Alice Parris is a Poet/blogger/songwriter/jazz singer. Her Spoken Word CD entitled, SOULGASM, continues to be popular all over the
world. Ms. Parris is known for singing jazz standards and favors Torch Songs: ballads from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Her influences are
BIillie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Female gospel singers from an
earlier era of Traditional Urban Gospel are also an influence.
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