Ndidi Onoukwulu
VOCALS
Ndidi Onukwulu known as Ndidi O is a two time Juno nominated and WCMA blues artist of the year that has to date released six albums under her solo moniker and multiple singles as part of her trip hop duo BOGA. She has toured nationally and internationally playing festivals and concert halls. Her songs have been featured in numerous television programs and commercial campaigns such as for GAP, Orange is the New Black, The Flash (CW), Cloak & Dagger (Hulu), and most recently Self Made: Inspired by the life of Madame C.J Walker (Netflix), starring Octavia Spencer.
Hailing from the wilds of British Columbia she found her voice in the "open mic '" scene in New York, discovered her sound in the heart of Toronto’s blues and folk scene, fine tuned her live show across Europe and has now finally settled for the moment back on the West Coast. Ndidi O is working on new musical offerings from her solo project , her trip hop duo BOGA and her upcoming collaboration The Blue and the Gold with multi instrumental singer-songwriter Trish Klein.
Workshops
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This major vocal workshop will focus on understanding the voice as an instrument while discovering new ways to approach vocalization . We will build our voices and work on discovering our unique tone, delivery and dynamics and how those all fit not only in blues music settings but in any genre of music. This will be a class in which we play learn and grow in confidence and performance capabilities.
Our voice is the most powerful instrument we possess learning how to use it is key to clear self expression. All you need to bring is your healthy self, your voice and a willingness to explore and create.
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This class we will focus on harmonies, all types of harmonies, blues harmonies, r and b harmonies, classical harmonies. Harmonization is key to song development and a fun way to use your voice to add more to already established melody.
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In this minor class we will focus on developing and understanding our unique tone and how that affects the notes we want to sing vs the notes we should sing. We will delve into what tone is and how to understand and play with it in order to strengthen the uniqueness of our voices and the styles of singing we wish to do.
We will re enforce our work on vocal dynamics and how that affects our pitch and delivery. All of these things are important tools to incorporate when singing particularly in the blues. We all have our natural delivery rhythms and places in vocal melody that feel important so let’s explore what those places are and how we can play in those spaces more.
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This minor class will be all about working on our vocal delivery and our performance styles. How we sing a line dictates how the line is meant to be felt and how it sits with the rest of the instrumentation.