Joanna Eden is an English
jazz
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singer, songwriter and pianist.
Biography
Eden was born in
Lincolnshire
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into a musical family, the daughter of an
RAF
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bass player,
John, and a drama teacher, Diana. She started learning the piano at six and performed her first composition, "Happy December", aged seven.
She obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Creative Arts, majoring in music and drama, at
Manchester Metropolitan University
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. She performed with a local Indie band, Strip, as lead singer and co-writer while also continuing to write and perform solo.
Eden relocated to London after college and started working as a singer/pianist in the bars and restaurants of
Soho
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The area was develo ...
. She married drummer Charlie Price.
Eden and Price formed a jazz trio with Dan Boutwood, and this unit worked cruises for
Cunard Line and
Royal Caribbean International
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. Subsequently, they worked hotels in Cyprus and the UK.
On returning to the United Kingdom in 1999, Joanna signed her first recording contract with the
Black Box
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label, now owned by
Universal Music Group
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. Her first album, ''A Little Bird Told Me'', was released in the summer of 2000 and launched at
Ronnie Scott's Club
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959.
History
The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Sco ...
, it was played on
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'' and others. Eden returned to the studio and the self-penned album ''My Open Eye'' was released independently on Eden's Mr. Riddles Music Label in 2005. It was re-released with world-wide distribution via
in 2007. The critical success of ''My Open Eye'' brought about support slots with
airplay.
After tracks from the album were played by Michael Parkinson, her manager obtained support for Eden from the supermarket chains,
.
She released her third album, ''Moving Shadows'', an album of covers, in 2007 on the 33 Jazz label.
This is a jazz trio album, featuring Charlie and long-term bass collaborator Julie Walkington.
In August 2007, the Joanna Eden trio headlined the fifth Picnic Jazz concert at the Pavilion,
.
. She teaches music, and her former students include
2014.
.