Nicole Willis

Nicole Willis

Nicole Willis (born 1963, New York City) is an American singer/songwriter and painter. Willis lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

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Biography

Willis contributed vocals in London, United Kingdom in 1985 with Washington Week In Review. Prior to that she was a member of The Hello Strangers and Blue Period with performances at Munson Diner and Danceteria's No Entiendes, based in New York while working at night clubs Berlin and Danceteria. She then toured with The The as a back up and lead vocalist in 1989. Nicole Willis was the lead vocalist of the nu-soul group Repercussions. Singles and albums were released on Mo' Wax, Reprise/Warner Brothers USA, Pony Canyon Japan. Producers of those records include Nicole Willis, Gary Katz, Daniel Wyatt, Genji Siraisi, and Gordon Clay. Repercussion’s LP “Earth and Heaven”, sold in excess of 200,000 records world wide. The single Promise Me Nothing from the debut album of Repercussions LP Earth and Heaven, peaked at number 6 in the Hot Dance Music, Club Play chart of Billboard magazine on 18 March 1995. The single "Promise Me Nothing" also reached No. 1 pop radio hit in Japan, certified Japanese Gold Record Award. Together with the legendary Curtis Mayfield, the band recorded a version of Mayfield's "Let's Do It Again" in which Willis sings a duet with Curtis Mayfield in 1994 released on Reprise/Warner Brothers Records. Willis has collaborated with Leftfield singing and writing lead vocals for "Swords" on the Rhythm and Stealth LP in 1999 on Hard Hands/Higher Ground/Sony BMG Records,[1] which was also featured on the soundtrack for the film Go released 1999. The LP Rhythm and Stealth received a Platinum Sales Award in the United Kingdom. Willis has sang lead vocals to the track Call Of The Wild on the Jimi Tenor album Out Of Nowhere in 2000 on Warp Records. Willis collaborated with Nuspirit Helsinki, with writing and vocal on the track Honest from the self titled album Nuspirit Helsinki released 2002 on Guidance Recordings. Willis also wrote and sang vocals on the track Are You Ready To Party? with Mr Comicstore in 2006 on Mamushi Records. Willis has contributed lead vocals to the Shawn Lee track Jigsaw featured on the album Soul In The Hole released in 2009 on Ubiquity Records. She has also sung vocals on the track A Little Bit Of Soap on the new album from Pizzicato Five's Yasuharu Konishi solo project titled Pizzicato One. The album titled One And Ten Very Sad Songs is set for release on May 25th 2011 on Universal Music in Japan.

Willis graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from her studies at Lahti Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti University of Applied Sciences with professor Markus Heikkerö in Finland, and Erasmus studies at Sir John Cass Department of Art, London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, in 2009. Willis' concentration in her studies were oil painting, time-based media and performance. Willis collaborated with artist Sophie Calle for her installation Take Care Of Yourself with a performance in time-based media in 2007, which exhibited at the French Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2007. Willis also contributed vocals to time-based media performance Rinologia of Barcelona based artist group Los Rinos whom are artists Marcel.lí Antúnez, Pau Nubiola and film director, Sergio Caballero. Rinologia was performed at the BEM Fesival in Burgos, Spain in March 2007.

On Sähko/Puu Recordings, Willis released her first solo albums Soul Makeover 2000 and Be It 2003.[2] On those solo records Willis collaborated with producers and song writers such as Dharma One, Ercola, Nuspirit Helsinki, Jimi Tenor and Maurice Fulton. Willis and Tenor remixed Op*l Bastards single Funking in 2001 on Form and Function Records. In 2005 Willis collaborated with the Soul Investigators and released Keep Reachin Up on Helsinki’s Timmion Records,[3] produced by Didier Selin. The LP Keep Reachin' Up was critically acclaimed and sold over 30,000 records world wide. The album has been since released in the United Kingdom on Above The Clouds Records, France, Benelux, Denmark, Spain and Italy on Differ-ant, USA and Canada on Light In The Attic Records. Their song "Feeling Free" was chosen 2006 Worldwide Winner on the Gilles Peterson's BBC show.

Discography

Year Album
1995 Earth and Heaven, Repercussions
1997 Charmed Life, Repercussions
2000 Soul Makeover
2003 Be It
2005 Keep Reachin Up, with the Soul Investigators

References

  1. ^ Potts, Diana "Nicole Willis Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-23
  2. ^ Potts, Diana "Soul Makeover Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-23
  3. ^ Hoffman, K. Ross "Keep Reachin Up Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-23

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