Ginetta's Vendetta

Genre: Adult Contemporary
Secondary Genre: Jazz N.Y., New York USA Contact

This jazzy, funky pop quartet, led by female trumpet-player, vocalist and composer Ginetta is a high energy show, filled with musical pyrotechnics from her superlative playing and sultry singing to the phenomonal power trio backing her,super soloists all!!

Artist Information

Biography

An alumni of North Texas state University, Ginetta has decades of experience both on the road and in the studio. She has played trumpet with numerous Latin, Merengue, Calypso, and Compa bands taking her on tours thru Puerto Rico, S. America, Trinidad, Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Blues was also a defining factor in her musical evolution and she was an honorary "Holmes Sister" with the incredible Holmes Brothers touring with them through New England and Nova Scotia. She was also a regular with the Albert Collins band whenever he played NYC. On the Rock & Roll front Ginetta played with the Boo Radleys in their U.S. debut Tour covering seven weeks and 40 states! The Vendetta was created so she could sing and play all her originals,and lead a band combining all the musical styles she had absorbed... Since it's inception they have played all over the world...from Beirut to Kosovo....She is a festival favorite and counts The Ocho Rios Festival (four years in a row), The Pristina Jazz Festival (Kosovo Republic), The Gainesville Jazz Festival, The Hudson Black Arts Festival and many others as her most special shows! She has received three billboard Song competition awards and is a yearly reciepient of the AscaPlus award for songwriting! With her horn as her passport and her power trio backing her, there's no place Ginetta's Vendetta cant go!!!2011 included trips to Canada, Mexico, the carribean & many domestic venues stateside! A brand new CD plus more festivals is making 2012 shine brighter than EVER!! CLOSER & CLOSER DOES THE GRAMMY NOMINATION LOOM........

Instrumentation

Ginetta Littlesky-Trumpet, lead vocals, composer
James "T" Tillson- Guitar, Vocals
Dave "Double D" Dawson- Drums, Vocals
Scott "White Chocolate" Thornton-Bass, vocals

Discography

"La Dolce Vita" 13 originals and one cover, Played on CD101.9 (before it's decline, Radio Valentina in Rome, Radio Liban in Beirut, Smooth jazz 100.9 in Gainesville, Radio Cayman 105.1 In the cayman Islands....New CD Out now!!!! Yippee.... Its called: "Land On My Feet"....check out the digital downloads @
www.cdbaby.com/cd/ginettasvendetta
Also you can listen to the new stuff on my facebookpage/store: www.facebook.com/ginettavendetta1
or on my website www.ginettasvendetta.com
Follow me on twitter@ginettavendetta

Official Website

http://www.ginettasvendetta.com

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Audio

Lyrics

Video

Photo Gallery

  • Brooklyn photo shoot....2010

  • MTV. Beirut, Lebanon..August, 2010

  • The Super band & me in San Miguel Allende, Mexico Thats Luis Gasca on trumpet!!!2011

  • Blowin' @ The Ocho Rios Jazz fest, 2011

  • In front of my Poster!! Mexico, 2012

  • Ginetta's Vendetta @ The Trump Soho, valentine's Day, 2012

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Setlist

Our usual set time is one hour and 15 minutes at festivals, unless they give us more or less time.. at smaller venues we contract for 3 hours. Thats 3 "45's" or 2 longer sets. Our set includes funked up versions of jazz classics, i.e. "All Blues", My Funky Valentine, Cantaloop, Feels so Good, Rise, Grazin' in The Grass, etc. along with the super danceable and moving originals: Behind Those Eyes, Turn my Back, Its My Life, Troppo, S.O.S., Carribean Lullybye, etc.

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