GIACOMO GATES

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A smoky-voiced jazz singer from the East Coast, Giacomo Gates is an expressive interpreter of lyrics who is proficient with scat singing and vocalese. Gates was born and raised in Connecticut, where he started singing at seven and was turned on to jazz by his father, a classical violinist. He studied the guitar at the age of eight and continued to study it until he was 14, but he gave the instrument up when he decided that singing was the best way to express himself musically. As a young adult, Gates wanted a change of environment and decided to move to Alaska, where he spent 12 years and earned a living doing everything from operating bulldozers to working as a bouncer in a bar. At a summer arts festival in Fairbanks, he performed a set and caught the attention of headliner Sarah Vaughan, who seemed to feel that he had read more...
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GIACOMO GATES Blue Slies album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blue Slies
Vocal Jazz 1995
GIACOMO GATES Fly Rite album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fly Rite
Vocal Jazz 1998
GIACOMO GATES Centerpiece album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Centerpiece
Vocal Jazz 2004
GIACOMO GATES Luminosity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luminosity
Vocal Jazz 2008
GIACOMO GATES The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron
Vocal Jazz 2011
GIACOMO GATES Miles Tones album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Miles Tones
Vocal Jazz 2013
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Everything Is Cool
Vocal Jazz 2015
GIACOMO GATES What Time Is It? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
What Time Is It?
Vocal Jazz 2017
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You
Vocal Jazz 2022

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G8S
Vocal Jazz 2018

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