![]() Is Spalding's fourth studio album, released by record label Heads Up International on March 20, 2012. On February 26, 2012, Spalding performed at the, singing the standard, alongside the Southern California Children's Chorus to accompany the video montage that celebrated the film industry greats who died in 2011 and early 2012. In a 2008 interview, she said, 'What can be difficult is being a singer, in the sense that you are engaged with the audience, and really responsible for emoting, and getting into the lyrics, melody, etc., and being an effective bassist/band leader.' Spalding left high school at 16, and after completing her, enrolled in a music scholarship in the music program at, where she remembers being 'the youngest bass player in the program.'Ĭommenting on the album, 's Patrick Jarenwattananon wrote that, 'the finished product certainly exudes a level of sophisticated intimacy, as if best experienced with a small gathering in a quiet, wood-paneled room.' Spalding was the best-selling contemporary jazz artist of 2011, and her album Chamber Music Society was the best-selling contemporary jazz album. Her desire to perform live evolved naturally out of the compositional process, when she would sing and play simultaneously to see how melody and voice fit together, but she acknowledges that performing both roles can be challenging. ![]() Although she had taken a few private voice lessons, which taught her how to project her voice, her primary singing experience had come from 'singing in the shower,' she said, before she started performing vocals for Noise for Pretend. When she was 15 or 16 years old, she started writing lyrics for music for the local indie rock/pop group Noise for Pretend, touching on any topic that came to mind. ![]() Spalding found school in general 'easy – and boring' and dropped out. ![]()
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