Check out Nayanna on "Bom Tempo"- the new album by Sergio Mendes. Nayanna joins Sergio and his band on "Emorio" & "You and I". Released on June 1, 2010. Concord Music.
Nayanna Holley is a native of Los Angeles, California. She was introduced to music at age two, traveling the world with her father: renowned studio singer and vocal coach for American Idol, Dorian Holley, while he toured with Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart and James Taylor.
Nayanna began to study music at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she graduated in 2002 with honors. She also attended the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood in the summer of 2001. In June of 2007, Miss Holley graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies and a double major in Spanish.
She has participated in the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Academy 2007 under the direction of distinguished jazz bassist, Christian McBride, and in that same year was chosen among many as a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Competition.
She is now making her own mark in the music scene having toured with Queen Latifah, Sheryl Crow and French Rock & Roll icon, Johnny Hallyday.
She has worked on shows such as Dancing With the Stars, The Grammy Awards, and American Idol, and has sung background for artists such as Michael Jackson, Patti Austin, Sergio Mendes, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson and others. In February 2010, Miss Holley performed for President Obama & the first family on the PBS special, "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement.
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INFLUENCES: Lizz Wright, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Dorian Holley, Ella Fitzgerald.
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