Demi Evans is an American vocalist and lyricist from Dallas, Texas.

Biography

Demi Evans was born in the 1960s in

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. She was raised by her grandmother, who was a singer in the clubs of Dallas. This gave Evans the opportunity to meet singers such as

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. When she was fourteen, he worked at the ''

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''. In Los Angeles, she was recruited by a model agency and used the income to pay for acting lessons. She moved to New York in the middle of the 1980s and started performing in comedy acts where she imitated singer

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. She was a model for

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and

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in Paris, Milan, or Vienna. Evans moved to Germany and worked with DJ

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. She released a few pop singles. Back in the U.S. she began working with

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. She left modeling for a career as a singer and returned to Europe. During the summer of 1995, she was in a car accident. After a long recovery, she decided to live in Paris and work with drummer Paco Séry and Fred Morisset. She has worked in the group of Jean-Jacques Milteau. Evans released her first album, ''Why Do You Run'', in the spring of 2006 and toured European jazz festivals. In 2007 she sang at the Olympia.

Discography

As leader

* ''Why Do You Run'' (Iris, 2006)

As guest

* ''Fragile'', Jean-Jacques Milteau (Universal) * ''Live, Hot 'n Blue'' Jean-Jacques Milteau (Universal)Live, Hot 'n Blue page on the Official Universal Music Web Site

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Demi American jazz singers American women jazz singers Living people American singer-songwriters 1960s births 21st-century American women