Aubrey Michelle Logan (born January 16, 1988) is an American pop and jazz singer and trombone soloist. Logan won the Audience's Choice Award and the Jury's First Place Award at the 2009

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. She was also an ''American Idol'' in 2009, but was eliminated in the early rounds. She is a featured artist for

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band.

Background

The daughter of music teachers, Logan was a singer, dancer and actress. Attending a new middle school, she found that her new friends had a different lunch period because they were in the band program. Eventually, Logan told her mother that she wasn't enjoying school and her mother approached the school's band director. When the band director asked what instrument she played, the answer was, "Nothing, but she sings and can read music." Logan was accepted, as long as she agreed not to choose the flute as her instrument. She enjoyed bands with

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s like the James Brown Band and

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, and having no interest in the flute, she chose the trombone. Logan graduated from the

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in 2010. The same year, she married fellow alumnus Chris Knight.

Discography

As primary artist

As featured artist

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Logan, Aubrey 1988 births Living people People from Bellevue, Washington Singer-songwriters from Washington (state) American women jazz singers American jazz singers American women pop singers American women singer-songwriters Berklee College of Music alumni American jazz trombonists 21st-century trombonists 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Women trombonists Jazz musicians from Washington (state) American Idol participants