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2021 © Vivienne Deane
Contact: deane1@videotron.ca
Maintained by
Roger Kenner & Vivienne Deane
Based on Original Site Design by
EvaBlue.com
Vivienne has been singing since an early age, where she entertained her family and friends. As a professional, Vivienne has sung for television, radio and live engagements such as the International Jazz Festival. She has recorded on many different occasions including movie sound tracks, other people’s albums and 3 of her own Compact Disc’s. She got her start when Oliver Jones requested her to be engaged at Biddles, a Jazz institution in Montreal. She worked with Tim Jackson and Skip Bey for close to 15 years, singing on out door stages and the quaint jazz bars. Her work with the Perry Carmen Orchestra lasted a year as she moved on to her own trio which Perry booked. Vivienne was contracted to do 4 half hour shows for the Bravo Television Network. These shows played for over 2 years and featured some of Vivienne’s originals. Vivienne also worked with Eval Manigat in the world Beat setting, recording an album and performing at the Jazz fest with his Big Band.
Places of engagements Live
International Jazz Fest, Old Port of Montreal, Place des Arts, Oscar Peterson Hall, Biddles, L’air du temps, Upstairs, Bijou, Ottawa Jazz Fest, Toronto Public library, Ottawa Public library etc…
Television/Radio
Bravo television network, CFCF television, CBC Radio, CJAD Radio (Len Dobbin), Beau et Chaud (Normand Brathwaite) Bachi Bouzouk (Chantal Joli), Michel Louvain Bal des Roses.
Recordings
“Verite’ Verite’” Eval Manigat, “Le Train” Vincent Beauln National film board with Oliver Jones. Mammoth French short film.
Vivienne has been composing for over 25 years. Her first 2 compositions won awards at the Black Arts Awards of Quebec. She enjoys writing in different styles; she started out with Folk music and has since written Jazz, Gospel Latin Reggae and whatever else might come into her head. Her 2 children’s CD’s are all original pieces written since 1996. Her Jazz album consists of 5 original songs and 3 standards. Her latest piece written for Skip Bey got recognition in the local paper stating that she left the audience in awe with her performance with Alex Bellegarde.. She has also dabbled with changing old traditional Christmas Carols to new melodies and arrangements for her choirs. The Chronicle spoke of the reaction of a performance by the Out of NDG choir stating that the audience enjoyed the pieces with delight. Vivienne has been commissioned to write theme songs for day cares and anniversaries. One of her pieces was used by Eval Manigat in his tour of Canada.
Jazz
…Be careful how you walk, Carnival del rio, Faces, Early Winter
Blues, Winter Days, My Love has gone away, The Facts of Life, Kenika’s
Lullaby, You and I, Skipper.
Gospel
… Jesus is mine, Have you got peace, Rejoice, Kingdom Building, If you put your trust in Jesus, Hark, Silent Night.
Children’s Music
Jungle Boogie Woogie Doogie, What a wonderful day, You can do it, Upside down, Boo Boo Blues, Time, How can you hug a fish…
Vivienne has been coaching voice students since 1988. She was recommended to do so by Carmen Mehta, her voice teacher at Concordia. She has worked with individuals and groups. She has given vocal workshops around the city. She combines classical technique with whatever style a student might want to learn. The basis for a good singer is to learn about their instruments, and a classical base never harmed a voice. Vivienne worked with Carmen for 4 years as she studied the Puccini and Mozart Arias. At the same time she was working in Jazz clubs making a career for herself. She encourages her students to have variety in their repertoire. She has worked with many groups around the city. She has been hired to put together vocal groups for benefits concerts and Christmas shows.
Her main outlook is to teach the pupil all the aspects of vocal technique to make beautiful music.
Vivienne has been officially directing choirs for 6 years. She has worked with groups in the past. Children’s choirs, vocal ensembles etc… but has acquired a paid position with several churches, and community choirs. She worked for the University of Montreal for 8 semesters directing a gospel choir. Her preferred style is Gospel, but can be found at Wesley directing Bach and other classical based works. She also enjoys Latin and whatever else she can get a hold of that might be pleasing to the ear. She has been writing for her choirs for several years. Her intentions are to make a gospel album album of original pieces in the near future.
Vivienne has been working for the last 8 years with children from the age of 18 months to 5 years, teaching them music from rhythm and notes to identifying instruments and singing songs. She helps them explore through visuals, movement, and just experiencing feeling music of different styles as they interact. Vivienne has 2 children’s CD’s of all original songs written especially with Children’s learning in mind. The songs again are of different styles and vary in topics form bugs to upside down. She loves working with children and they seem to love her. She will continue to produce children’s music as long as the songs keep coming.