Genres Jazz, Blues, soul, Name Faye Carol Occupation(s) Singer, Role Singer | Years active mid-1960s – present Children Kito Gamble Website www.FayeCarol.com | |
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Origin Meridian, Mississippi, USA Labels Gamble Girls, World Stage, Round, Albums Flow, The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol Associated acts Billie Holiday, Billy Higgins Similar People Marcus Shelby, Kellye Gray, Machete Ensemble, Lavay Smith, Paula West | ||
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Faye Carol is a Mississippi-born jazz and blues singer based in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has performed since the mid-1960s.
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- Biography
- Selective discography
- References
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Biography
Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi, where she began singing in school where her grandmother was a teacher. At age 10 she moved to Pittsburg. Her early musical influences included Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, and Nancy Wilson. She began her singing career with gospel music, singing in church and touring nationally with The Angelaires. She won a talent show as a young adult, leading to several years of performing, touring, and recording with Oakland blues and funk band Johnny Talbot & De Thangs. With Johnny Talbot she built established herself as voice to be reckoned with, cut her first single, Good Man, in 1967 and performed at The Fillmore and countless other venues, opening for acts such as James Brown, Otis Redding, Matha Reeves, and many more.
Carol's husband Jim Gamble and pianist Martha Young exposed her to the sounds of Billie Holiday, Horace Silver, and Dinah Washington and the wealth of the jazz repertoire and The Great American Songbook. In the early 1970s she began performing in the jazz and cabaret clubs of San Francisco and soon gained a infamy and a strong following for her unique, soulful, and heartfelt interpretations of jazz standards, blues, and cabaret show tunes. The San Francisco Examiner once wrote that “no singer in the Bay area comes close to Carol's sheer intensity; she doesn’t just sell a song...she sells her soul for that song”.
Faye Carol's career has included recording with the late drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Marcus Shelby (The Flow on World Stage Records) and on-stage collaborations with Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Albert King, Charles Brown, Bobby Hutcherson, Ben Vereen, Steve Turre, Billy Higgins and Pharoah Sanders. She has performed at a number of major music festivals including the Monterey Blues Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival (with her daughter, pianist Kito Gamble), San Francisco Blues Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Berkeley Jazz Festival, and the San Jose Jazz Festival. She has also toured throughout Europe and Canada.
From 2001 through 2013, Carol Faye was the founder and director of the Music in the Community program at the Black Repertory Group in Berkeley, California. She has been the recipient of some prestigious awards throughout her career, including the KPFA BAJABA (Bay Area Jazz And Blues Artist) Bay Area Living Legend Award (2003), Top Star Awards as Entertainer of the Year (1994), and as Best Vocalist (1968), Cabaret Gold Awards (1978, 1983, & 1984) City of Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Pittsburg Entertainment and Arts Hall of Fame (2015) Oakland Blues Walk of Fame (2015), Jazz Journalists' Association Jazz Hero Award (2014), and East Bay Express Best of the East Bay, Best Singer or MC (2008)
Selective discography
1990
2007 Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land Marcus Shelby
2009 Soul of the Movement: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Marcus Shelby
2007 The Angola Project Howard Wiley
2012 Twelve Gates to the City Howard Wiley
2006 Represent Sista Kee