Shameem Taheri-Lee, dubbed Australia’s answer to Alicia Keys, is performing a landmark show in her young career at The Ellington Jazz Club at 6:30pm on Saturday December 5th. 2010 has been a busy year for this motivated young artist, who has been promoting her recently released EP “Universe for Afternoon Tea” in her home town […]
Young jazz-pop diva Shameem Taheri-Lee will perform her last major gig at the Ellington Jazz Club on December 5 before she dedicates 2011 to national touring, recording an album and jetting to the UK to write with Nelly Furtado collaborator James Byran. The producer discovered Taheri-Lee’s music online and invited her to travel overseas to […]
This Sunday will see a slightly new choice for music lovers in Geraldton, with the first of hopefully many monthly jazz sessions at L’Attitude 28 Bar. I was recently in Perth helping install the A Day in Pompeii exhibition at the WA Museum. I took the opportunity to check the recently opened Ellington Jazz Bar […]
Check out the podcast of my interview with Helen Matthews from RTR fm. Radio Interviews by Shameem Taheri-Lee
The long-awaited early evening show at the Ellington is coming up fast… Enjoy Shameem’s delicious spread of smooth grooves while you chill out after a hot day with cool drinks and the Ellington’s fine tapas menu. As always, there will be funky originals, some more familiar tunes and some brand new music, straight off the […]
BLOG ENTRY 15/11/10 So I’m in limbo right now… waiting to see if grants come through for WA tour (planned for February) and the songwriting trip to the UK (planned for May). Hate this waiting! I’ve decided that if I don’t get the funding for the WA tour, that I’ll cut the tour in half […]
Shameem Taheri-Lee will launch her first album this Friday at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood. Taheri-Lee (21) is building a name for herself as a jazz singer, having performed professionally since 2004 and currently completing a jazz composition course at WAAPA. Earlier this year, she was also a finalist in the prestigious James Morrison Generations […]
Up-and-coming jazz singer Shameem Taheri-Lee had huge singing ambitions as a child growing up in Perth. “When I was a kid I grew up on the Thriller album by Michael Jackson and my dream was to do a duet with him one day,” she says. Although she will never get a chance to perform her […]
Perth’s creative jewel, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, has trained start like Hugh Jackman and Frances O’Connor. Always on the lookout for tomorrow’s stars, Perth Woman brings you the WAAPA graduates who are turning heads around the world… Shameem – Jazz Singer From early on Shameem begged her uncle, a piano teacher, for […]