Chantel Dawn McGregor is a British

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guitarist and singer-songwriter.

History

Chantel McGregor attended

Leeds College of Music Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ...

where she achieved a number of awards, including the Leeds College of Music Prize for Outstanding Musicianship. She gained a First Class Honours degree in Popular Music in 2008, and has gone on to develop a career in the UK and international blues and rock music scene, performing solo and with her band. In 2011, she won "Young Artist of the Year" at the

British Blues Awards The British Blues Awards were inaugurated in 2010. The prize was awarded in various categories, such as 'Male vocals', 'Female vocals', 'Guitarist', 'Bass player' and 'Keyboard player', 'Blues band', 'Young artist', 'Blues album', 'Blues festival' a ...

, and in 2012, she won "Best Female Vocalist" at the British Blues Awards. In 2013 she won two categories, "Guitarist Of The Year" and "Best Female Vocalist", at the British Blues Awards. and again won the "Guitarist Of The Year" category in 2014. Her debut album ''Like No Other'', released in 2011, was produced by Livingstone Brown,Sleeves notes to ''Like No Other'' who has worked with such artists as

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. Her second album ''Lose Control'', also produced by Livingstone Brown, was released on 9 October 2015. A live album, ''Bury'd Alive'', recorded at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds on 29 March 2019, was released on 6 September 2019. This is made up of songs from the first two albums, ''Like No Other'' and ''Lose Control'', together with a song from the forthcoming studio album, a long instrumental titled "April". In December 2019, the American magazine, ''

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'', proclaimed ''Bury'd Alive'' as the 11th best guitar album of the decade. In May 2020, she released a reworked cover of ''Stupid Love'' by Lady Gaga through Los Angeles based Cleopatra Records. Also in May 2020, she became a regular weekly presenter on Hard Rock Hell Radio with her show Chantel's Monday Brunch Club. Released in November 2020, the Dr John album "Gumbo Blues" featured her on guitar. During the Covid-19 Pandemic, she has performed a weekly show, originally solo from her shed and then with Jamie Brooks on keyboards, and recorded two albums of songs from the sessions. The first of these, "Shed Sessions Volume One", performed solo with an acoustic guitar, was released on 12 July 2021. "Shed Sessions Volume Two" performed on electric guitar with Jamie Brooks on keyboards was released on 2 August 2021.

Discography

References

External links

Livingstone Brown

Official Site

Cleopatra Records Inc

Hard Rock Hell
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