Louise Golbey

Biography

It's not often that you get the chance to witness the emergence of a complete artist and that is exactly what the Soul scene has acquired in the form of Louise Golbey.

Louise is a London - based singer, songwriter and musician. Her sound can be described as contemporary Soul with a twist of Jazz...her voice is unique.

Gigs - Louise is a familiar face on the London Soul/Jazz live circuit, supported artists such as Omar, Vula (Basement Jaxx), Kele Le Roc and Krystal Warren and has performed extensively across London and beyond as well as playing regularly at renowned venues such as The Jazz Café and Ronnie Scotts. She recently performed at Wyld Pytch Record store in Soho (where her EP is now on sale) the Soundstage Event at The 02 Bubble and played at The London Jazz Festival 2009 opening night at the Barbican and is performing again in this year's festival at The Millbank Lounge on November 18th.

Music - Louise has released two EPs on iTunes as well as several singles and has new material coming out very soon.

She is currently working with various producers (8Trak, Alex Morris & Cato Hoeben) as well as continuing to work with Mercury Music Prize nominee Drew Horley, (De La Soul, Estelle, Roots Manuva, TY, Natalie Williams and Nate James). Louise has just finished working on a Soulful House remix of a Jill Scott track and a collaboration with UK Grime act Newham Generals (signed to Dizzie Rascal's Dirtee Stank label) and recorded a track with Example last year.

Radio Play & Interviews - Last year Louise's track Same Old Same Old was Ras Kwame's tip of the week on The Homegrown show - along side Mercury Music Prize winner Speech Debelle. Subsequently Louise's tracks have been played regularly on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, 6Music, Jazz FM and Colourful Radio.
Louise did a live interview and played three of her tracks on Ronnie Herel's show on Radio 1Xtra in March: Click here to watch video footage of the interview: http://vimeo.com/10331297
And she recently did an interview with Soul Culture online magazine: http://www.soulculture.co.uk/features/interviews/louise-golbey-dont-call-her-a-jazz-singer/

Glastonbury and Maida Vale - She wowed crowds on The BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury 2009 www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/artists/louisegolbey
At the beginning of this year she was invited to do a recording session at the famous Maida Vale studios for the BBC check out the tracks she recorded here: www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/artists/louisegolbey/mvsession

Videos - Louise has several music videos and live performances available to watch on YouTube.

Her latest music video for her track 'Same Old Same Old' features BBC Radio 1 DJ Ras Kwame and the BBC Introducing team filming behind the scenes during the shoot. Click here to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr76zDbIOsI&hd=1
The video was directed by Gareth Bowler & produced by Louise herself. Louise is currently working on videos for her next single releases...

www.louisegolbey.com
www.myspace.com/louisegolbey

For any PR enquires, press releases, interview requests or high resolution images please contact Coard-Anthony Henry at Marvellous Communications on 020 7-240 0588 or coard@marvellouscommunications.com

Shows

• August 22nd, 2010 08:00 PM
  Bruno's Roof
  Invite Only
• September 3rd, 2010 08:00 PM
  Soul'd Out
  Cottons, Islington. feat: Kele Le Roc
• September 14th, 2010 08:00 PM
  Ruby Sings
  Ronnie Scott's Bar, London
• September 30th, 2010 08:00 PM
  Jazz/Soul
  Yellow House Bar & Kitchen, Surrey Quays
• October 5th, 2010 08:00 PM
  Miss Bee Presents
  The Elgin, Ladbroke Grove, London

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