's worked with actor Jack Nicholson, comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, the Muppets and audiences around the world. to sing with this musical legend!
With a four-octave range and a vast array of vocal techniques, McFerrin is no mere singer; he is music's last true Renaissance man, a vocal explorer who has combined jazz, folk and a multitude of world music influences - choral, a cappella, and classical music - with his own ingredients. As a conductor, he is able to hear orchestrally, and with this gift has expanded his singing to include more imaginative territory than most; he might extend his vocal repertoire to sing trumpet-inspired parts in the jazz standard Round Midnight or to interpret the flute and cello parts in works by Fauré and Vivaldi, or to simply create entirely new sounds. to sing with this musical legend!
In 1983 Bobby McFerrin did his first tour of Europe as an unaccompanied vocalist, performing without any prepared material. Audiences were bewildered at first, and then blown away. Tapes of those concerts were made into the album The Voice, a landmark recording that served notice of the arrival of a major musical talent the German critics called Stimmwunder, which means wonder voice. Throughout the 1980s McFerrin continued to develop his amazing solo improvisations and audience interactions and won his first Grammy in 1985 for Another Night in Tunisia with the Manhattan Transfer. Further Grammy awards came for Bernard Taverniers Round Midnight and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, with Jack Nicholson in 1987.
to sing with this musical legend!
In 1988 he released the album Simple Pleasures, which paid homage to the music of the 1960s. Shortly after Simple Pleasures was nominated for a 1988 Grammy for album of the year, while Don't Worry, Be Happy won both the Record of the Year and the coveted Song of the Year awards. It might just as well have been named Song of the Decade, as "Don't Worry, Be Happy" hit the #1 spot on pop charts in almost every country in the world. to sing with this musical legend!
In recent years, he has combined his love of improvisation with his conducting skills, extending his vocal journeys to larger groups of singers - whether trained or not. McFerrin's solo concerts have always included audience participation; McFerrin sees them not as singalongs, but as a genuine collaborative process of making music in the moment. Dont miss your chance to sing with this musical legend!
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