Artist celebrates career anniversary and birthday With A Musical performance
Tracye Eileen, R&B and smooth jazz singer, has opened for recording artists, including Babyface, Chante Moore and Buddy Guy. Photo provided by Vanessa Abron of Abron Agency.
Nov. 14th, at 5 p.m., with the birthday celebration, and the performance at 5:30 p.m. at Buddy Guy’s Legends, located at 700 South Wabash Ave.
Throughout her illustrious career, she has accumulated constant rotations on smooth jazz radio stations and has opened for major recording
artists including Babyface, Chante Moore and Buddy Guy.
of blew everybody away. My teacher even had me come to her house with my grandmother to practice the lines in the basement, but at school I just couldn’t do it. So what they decided to do is was three casts, they rewrote the play so that I could just sing in all three casts. They had Dorothy go
to sleep and I came in as the fairy godmother so that was kind of the beginning of how significant music was to me.”
and her college jazz band, the Jackson State University singers. Her original goal was to get her degree, her Master of Business Administration,
work for CBS Records and get discovered by somebody in the studio. When that didn’t happen, she continued to sing, travelling to Switzerland
with her church, and performing at weddings and funerals. After her second
divorce, Eileen decided she was going to focus on her music career.
for me actually, it interrupted me as far as singing in the choir because I had taken a leave because I was so busy with my day job and running the music business and performing. I couldn’t make my women’s chorus rehearsal commitments, so I had just actually worked it back in and had been going back for a few months before the church got shut down due to COVID, since then I’ve actually came back in and sang a solo and online as well.”
have a long history in that as you know.”
performance, but it’s also a birthday celebration. “It’s just celebrating this 10-year journey as a professional artist, so there will be a video piece that recaps and shows a lot of pictures of how things have been over these past 10 years.”
eventbrite. com. For more information on Tracye Eileen, visit www.
tracyeeileen.com.
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