Kirk Whalum Biography

Heartfelt, energetic stirring...these are the words frequently used to portray Kirk's music. Manufactured from his Memphis (TN) gospel roots and his 1980's inception into the flourishing Houston TX club scene Kirk's enormous rich tenor sound is indisputably his. The '80s were featured by Kirk's venturing out of his blooming sideman job and framing his own band. It was there that Kirk at last created the two his voice and songwriting in the pot of the nearby club scene particularly at a housetop club called Cody's. It was additionally in Houston where jazz musician Bob James found him and welcomed him on a visit which prompted five fruitful collections with Columbia Records including Cache Kirk's first number one collection. Also Kirk and Bob got a Grammy designation for their coordinated effort collection Joined at the Hip. Subsequent to moving to Los Angeles Kirk turned into a sought after meeting player for top craftsmen like Barbara Streisand Al Jarreau Luther Vandross Larry Carlton Quincy Jones and most strikingly Whitney Houston among numerous others. It's his sax heard on the uber hit I Will Always Love You. Kirk before long followed that vocation high point with his remarkable hit collection delivered on Warner Bros. Records For You maybe the best of more than 25 independent chronicles to date; others incorporate his mixed Gospel According to Jazz arrangement. An appointed priest Kirk has earned his Masters of Art in Religion. It's in this soul that he serves his locale oftentimes performing at nursing homes schools and missions. There is likewise his every day fifteen-minute web recording Bible In Your Ear (BIYE) in which he welcomes you to tune in along as he peruses the Bible in a year. Notwithstanding music and service, Kirk has an enthusiasm to teach youthful hopeful artists and as such he right now fills in as an inventive consultant of the STAX Music Academy and the STAX Museum of American Soul Music in his old neighborhood of Memphis TN."

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