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Awarded to Nadia Ackerman
Nadia has been selected as a "Runner Up" in the October 2007 round of the Song of the Year song and lyric competition. Song of the Year receives entries from all over the world and only the most noteworthy artists receive such recognition.
For more information about Nadia please visit: www.nadiaackerman.com
- Song Of The Year
Ackerman is a jazz/pop singer/songwriter who has made her home in New York the past 9 years and has returned to put on a benefit concert to help raise funds not only for the Koolloos family, but also awareness of Brainwave Australia... - The Drum Media
New York based singer and former Allambie Heights resident, Nadia Ackerman a friend of Jayden's parents from school, is co-ordinating the benefit gig and has roped in some big names to donate their talent and time....
Ackerman will be performing three original songs, including one she penned for Jayden called "Little Bird"... - The Manly Daily
Discography
"Don't Take Your Love From Me" - 1999-Jazz
"Dream A Little" - 2000-Jazz
"It's Gonna Take Time" 2002 Azza Music-Pop
"Some Other Time" 2005-Jazz Silver Cab Music
"Seasons Of Light" 2007 Michael Whalen Music
Various tracks on compilation CD's...
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How did a young woman from the small beach side community of Manly, Sydney Australia end up as a singer living in New York City?
There was never any doubt in Nadia Ackerman’s mind about where she was headed. It all came down to how was she going to get there.
Nadia began singing at the age of three in her crib. She would wake up her parents at 4am singing “ Don’t Cry For me Argentina” with perfect pitch and a lisp.
At age 15 Nadia’s love of song became more than a hobby. She announced her intention to become a professional singer. Her focus was strong, and her progress was rapid. In Australia, Nadia was featured with several different musical touring companies, including The Fabulous Blues Brothers Band, and The Stars Of The Future. She toured all of Australia and New Zealand and appeared on numerous TV broadcasts.
Nadia’s passion however lived with Jazz. Her love and the influence of jazz greats Nancy Wilson, Blossom Dearie, Carmen MacRae and Betty Carter were beginning to shape her future. She undertook the challenging path of a jazz vocalist and toured extensively while recording and releasing three CD’s internationally.
Then suddenly, about a year ago, early 2006ish she began to write songs, every day, clocking in at 9 in the morning and out at dinner time, stopping only to take Woodley to the park for his constitutional. She'd hurry his business as best she could and return to her work as quickly as she could.
The songs were not “jazz” but they spoke of and to her singing talent to such a degree she has now undertaken the much more daunting endeavor of performing her own material in some indefinable genre.
“It’s pop!” “It’s alternative!” “It’s jazzy alternative pop!” “It’s folky pop alternative !” “It’s a new jazz inflected alternative pop idiom heretofore never written or spoken of!”
It's Nadia!
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