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Al Jarreau: Music
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June 5, 2003 - Smooth Jazz superstar Al Jarreau wants to thank all his fans for their warm wishes during his recovery from back surgery last September. Jarreau ... credits "the music" for helping him bounce back so quickly even though for a while he thought he may have returned too soon. Five weeks after the surgery Jarreau was back on stage, "I was going: 'I think I can, I think I can.' And down around week four I was going, 'Aw, I know I can. I'm gonna be OK." Jarreau is in the process of rescheduling dates that were cancelled last year. Jarreau will headline the Verizon Music Festival with dates in New York City, Tampa, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. The singer has been Verizon's Literacy Champion for the past year raising funds to bring awareness to the problem of low literacy in America.
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Al Jarreau was never only a musician, he always was and he always is an entertainer. Standing on stage, Al has fun in supporting, in talking to and with the fans and having fun with his band. This creats the special live performances in the years he started his superb career, in 1976, he remarked, that he fears to become a clown of his special virousity!
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Jarreau was born Alwyn Lopez Jarreau on March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was a minister and his mother played piano in church. Al was the fifth of six children, and he became involved in music early on in life, singing at the age of four. The family lived across the street from a Catholic church, and although the family was not Catholic, the music Jarreau heard from the church influenced his love of music. "I'm not a Catholic, but I felt real close to it," he told the Chicago Tribune in 1992. "On Sunday mornings I was just hanging out with the paperboys, eating a sweet roll and drinking coffee.
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Al Jarreau tickets are available for this artist who has won multiple Grammy awards in three major genres; jazz, R&B and pop. Jarreau's versatile voice and sound helped him achieve that accomplishment that no one else has. Get concert tickets and sit back and relax to Jarreau's music live. This jazz singer will have you wondering how he does it at the end of the night.
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As a student at Milwaukee's Lincoln High School, Jarreau was a star athlete and earned respectable grades. Intent upon expanding his world view, he started undergraduate studies at Wisconsin's Ripon College in 1958. He became a productive member of the college community there, involving himself in such pursuits as basketball, student council, and service as the freshman class president. Nor did he neglect music, as he was a member of a four-person jazz vocal ensemble called The Indigos. The group performed at local venues around the state until Jarreau graduated with a degree in psychology in 1962.
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THE YEAR HAS STARTED off with a big bang for Al who is nominated for three Grammy Awards, for tracks from his first collaborative album with George Benson entitled "Givin' It Up" (Concord Music Group) which was released Oct.24, 2006. First week sales saw the album charting at #58 on the Billboard Top 200, #18 on the R&B Charts and #1 on the Contemporary Jazz Charts.
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