Alice Russell with guest Maria Isa

BRIT RETRO-SOUL STAR WITH HER FULL BAND! One listen to Alice Russell’s voice will send shivers down your spine and leave goose bumps on your neck. Alice’s lavishly soulful voice is both timeless and up to the minute modern. Live or on record, she always performs with her trademark self assurance and sass. Listening to Alice, you’d naturally think she grew up on the streets of Detroit, just around the corner from Motown’s legendary recording studios, but surprisingly enough the blue-eyed, blonde-haired lass hails from Brighton, U.K.

Although her style is predominantly bluesy and soul lament it also encompasses everything from funk to gospel to jazz and beyond. “Growing up, I was surrounded by different types of music and you know, you just get taken by something, don’t you? It hits you in the right place and you think, ‘Yeah, Baby, I like that!’ That gospel stuff is wicked, isn’t it? And artists like Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin … I was really small, playing with my Lego, taping this stuff off of the radio. I just fell in love with soul music, quite honestly. Just hearing that music hit the spot.” Today Alice has developed a burgeoning career and massively growing audiences worldwide as one of the hottest UK soul singers, both for her solo work, and for her collaborations with Nostalgia 77 on their cover of The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army, and with Quantic Soul Orchestra. While comparisons have been made to other popular British vocalists like Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, one listen and look at Alice and you can immediately tell she’s in a class all by herself.

Guest opener Maria Isa celebrates her cultural diversity and political activism through music, incorporating elements of hip-hop, soul, funk, salsa, bomba, plena, reggae, dancehall and reggaeton into her smouldering live shows.

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Alice Russell

Alice Russell’s lavishly soulful voice is both timeless and up to the minute modern. Her style is a predominantly bluesy, soul lament but encompasses everything from funk to gospel to jazz and beyond. She always performs with self assurance and sass. Alice...

Maria Isa

Born and raised in the Twin Cities to Nuyorican parents, singer/songwriter/emcee Maria Isa learned at an early age the traditional Puerto Rican rhythms of Bomba and Plena. At the age of 14, she realized that she could fuse her love for Hip-Hop and R&B...