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The Hits Start Here - Music City's songwriter industry is revealed and revered in the June issue of Spirit magazine. Read it here. FEATURED SONGWRITERS Paula Chavis Paula, a first grade teacher, is also a member of Dr. Dorothy Productions, a cast of four women who travel throughout the U.S. in the stage production, RESPECT. She also performs with City Lights Band. Paula recently released her first cd, Special Requests, on her own label PJC MUSIC.
Connye Florance She has appeared on Broadway and performed with Tennessee Repertory Theatre, North Carolina Black Repertory Company and others. She has been featured with “Ladies of Jazz” in the Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society's Summer Concert Series and at various jazz festivals. Black Entertainment Television honored Connye as BET Jazz Vocalist of the Year in 2000, just after the release of her first cd Turn My Heart. Her international debut followed with a self-titled release on Leon Russell Records in 2001. Connye is currently a vocal performance instructor at the Nashville Jazz Workshop.
Kim Fleming In the world of theater Kim has reprised the role of Armeli in the Broadway Musical Ain't Misbehavin’, and recently cast American Idol’s Melinda Doolittle in the Broadway musical Marrying Up, in which she also wrote the melodies and lyrics to all of the songs performed in the play. Lately, Kim has been in the studio working on her own record that combines smooth jazz and R&B, with a neo-soul edge. Her record, produced and co-written by Aaron Mason and Chris Davis, is expected to be released this summer.
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Paula Chavis, a Nashville native, began singing at age four and has
never stopped. Singing her way through adolescence Paula developed her
vocal style and became involved in musical theater and high school
chorus. While attending college, Paula began singing professionally and
recording voiceovers, and was soon recognized as one of Music City’s
outstanding vocalists. In 1979, she recorded Discopedia Volumes 1 & 2. She spent the next twenty-five years performing everywhere from the
1993 Super Bowl Halftime for Kids to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Connye Florance spent the first half of her career working her
craft on regional theater, dinner theater and cabaret stages. With 20
years as a working artist now to her credit, Connye has gained
experience in nearly every facet of the industry including television,
film, theater and studio recording.
Kim Fleming, a Nashville native, has made a career as a singer,
actress, songwriter and casting director. She has toured with Amy
Grant, Trisha Yearwood and Alabama’s Randy Owens, but she especially
relates to the music she grew up with - jazz and gospel. She has worked
with some of the industry’s greatest artists such as Patti LaBelle,
Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes and B.B. King, to name a few. |
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