User:Seay
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Seay is an American born Singer,Songwriter and Visual Artist who lives in Nashville. Her music has been classified as New Age, and Torch with Pop and Classical Incluences. To date she has released 2 albums.
[edit] Biography
Seay (pronounced say) was born on Sept 15 in Charlottesville, Virginia as Melissa Seay Harshaw. Raised in a Renaissance environment, her parents encouraged her artistic and musical pursuits with piano,voice and art studies.Her house was filled with music and art as far back as she can remember. Seay has studied voice with renowned voice coaches Helena Shenel, Seth Riggs, and Ray Hyson with graduate studies in Opera from the University of Southern California. She is also a graduate of the prestigious Sotheby's Art Institute, in London. Though American born and raised, her early childhood years were spent in the army, which led her to Korea and Japan, and later Spain and the United Kingdom. It was while living in London that her voice and songwriting got noticed, and her music career began, singing on projects for Motown, Warner Chappell Music, Carlin Music, and Producers and Recording Artists like Annie Lennox in London's music scene.
As rare and unique as an identical snowflake, and more haunting than a scream in space, Seay (pronounced say) Blessed with many gifts, she is a Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Producer, and Visual Artist. Her voice can be heard on records in Europe and America and recently her visual retrospective of music's pioneers: "The Power Of Sound" at Dreamworks Universal,The Nashville Jazz Workshop, The Songwriters Guild, and on the ABC Lifetime Channel. Raised in a Renaissance environment, her parents encouraged her artistic and musical pursuits. Seay has studied voice with renowned voice coaches Helena Shenel, Seth Riggs and Ray Hyson and has a graduate degree from the prestigious Sotheby's Art Institute, in London. Though American born and raised, her early childhood years were spent in the army, which led her to Korea and Japan, and later Spain and the United Kingdom. It was while living in London that her voice and songwriting got noticed, and her music career began, singing on demos, records and projects for Publishing houses, Producers and Recording Artists like Annie Lennox in London's music scene. Considered incredibly unique by Nashville's standards her place of residence for the last several years, her Engineer says, "Imagine a great songwriter, throw in a unique and interesting sound with the chops of any great singer out there and you have a very special artist". Respected music journalist, RJ Lannan and The New Age Reporter named Seay and her debut release, 1 Voice "One Of The Top Ten Releases for 2005". Recently Seay has moved into the world of Film and her music will be featured 2 upcoming short films: "Black Tear" airing on Blip TV and "Gracie" scored with Scott W. Hallgren and directed by Jeff Wedding. Seay is also at work on her second project, slated for release in 2007, which will have some surprise guests and is sure to be an unparalleled listening experience.
Seay lives and works in Nashville and is currently composing 2 new projects slated for release in 2008.
