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About the Show
Sing Sistah Sing! is the first work conceived and written by internationally renowned Mezzo Soprano Andrea Baker. Andrea began her operatic career with the San Francisco Opera, and now resides in Scotland. The show is both a celebration of the sound and extraordinary breadth of the African American female voice, and a heartfelt retelling of some of their most incredible life stories.
Sing Sistah Sing! brilliantly weaves together these women’s brave struggles both in the civil rights movement and in their fight for artistic freedom both at home and abroad. Some have chosen opera, jazz or blues to express themselves. Celebrated artists include Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, Donna Summer, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.
With Sing Sistah Sing! Andrea Baker tells her own deeply personal story and pays joyful, soulful and varied musical homage to many of the women who courageously paved the way. Andrea began to discover that their stories were also her story and that she too would continue to lay the path for the next generation.
Andrea is joined by one of three award winning pianists (based on availability) Richard Lewis of Scotland, Albert Horne of South Africa, and Howard Moody. Learn more about the performers here.
Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano and creator of Sing Sistah Sing!
Sing Sistah Sing! at Edinburgh International Festival 2020
SING SISTAH SING! Debut CD
This debut solo CD features a selection of songs from the show Sing Sistah Sing! -a celebration of the sound and extraordinary breadth of the African American female voice and a heartfelt retelling of some of their most incredible life stories. Artists honoured in Sing Sistah Sing! include Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, Donna Summer, Nina Simone and the great Billie Holiday. Andrea is joined by the highly acclaimed pianist Richard Lewis.
Sing Sistah Sing! has been performed internationally to great critical acclaim. This CD, recorded in Edinburgh at Stockbridge Parish Church, is a selection of excerpts from the show. It is the ideal opportunity to experience these two great artist in a completely new artistic format performing an astoundingly wide range of musical styles. Whether these celebrated singers chose opera, jazz or blues to express their inner truth, the heart of the Sing Sistah Sing! story is that all of us, as African American women, carry in our souls and voices the sounds of our ancestors’ songs of the plantation.
CD release date May 11, 2018. Available online and direct from www.birnamcdshop.com Amazon UK, US & Digital iTunes.
Listen to a behind-the-scenes making of the first Sing Sistah Sing! CD:
Watch the Trailer