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Click the player below and listen to Sandra
Hall
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| Webpage: http://www.dmrecords.com/dmmusicgroup |
| Location: Atlanta, GA, |
| Description: Hall is a brassy, big-voiced
belter along the lines of Koko Taylor |
| Biography: Hall sang from very early childhood,
singing not only in church but also performing
for admiring customers at her grandmother's
fish fry. From the age of 12 she sang in
a duo, the Soul Sisters, with her sister
Barbara Hall. From the mid-60s she sang and
danced with the Exotic, a female group that
sometimes opened for touring blues and soul
artists visiting Atlanta, in particular at
the Royal Peacock, one of the city's
leading nightclubs. Later, Hall worked as
a nurse in Atlanta, singing part time, and
she also raised her daughter. Unafraid to
offer highly charged songs that are replete
with innuendo, if not outright sexuality,
Hall is perhaps best caught live although
her recordings retain some of that same earthy
drive. Hall began recording in the mid-70s
and successfully blended earthy blues with
soaring soul. Any blues singer who takes
as her billing the accolade, "Empress
of the Blues", has a lot to live up
to and if Hall is no Bessie Smith then she
is certainly worthy of a wider audience than
has so far been hers although she has visited
Europe where she attracted attention from
fans and critics alike in Switzerland, where
she sang at the Montreux Festival, Germany,
the Netherlands and Italy. In 2005 she appeared
at the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival.
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