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ERIKA LUCKETT
Name:
Erika Luckett. Birth Name: Erika Luckett. Height: 5''.6''.
Nationality: US/Mexican. Birth Date: August 13, 1965. Birth
Place: Mexico City, Mexico. Occupation:
Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Composer. Facts: She her career writing
music for film. One of her first scores was for "Untold Stories" 1991
directed by Dorothy Fadiman which was nominated for an Academy Award and
later won an Emmy. She subsequently scored "From Danger to Dignity" and
"The Fragile Promise of Choice" also directed by Dorothy Fadiman as well as
several others. She moved from film scoring into performance when she
started the World Fusion/Latin Jazz group, Wild Mango. Touring across the
United States and internationally she released three albums with that
ensemble. In 1999, she moved into the world of singer/songwriters and
subsequently released three more albums on her own. Her latest, "UNEXPECTED"
will be released in January 2005. Additionally her debut as an actress
arrives in Spring 2005 when "THE CALIFORNIANS" (dir. by Jonathan Parker and
starring Noah Wyle, Keith Carradine, Cloris Leachman & Illeana Douglas) is
released. Education: Berklee College of Music. Magna Cum Laude.
Boston, MA Filmography: Musical score “Untold Stories” 1991,
“From Danger to Dignity” 1993, “The Fragile Promise of Choice” 1995, “Hope
is the Thing with Feathers” 2000, “Woman By Woman” 2001. Multimedia: Musical
Score “Stellaluna” (Living Books 1996), “The Berenstein Bears” (Living
Books 1993). Albums: Wild Mango “Circulo Vital” 1991, Wild
Mango “Made in Mango” 1993, Wild Mango “Oba” 1995, Erika
Luckett “Tinted Glass” 2000, Erika Luckett “My Little Crime” 2001, Erika
Luckett “The New Orleans Sessions” 2002.
Awards: FEMALE ARTIST
OF YEAR 2004, Just Plain Folks (The largest independent music
organization in the world). BEST ALBUM (Jazz Vocals), Just Plain
Folks 2003 (My Little Crime). BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF THE YEAR,
Acoustic Guitar Magazine 2002 (My Little Crime). BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR,
KRCL Radio – Susanne Millsaps 2001 (My Little Crime). BEST ALBUM OF THE
YEAR (Cabaret) , Just Plain folks 2001 (Tinted Glass). SONG OF THE YEAR,
West Coast Songwriters Association 2000 (“Evangelina”). PICK OF THE YEAR
(Children’s Multimedia Education), Newsweek Magazine 1995 (“Stellaluna”-music).
EMMY AWARD (Best Short Documentary) 1996, “Trilogy” Dir. Dorothy
Fadiman Music by Erika Luckett. ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION (Best Short
Documentary) 1993, “Untold Stories” Dir. Dorothy Fadiman, Music by Erika
Luckett. AGENT: BirdFish Records. P.O. Box 99436. Emeryville, CA
94608
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BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS: 
A
native Texan, Anne graduated from The Juilliard School of Drama when she was
only twenty years old. She worked extensively in classical theatre before
making her Broadway debut as Grace Farrell in “Annie”. This lead to an
opportunity to sing at the White House Easter party for President Reagan, and
later for Itzakh Shamir for the fortieth birthday of Israel. Film work
included playing Dudley Moore’s wife in Marshall Brickman’s “Lovesick”, as
well as appearing in “Clean and Sober”, and in Peter Weir’s “Fearless”. She
also made numerous guest appearances on series television. One of her
favorite musical theatre appearances was starring with Amanda McBroom in
“Harry Chapin, Lies and Legends” in Chicago (also recording the cast album of
that show). Returning to Broadway to appear in “Threepenny Opera” with Sting
in 1990, she followed that by creating the role of Margaret in the
Broadway-bound musical “Jekyll and Hyde” opposite John Cullum. In 1996, Anne
made her debut cabaret appearance at The Gardenia in Hollywood. Her husband,
renowned guitarist and four-time Grammy nominee Robben Ford, produced her
first solo CD, “In the Nest of the Moon”, which Josef Woodard of The L.A.
Times called, “An impressive debut CD...simply a celebration of the American
popular song.” Anne then began her longtime collaboration with her musical
director John Boswell in 1997 on a tribute to Stephen Sondheim and his
mentor, Oscar Hammerstein, which L.A. Weekly called , “An earful of some of
the best interpretations of both Hammerstein and Sondheim” and caused L.A.
Jazz Scene to declare, “She is more than ready for stardom.” Selections from
that show are on her CD “Something Wonderful”. In 2000, Anne was the vocalist
for the West German Radio Orchestra's Big Band tribute to Kurt Weill’s
centenary in Cologne’s Philharmonic Hall, also touring to Dusseldorf and
Liege, Belgium, conducted and arranged by Roger Kellaway. In May, 2001,
joined by a twenty seven piece American big band, she made her US concert
debut with an encore presentation of this Weill concert at The John Anson
Ford Amphitheater in L.A. Anne returned to The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
in 2002 to be the vocalist in “Blue Skies”, a collaboration with her husband
and jazz great Russell Ferrante. She followed that by a month long “Great
Songwriter Series” at The Gardenia in Hollywood and an appearance at Judy’s
in New York in 2003. She has appeared at The Mabel Mercer Palm Spring’s
Cabaret Convention as well as the conventions at The Herbst Theatre in San
Francisco and New York’s Town Hall, also at The Cinegrill, The Jazz Bakery,
The Boston Court Theatre and The Alex Theatre in LA , Sculler’s in Boston,
San Francisco’s Plush Room, Blues Alley in Washington DC, and many other
venues across the country.
BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS:
International concert and cabaret artist ANNA BERGMAN has been hailed
by THE WASHINGTON POST as “a
songstress who has triumphed in everything from Broadway-flavored tunes to
opera arias and the sultry innuendoes of the cabaret chanteuse” and
acclaimed for her “glorious voice and captivating, class program and
performance” by CABARET
SCENES. She
has been a soloist at such venues as Carnegie Hall, The White House, The
Kennedy Center, London’s Café Royal, Pizza on the Park, Aspen Music
Festival, Greenwich Theatre, UK (BBC Radio) and Manaus Opera House,
Brazil. Other recent credits include The 92 St Y Lyrics & Lyricist’s
EASY TO LOVE: THE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER; Chicago Humanities Festival
in HE LOVES, SHE LOVES; The Kennedy Center’s SONDHEIM
CELEBRATION in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; WALTZ OF MY HEART THE MUSIC OF
IVOR NOVELLO (BBC TV) at the International Festival of Musical Theatre
(Cardiff, Wales), New York Festival of Song and Four Nations Baroque
Ensemble. Anna has garnered critical acclaim for her solo concert-cabarets
at such venues as New York’s Stanhope Hotel, The Algonquin’s Oak Room,
Guild Hall, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, The Corcoran Gallery
of Art (Washington, D.C.), Le Chat Noir (New Orleans) and The Colony
Hotel’s Royal Room (Palm Beach). She also has appeared in concerts from
South America and the Caribbean to Europe and Southeast Asia.