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| Nicolas Bearde (2012) | |
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(Photo by Ashley Summer) | Referring to his home town, Nashville, Tennessee, Nicolas Bearde describes himself as growing up in Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs country but listening to Johnny Mathis and to James Bond themes.
Nicolas has been in California since the 1970s, initially in Los Angeles, and for over three decades in the Bay Area. He's a man of many parts: singer, performer, actor and educator. Nicolas worked the R&B circuit while in Los Angeles, and then started honing his jazz cops with a regular gig at Pasand's nightclub during the early 1980s. In 1985, he became past of "Jukebox", a radio play starring Danny Glover, and at Glover's suggestion, he started taking acting classes, As a result he was cast in "Master Harold and the Boys"; other parts soon followed. Singer Molly Holm connected Nicolas with Bobby McFerrin, and in 1986 Nicolas became part of that Bay Area vocal tradition which became Voicestra and thence So Vo So. Nicolas started his own record label in 1998, and since then has issued more than a little music. Possessed of a big, deep, warm voice (which he modestly describes simply as "baritone"), he now does it all: produces, acts, sings, does voice-over work, teaches and travels. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | Bobby Hutcherson | Waiting | Waiting | Blue Note |
| # 2 | Minnie Ripperton | Come to My Garden | Les Fleurs | Flavour |
| # 3 | Jon Lucien | Rashida | Rashida | RCA |
| # 4 | Giacomo Puccini | Madama Butterfly: Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Rosalind Elias and Philip Maero, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Erich Leinsdorf | Ancora un Passo Or Via | RCA |
| # 5 | Miles Davis | Someday My Prince Will Come | Someday My Prince Will Come | Columbia |
| # 6 | Earth, Wind and Fire | Last Days and Time | Remember the Children | Columbia |
| # 7 | Johnny Mathis | Heavenly | They Say It's Wonderful | Columbia |
| # 8 | Shirley Horn | Here's to Life | Where Do You Start? | Verve |
| Book | Toni Morrison, "Beloved" or something of that nature | |||
| Luxury Item | A golf club and some balls | |||
| Tim Garland
26 Apr Ben Goldberg 01 Mar Lua Hadar 08 Mar | Molly Holm
19 Apr Remy Le Boeuf 15 Mar Stephanie Nakasian 18 Jan | Marlena Shaw
29 Mar Ben Sidran 12 Apr |