Nina Tolins

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* Winner 2009 BILLBOARD World Song Contest - r&b/blues category! (Billboard judges were the first to review her new album REBEL WITH A CAUSE calling all the songs hits!) voted Long Islands Best Singer by the Long Island Press 3 years running. 

!With powerhouse vocals and a 4-octave range, a sultry r&b / jazz-tinged voice immersed in old & new school rock stylings, dynamic, emotional & electric delivery, songwriting beyond the original and the exciting REBEL BAND- MY Space Top Artist NY & Japan, Billboard Contest Winner and ASCAP showcased songwriter, NINA, has created an unprecedented buzz with the NYC music scene as fans & club owners alike nickname NINA "THE VOICE". The news has spread quickly to new fans & sales from places as diverse as Europe & Nashville to Seattle & Japan !!

Nina brought down the house at Caesar's, Atlantic City when Patti LaBelle called her on-stage to sing "At Last" a' cappella and had "the joint jumpin'" as a vocalist for jazz legend Marion McPartland & her trio. Singing since the age of 3, NINA has worked with some of the top names in rock, jazz & r&b : Steve Holley, Harry Whitaker, Myron Walden, Chico Hamilton, Junior Mance, John Reilly, Joe Magnarelli, Gene Paul, and Alan St. Jon; to name just a few. She has performed at some of music's top venues � from large concert halls such as the Eastman Kodak Theater, Tillis Center, and Disney World, to the more intimate, famous clubs of NYC � Sweet Rhythm, The Bitter End, Kenny's Castaways, The Cutting Room etc.

At the age of 17, NINA was chosen from hundreds of singers state-wide as one of only 12 members of the prestigious NY All-State Jazz Ensemble � performing for the State Legislature and Governor. Counted among her accomplishments are headlining the 25th Anniversary Party for Ronald MacDonald House Children's Charities, the nationally televised International Festival of Music and Dance for Cablevision, Carrib-Beat for the New York Daily News, and starring roles in Funny Girl, Hair, Chicago, Cabaret, West Side Story, and Into The Woods at the Landmark Center in Long Island.

She and her song "Gabriel" were chosen for inclusion in the Time/Warner off Broadway play Sex Is More Than A Three Letter Word which ran at The Producer's Club in NYC. Her Lion's Den, NYC gig was also featured by Time/Warner in an interview broadcast on their show What's the T.

The release of NINA's first album, NEW SCHOOL ROCK, RHYTHM & GROOVES, was met with wide acclaim for its synergetic merge of both old school and new school rock. Lauded as an eclectic blend of classic rock, jazz, r&b and pop, NINA worked on the album with some of the best in the business: Elisa Hale producing with Bob Stander at the board, legendary drummers Steve Holley & John O. Reilly, famed jazz artists Harry Whitaker, Joe Magnarelli & Myron Walden and mastering legend Gene Paul. 

Her 2nd album - REBEL WITH A CAUSE - was released Feb 2010 and features radio-friendly songs written by Nina and Elisa Hale which continue her journey of combining Rock, R&B, Pop and Jazz into an eclectic mix of stunning vocal performances. The R&B Ballad, Nobody's Gonna Own Me, from the album was picked as a winner of the 16th Annual Billboard Songwriting Contest - written and performed by Nina. The remaining songs on the album all received glowing reviews by the Billboard judges as well !

Her Ep Nina Sings won her a Billboard Songwriting contest award and World songwriting award for her Song Can I get a WITNESS She plays Jazz and Soul Original and Covers with the help of her Duo and  Trio Partners GAI AND GREG 

" Nina, Nina, Nina Lord have Mercy! Did you hear that girl's pipes!? I'm afraid of that Lady!
(PATTI LaBELLE to her back-up singers after calling Nina onstage at Ceasars, Atlantic City. Nina sang At Last accapella and brought the house down. Then to Nina, Patti continued:) I'm not going to lie to you, it's a hard life. But you? You, Miss Nina, do not let anybody or anything get in your way!