Activist and Singer Abby Dobson

Abby's sound is the alchemy of soul, folk, jazz, gospel, R&B,  country, rock and pop, forging a gem that erases musical boundaries.  Abby has performed throughout New York City to rave reviews at S.O.B’s,  Joe's Pub, Bitter End, Village Underground and Blue Note. Abby and her  Band have opened for Kindred, Leela James, Ledisi, Dwele, Rahsaan  Patterson, Chrisette Michele and Robin Thicke. Recently, Abby won  BlackPlanet's Soul Beach Music Festival's First Annual Competition in  2009 and was featured in GIANT Magazine's September 2009 issue as an  artist to watch. Abby Dobson has also sung backgrounds for several  recording artists, including Talib Kweli and John Legend. Abby was born  in Kingston, Jamaica and moved to Brooklyn, NY at 7 yrs old. Her early  recollections of music are of country and reggae songs she sang from the  radio as a child, and her aunt shushing the family at the dinner table  to listen. Though no one in her family was a professional musician, she  learned later that her father courted her mother crooning Nat “King”  Cole tunes. She sang leads in church choir with her cousins by her side  as young as 9, studied classical voice and (briefly) piano in junior  high, found herself giving recitals of arias and Great American Songbook  Standards as the only child among adults at her high school music  teacher’s private gatherings, and continued her singing studies through  college and beyond. Abby was drawn like a magnet to the powerful vocal  persuasions of Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker and Donny  Hathaway while inspired by the introspective acoustic leaning writings  of Tracy Chapman, Dolly Parton, and Bob Marley. Abby attended Williams  College in Massachusetts majoring in History/Political Science. Abby  dipped hit he underground circuit singing cover songs at open mic  nights. She began writing her own songs as a better way to get a record  deal.     http://www.indiereviewcd.com https://twitter.com/IndieRevue https://www.instagram.com/indie.review https://www.facebook.com/indie.review