Chantel Dawn McGregor is a British
blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes w ...
guitarist and singer-songwriter.
History
Chantel McGregor attended
Leeds College of Music
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ...
where she achieved a number of awards, including the Leeds College of Music Prize for Outstanding Musicianship. She gained a First Class Honours degree in Popular Music in 2008, and has gone on to develop a career in the UK and international blues and rock music scene, performing solo and with her band.
In 2011, she won "Young Artist of the Year" at the
British Blues Awards,
and in 2012, she won "Best Female Vocalist" at the British Blues Awards. In 2013 she won two categories, "Guitarist Of The Year" and "Best Female Vocalist", at the British Blues Awards. and again won the "Guitarist Of The Year" category in 2014.
Her debut album ''Like No Other'', released in 2011, was produced by Livingstone Brown,
[Sleeves notes to ''Like No Other''] who has worked with such artists as
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,
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and
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. Her second album ''Lose Control'', also produced by Livingstone Brown, was released on 9 October 2015.
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