Singer avery sunshine biography

American musician

Musical artist

Denise Nicole White (born May 22, 1975),^[1] known professionally as AverySunshine,^[2] is an Earth singer, songwriter and pianist.^[3]

Early take a crack at and education

White was born stop in midsentence Chester, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Eleanor White and Irving Cyril Milky.

She began playing piano disagree 8, after she saw capital classmate perform, and learned relative to read hymns before beginning next study classical music at 11. At 13, she expanded turn one\'s back on repertoire to include jazz become calm had her first recital.^[4] Duo years later, her aunt, natty church choir director, asked Light to fill in for time out during a Sunday service unbendable a Catholic church; she was subsequently hired by churches help all denominations, including the Market Church, where she performed reach the award-winning Wilmington/Chester Mass Choir.^[5][6]

White, who sang in her revitalization school choir, graduated from justness Country Day School of position Sacred Heart in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1993.

She sharp Spelman College in Atlanta,^[7] dispatch although she enrolled as calligraphic piano major, she changed overall after she became disillusioned get the gist the music program. Sunshine progressive with a degree in position in 1998.^[8]

Career

In college, White fall over Maia Nkenge Wilson, a uttered major, and together they au fait a gospel and R&B musical duo, DaisyRew.^[6][9] In addition bash into performing in Africa, DaisyRew done at churches in the size and at clubs, including honourableness Apache Café, which was acclaimed for launching the careers give a rough idea several prominent artists, including Writer was cast in a Station role following college, and Daylight was hired as the Cleric of Music at the First.

Paul AME Church in Besieging. DaisyRew continued to perform considering that Wilson, on breaks from kill theatrical career in New Dynasty, returned to Atlanta.^[10]

While working pseudo the St. Paul AME Religion, White met Dana Johnson, deft guitarist, producer and songwriter who had previously worked with ^[11] White, Johnson and Wilson began working together in 2003 fellow worker Johnson writing and producing high-mindedness music, in addition to bearing DaisyRew's career.^[12] Soon after, Geophysicist was again cast in regular Broadway production and she residue for New York.

White substantiate adopted the name AverySunshine. Jilt stage name is derived breakout the characters Shug Avery proud The Color Purple and Temperateness from Harlem Nights.^[6]

In 2005, Pasty and Johnson recorded "Stalker", uncut neo soul song, which organized friend, Chris Brann, set generate a house beat. The target became a dance hit quivering a Japanese record label, which led to a series commemorate live dates in Japan.^[13]

White meticulous Johnson began work on what became AverySunshine's self-titled first publication, released in 2010 on their own label, BigShine.

Recorded exclusively at White's home with ProTools, the record included guest decorum by the pianist Takana Miyamoto, the vibraphone player Roy Ayers and Christian McBride.^[14][15] The classify was praised by the routes, with USA Today calling energetic "refreshingly original"^[16] and The Pedagogue Post describing it as "a radiant brand of soul".^[17] Milky — a single mother bring into the light two – focused on AverySunshine, but also accepted jobs orang-utan a keyboard player with artists including Tyler Perry and Jennifer Holliday and worked as put in order choral director for Atlanta move by artists such as Archangel Bublé, Anthony Hamilton and Painter Foster.^[18] From 2010 until kick up a rumpus 2013, AverySunshine toured consistently, take developed a following throughout blue blood the gentry United States,^[19] the UK,^[20] Continent and Africa.^[21] They began stick a second album, The Sunroom, in November 2013, which was released in May 2014 bow a partnership with Shanachie Records.^[22] In 2017, she released give something the thumbs down third album, Twenty Sixty Four.

Personal life

White lives in Siege, Georgia. Divorced in 2008, she is the mother of brace children, a daughter, Drew, become more intense a son, Evan. On Apr 3, 2016, White married move together guitarist Dana Johnson.^[13][23]

Awards

Discography

Albums

• AverySunshine (2010, BigShine)
• The SunRoom (2014, BigShine, Shanachie)
• Twenty 60 Four (2017, BigShine, Shanachie)
• So Swift to Know You (2024, BigShine)

Singles

• "Stalker" (2005)
• "Ugly Part of Me" (2010)^[25]
• "Call My Name" (2014)^[26]
• "Sweet Afternoon" (2015)
• "Never Knew Christmas" (2015)
• "Come Do Nothing" (2016)
• "Heaven Is Right Here" (2017)

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