Deanna Bogart (born September 5, 1959, Detroit, Michigan, United States), is an American
blues
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fusion singer, pianist, and saxophone player/composer/arranger/producer.
Background
She began her career in the
Baltimore
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and Washington D.C. area of
Maryland with the ensemble Cowboy Jazz, and following that band's breakup in 1986, a stint playing with
Root Boy Slim
Root Boy Slim (July 9, 1944 – June 8, 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician Foster MacKenzie III. He was born in Asheville, North Carolina but raised in Washington, D.C.'s Maryland suburbs. He was an exceptionally bright child ...
. In the early 1990s she began her solo career.
Awards: 4x BMA (Blues Music Awards) Horn instrumentalist of the year.
In 2013, Bogart was nominated for a
Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were originally named in honor of W. C. Handy, " ...
in the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player' category.
Discography
*1991: ''Out to Get You''
*1992: ''Crossing Borders''
*1996: ''New Address''
*1998: ''The Great Unknown''
*2001: ''Deanna Bogart Band Live''
*2002: ''Timing Is Everything''
*2006: ''Real Time''
*2009: ''Eleventh Hour''
*2012: ''Pianoland''
*2014: ''Just a Wish Away''
References
External links
Official Deanna Bogart website
1959 births
Living people
American rock musicians
American blues singers
American blues pianists
Jump blues musicians
Boogie-woogie pianists
Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans
Singers from Louisiana
20th-century American women pianists
20th-century American pianists
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American women pianists
21st-century American pianists
21st-century American women singers
Blind Pig Records artists
20th-century American singers
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