30 OCT 2024 · Award-winning
Crowned "Little Ella" by the late legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller, Award-winning Vocal Musician MAVIS SWAN POOLE has generated quite a buzz on the international music scene. She is graced with an unrivaled brilliance of shattering genre barriers with her rich and smoky sound. Poole is known for being one of the first R&B/Jazz/Soul Vocalists to employ her ability to sing two or more notes simultaneously, or "multiphonics". A rare gift since childhood, which has remained with her even as a vocal surgery and sulcus survivoSWAN has performed with, opened for, or shared the stage with the greats in most genres, including Lauryn Hill, Lyfe Jennings, 9th Wonder, Chrisette Michelle, PRINCE, and NPG, After 7, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples, Shirley Caesar, Dr. Billy Taylor, and The Wailers. While she has performed with other artists, she performs under her own name and her original music, proving a true Artist and Composer in her own right. SWAN is a 2007 Magna Cum Laude graduate of North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. There, she was classically trained, earning a BA in music education and a BM in music with a concentration in jazz vocal studies. In 2011, she received her MA in Music, with a concentration in Jazz Vocal Performance at Queens College in NYC. She is now making her most magical foray into the national scene of urban adult music with the soulfully crafted EP entitled, ‘Adult Time: Vol 1’, which features masterpiece singles like, "The Assignment", "How Do We Grow", and “Every Man Aint The Same”. Inspired by her personal experiences, the world around her, and her private relationships, these projects were skillfully sculpted by Mavis and producer Eddie Gypsy Stokes. Queen SWAN is definitely carving her space in the Musicverse, and establishing a solid legacy that will ensure she and her music is remembered for years and years to come.