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Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch
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Tulivu-Donna Lynn Cumberbatch, daughter of Harold Cumberbatch (the baritone saxophone player), is a jazz singer from Brooklyn, and has been compared to Bessie Smith, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughn, Gloria Lynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Aretha Franklin in terms of her singing ability.
Her African name “Tulivu” translates from Swahili loosely to “beautiful,” and her English name, “Donna Lynn” is derived from “Donna Lee,” the jazz piece made popular by Charlie Parker.
Cumberbatch participated in church and school choirs, specifically the All City High School Chorus as a child, then studied formally at Herbert H. Lehman College. After training, she began her solo career, influenced by such artists as Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nancy Wilson. Eventually, she was joined by a band of three called “The Magnificent Trio,” which consisted of Mark Johnson, Donald Smith, and Rachiim Ausar-Sahu.
In live performances, when not performing with her Trio, Cumberbatch has sung with Hannibal Peterson, Kimati Dinizulu and the Kotoko Society, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Diedre Murray, the Kronos Quartet, Akyenee Baako and Drumsong Productions, The Hank Doughty/Ray Abrams Big Band and The Cliff Smalls Septet, among others. She has performed in the Caribbean, Europe and Canada, and frequently at jazz clubs and festivals in Brooklyn and New York.
Her African name “Tulivu” translates from Swahili loosely to “beautiful,” and her English name, “Donna Lynn” is derived from “Donna Lee,” the jazz piece made popular by Charlie Parker.
Cumberbatch participated in church and school choirs, specifically the All City High School Chorus as a child, then studied formally at Herbert H. Lehman College. After training, she began her solo career, influenced by such artists as Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nancy Wilson. Eventually, she was joined by a band of three called “The Magnificent Trio,” which consisted of Mark Johnson, Donald Smith, and Rachiim Ausar-Sahu.
In live performances, when not performing with her Trio, Cumberbatch has sung with Hannibal Peterson, Kimati Dinizulu and the Kotoko Society, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Diedre Murray, the Kronos Quartet, Akyenee Baako and Drumsong Productions, The Hank Doughty/Ray Abrams Big Band and The Cliff Smalls Septet, among others. She has performed in the Caribbean, Europe and Canada, and frequently at jazz clubs and festivals in Brooklyn and New York.
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hibernative wrote:
"Why would you want to listen to a band simply because they're japanese?" because kids think japan is trendy/cool and likes to surround themselves with it.
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tobbAddol wrote:
Same goes for tagging something 'Japanese'. Why would you want to listen to a band simply because they're japanese? Do you tag all American bands American, or all Belgian bands Belgian as well? It might be all right since you might be interested in knowing what language they sing in so that you know if you'll understand the lyrics. But it's certainly no help when you're trying to find bands that sound similar and are not necesarily from the same country.
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tobbAddol wrote:
Yes. Tagging should be by music genre. Anime isn't a music genre. It's an animated television-series or movie. It bothers me because if you look at 'similar artists' all you will find is artists that appeared in the same anime when you're actually looking for something that sounds similar.
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Doctorrobotnick wrote:
Tags shouldn't be thought of as genres as much as general classifications because they're based solely on how the general public classifies the artist. And just because it's a big deal to some people, I'm gonna tag her as emo or brutal death metal or something
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Doctorrobotnick wrote:
so, if an artist who is featured in an anime soundtrack should not be tagged anime, then... um, who SHOULD be tagged anime? Only artists who exclusively make music for an anime? I agree that anime is not a genre of music but neither is seen live or half of the other tags I see here on lastfm. It just so happens that that's how a lot of people know her.
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Reaper-X wrote:
Only an idiot would still tag it as anime. Anime is not a genre of music. Tulivu is a very good singer though. I loved Mushroom Hunting.
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kirbyiwaki wrote:
A song sang by her appeared in an anime, so that's enough for me to be tagged like that .__.
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pylar wrote:
*shrug* thats just how people tagged her. If I ever bothered to tag all of my music, I would probably tag all of my bebop soundtrack music as anime too.
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OrangeSlice wrote:
I suppose, but that doesn't make her an anime artist. Yoko Kanno uses many different vocalists.
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pylar wrote:
she gets tagged as anime because she had music on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack...
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OrangeSlice wrote:
How a N.Y. jazz singer gets tagged as anime is beyond me.
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