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MISS SANDRA KAYE |
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Sandra Kaye hails from Dallas, Texas. The daughter of a minister, she grew up singing gospel music and was often featured in church socials as a young girl with various choirs and girl groups. Sandra started her professional career by winning an amateur contest at the West End Cabaret Dallas, in 1986. She attributes her success to having a good rapport with great musicians, many hours of practice, countless gigs and frequent visits to local night spots. She has been featured with the Shelley Carroll Big Band and Curtis Bradshaw's First Reunion Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, Galen Jeter Orchestra and Vecho Vecencio Group. Kaye performed at The Dallas Museum of Art, Caravan of Dreams, Black Academy of Arts and Letters, African American Museum of Art and Culture, Sammons Center for the Arts, Morton Myerson Symphony Hall, Botanical Gardens, The Women's Museum, Texas Stadium, Eastfield College, Richland College, University of North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Dallas, South Dallas Culture Center, Mesquite Arts Center, Dallas Theatre Center, The Bob Hope Theatre at Southern Methodist University, Marshall Texas Civic Center and Preservation Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1991 and 1992, Sandra performed for the Duke Ellington Birthday Celebration with the Forth Worth Jazz Society and, in 1994, she headlined for the launching of the Anthony Mark Hankins Design Company at the Hall of State in Fair Park Dallas, Texas. In 1997, Sandra performed for the Beaux Arts Ball at the Dallas Museum of Art. Sandra has performed, internationally, in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, China, Japan and West Africa. She's opened for and sung with David "Fathead" Newman, Roy Hargrove, Monty Alexander, Dr. Dwight Dickerson, Michael Carr, Dionne Warwick, Roger Boykin, Claude Johnson, Carl Patterson, Joe Johnson, Al Dupree, Johnny Taylor, James Clay, Yarbrough and Peoples, George Tallifierro of the Marcels, The Platters, The Drifters, Tanya Tucker, Antonio Fargas and the famed comedians, George Wallace and Shucky Ducky. |
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