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STEVE TYRELL TO SERENADE GPAC
8/25/08

Germantown Performing Arts Centre

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 25, 2008

 

 

STEVE TYRELL TO SERENADE GPAC

 

The Germantown Performing Arts Centre presents Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell on Sunday, September 28 at 7 p.m.  Tyrell has achieved success as a performer, song writer and producer, working with artists ranging from Dionne Warwick to Rod Stewart. With his breakthrough performances in "Father of the Bride" and "Father of the Bride II," Steve Tyrell reinvented and re-popularized classic pop standards "The Way You Look Tonight" and "On The Sunny Side of the Street" for a modern-day audience.

 

WHO:              Steve Tyrell

 

WHEN:             Sunday, September 28, 7 p.m.

 

TICKETS:         Single tickets are $30, $35, and $45, plus handling fee, and are available September 2 by calling (901) 751-7500 or online at www.GPACweb.com.

 

Box Office Hours: Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and

Noon on day of performance.  All major credit cards accepted.

 

WHERE:           Germantown Performing Arts Centre

                        1801 Exeter Road

                        Germantown, TN 38138

 

CONTACT:      For more information or to arrange an interview with the artist(s), please contact Carrie Corbett at (901) 751-7501 or carrie@gpacweb.com.

 

IMAGES:         See attached

 

ARTIST WEB:   www.stevetyrell.com

 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

 

Grammy Award winning vocalist Steve Tyrell spent four decades as a songwriter, producer and performer. Born in Texas, he moved to New York City at the age of 18, where he was made head of artist repertoire and promotion at Scepter Records.  He was only 19 years old when he first began producing with music greats Burt Bacharach and Hal David. He worked on several

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Dionne Warwick hits such as "The Look of Love," and "Alfie." Together with B.J. Thomas, they

made the Bacharach-David song, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" into a 1969 Oscar winner for Best Song From a Movie (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). He has lent his musical expertise to over 40 films and countless television projects. His contributions to the film industry include Mystic Pizza, Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw, Father of the Bride and The Brady Bunch Movie. Since the end of the 1990s, he has made several albums based on jazz, holiday and Disney standards.

 

Steve Tyrell's music career was mostly behind-the-scenes while he produced hits for popular recording artists and award-winning movie soundtracks. Tyrell's distinctive voice singing "The Way You Look Tonight" from the Father of the Bride soundtrack propelled him center-stage as a vocalist, with live performances and a recording career of his own.

 

With sold out shows across America and raves from around the globe as a result of his recent sold-out world tour, his following increases day by day. Steve recently made his first appearance with the famed Boston Pops and at the request of the Sinatra family, Steve was the featured performer at the Hollywood Bowl season opening concert at which Frank Sinatra was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.  It was a signature event and a major success. With the encouragement of music legend Quincy Jones and the Sinatra family, plans were hatched for an album of Frank's material. This is one of the few times the Sinatra family has reached into the vault of original Sinatra arrangements to share with another artist. With some of the greatest musicians in the world playing some of the greatest songs of all time on this recording, "Songs of Sinatra" will be an album that audiences will want to hear again and again and again.

 

Delivering the standards (such as "I've Got a Crush on You," "Georgia On My Mind," and "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To") in his uniquely soulful manner, Tyrell brings an invigorating freshness to his interpretations of American classics. "We don't think it's right if we can't bring something fresh to these wonderful songs that some of the greatest artists of all time have already done definitive versions of," Tyrell says, explaining his approach to the music.

 

Yet even with three major albums in four years, extensive touring, and nationally-televised appearances including an NBC July 4th Special and "Christmas In Washington," Tyrell remains a mystery vocalist to many. His success and growing popularity is almost entirely due to word-of-mouth from enthusiastic fans who share the wonderful discovery of his music & songs with their friends. Tyrell's latest albums, Songs of Sinatra and Back To Bacharach, broaden his exposure in contemporary pop, with an appeal that crosses the generations. "People have told me over and over that they can put my albums on and play the whole thing from start to finish," says Tyrell. "But of course, I'm singing the greatest songs ever written!"

 

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