Blues singer Zoe Schwartz: Hearing Billie Holiday for the first time was my eureka moment!
Nicky Findley
The 2017 Jazz By The Sea festival swings into action this weekend and organisers promise it will be bigger and better than ever.
This week The Guide talks to Poole-based jazz and blues singer Zoe Schwarz and her partner, guitarist Rob Koral ,who will be taking part in Jazz FM’s Blues & Boogie night at Lighthouse, Poole next Thursday, as part of the festival which runs from June 11 to June 17.
SINGER Zoe Schwarz will never forget the first time she heard Billie Holiday when she was in her mid teens.
She was a classically trained musician at the time and a student at a rather strait-laced convent boarding school in Sherborne.
“My uncle gave me a Billie Holiday tape when I was about 15 or 16 and it was my eureka moment!
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