Tracy Stark

Artist Information

Biography

Pianist/Arranger/Conductor/SingerSongwriter, Tracy Stark is a 4-time MAC Award winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs), a Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Musical Direction, and winner of the Dottie Burman Songwriter of the Year Award. Tracy has worked with Lesley Gore, Phoebe Snow, Karen Black, Randy Jones (Village People), Jimmy Osmond, Tovah Feldshuh, Eric Millegan, Tonya Pinkins, Ann Crumb, Marni Nixon, and hundreds of other rock, jazz, and broadway vocalists. She has conducted, played, and sung at all the finest and the sleaziest venues all over the world. She has played/conducted on numerous television shows, including The Today Show. Her songs are included on at least 20 different compilations, and have been winning accolades in songwriting competitions for the past 15 years.
Her most recent CD, ‘Feast for the Heart’ is exquisitely produced by Richard Barone, and includes a duet with the inimitable Phoebe Snow.

Instrumentation

Solo gig:
Tracy Stark - piano and vocal
Band gig:
With drummer, bass and 2 back-up vocalists

Discography

Feast for the Heart (2005)
Canvas of Dreams (2000)
Songwriter (1998)

Audio

• Walk This World
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• Life's Been Kind (Memory To Wear)
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• Woman On the Stage (Pure Emotion)
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• So Cool
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• Morning Light
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• Carnival Ride
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Lyrics

• Walk This World
• Life's Been Kind (Memory to Wear)
• Woman On the Stage (Pure Emotion)
• So Cool
• Morning Light
• Carnival Ride

Video

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Press

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  “…a captivating artist with goosebump-raising skill…one of our country’s best musicians.” Songwrite...“…a captivating artist with goosebump-raising skill…one of our country’s best musicians.”
  Songwriter’s Monthly
  
  “…perceptive and poignant, cool and hip, sassy and funny.”
  Backstage
  
  “…gifted…masterpieces…beautiful…sensual…passionate…it seems like Stark can write almost anything…You’re going to be impressed.”
  Electronic Link Journey
  
  “…creative genius…”
  Applause! Applause!
  
  “She proves why seemingly everyone in town wants to work with her....”
  Kevin Scott Hall, Edge NY
  
  “…somewhere between Ray Charles and Joni Mitchell.”
  HX Magazine
  
  “…elastic, silky sweet vocals…impeccable vocal sense of timing..”
  Les Reynolds, Indie-Music.com
  
  “… magical way of pulling the audience into her world…”
  in-nyc.com
  
  “...she immediately set a standard for quality music…charm and grace…intelligence and warmth…”
  Barbara and Scott Siegel, Theatermania
  
  “amazing arrangements”
  John Hoglund, Backstage
  
  "...supremely creative.."
  David Finkle, Backstage
  
  “zest and humor, funny and sexy”
  Michael Dale, Broadwayworld.com
  
  “….a mistress of the creamy jazz ballad”
  Mark Kirby, Music Dish
  
  “…she has a great voice, an extensive repertoire, and is funny to boot!”
  William T McEvoy, Premature Extrapolations
  
  "It’d be hard to find a vocalist with better control of nuance.
  When she purrs, it goes right down through your toes.”
  Allen Foster, Songwriter's Monthly

Setlist

Set List of Originals - Can be 2 - 45 minute sets, or more, if needed.
I do covers upon request.
I know over 2000 songs, of most styles of music.

Walk This World
Woman on the Stage (Pure Emotion)
Morning Light
Carnival Ride
Right Where I Belong
Coffee
Singer in a Bar
Life's Been Kind (Memory to Wear)
So Cool
A Million Hearts
Closer to Home
You Gave That To Me
Music Man
Movin' On
Good Life
Portrait
You Were There
Hang On
Come Back To Me
Lottery of Lovers
Fluffy World
Dreams

Basic Requirements

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