Artist:Carol Welsman
Song:Do I Love You?
Album:I Like Men: Reflections of Miss Peggy Lee
Jazz singer Carol Welsman has had success in her native Canada recording mostly for her own label. This 2009 tribute to Peggy Lee is her most successful to date. She was born Sept. 29, 1960 in Toronto. Her grandfather Frank Welsman was the first conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her brother John Welsman is a four time Gemini award winner for his music for the TV series Road To Avonlea. After studying classical piano as a child and listening to her father's record collection, Carol majored in piano performance at Berklee in Boston. A Canada Council grant allowed her to study voice with French opera singer Christiane Legrand. She returned to Toronto in 1990 and joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. Carol started her own Welcar label in 1996. Though she has recorded for Justin Time, Savoy and Avenue, she has had her greatest success on her own label. Though Carol performs jazz standards, she also writes songs. Some of her songs have been recorded by Julie Masse and Rene Simard. The 2009 album I Like Men: Reflections of Miss Peggy Lee is her most successful album to date. She records mostly standards like Cole Porter's Do I Love You which he wrote for the 1939 show DuBarry Was a Lady. Peggy Lee recorded it on the 1964 album The Fabulous Peggy Lee. Carol recorded the album in Los Angeles with Tom Scott on sax, Ken Peplowski on clarinet, Pat Kelley on guitar, Rene Camacho on bass, Jimmy Branly on drums and Kevin Ricard on percussion. This album is available as a digital download. Carol's new album 14 will be released in September on Justin Time. It looks like she currently splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles. Here's Carol Welsman performing Do I Love You with Jake Langley on guitar, Mark Rogers on bass and Jimmy Branly on percussion at Toronto radio station AM 740 Mar. 24, 2010.
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