The Jazz, Folkie Pop & Blues Kid

Anthony Everest's - Other Musical influencies include:

Membership: Musician's Union

Singer/Songwriter: All kinds of music but, expressively, Jazz (Swing), Blues, Soul, Folk, Pop, Gospel.

Artistes like *Billy Holliday*, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James. Sarah Vaughn, Cathy Edgar, Peggy Lee, Jimmy Scott, Rat Pack, Norah Jones, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey & Aretha Frankln have influenced the repatoire greatly.  

Amy Winehouse, Aereosmith and Coldplay, Guns N Roses, James Morrison, Brandy, Monica, Leona Lewis,  Dolly Parton, Louie Armstrong etc. Pavarotti & Andre Bocelli too are hot favourites.

Anthony Everest became the London UK, act to score a No1, on the UK Jazz Charts with "Follow Your Dreams" a self penned track, for 25 Weeks. At the same, he was No1 on the Global Jazz Charts for 8 weeks, beating major recording artistes to the top spot - like Jamie Cullum, James Morrison, Madonna and etc - on www.REVERBNATION.COM/ANTHONYEVEREST. He then went on to stay at No1 for a total of 25 weeks Oct 2008 to June 2009. No other artiste has achieved that to date.

Similarly, held then No1 Spot on the Reverbnation, UK R&B/Soul Chart for 4 weeks.

Anthony Everest, was alo the Top 20, on Myspace Jazz Charts, as a, Singer-Songwriter, with his own composition, Groomed For Stardom.

God Bless the Child by Billy Holliday, a composer / Jazz legend is one of Anthony's Jazz Favourite.

However, my all time favourite Jazz Ballad to sing and listen to is one of many, but this has always done it for me, Nina's version of My baby cares for me & Louie Armstrong's: What a Wonderful World. I do a unique version of them.

Billy Holliday and Jimmy Scott: are some of the likend artistes of our generation that Anthony Everest has been compared with. To find out more about Jimmy Scott, follow these links:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/jimmyscott/songs.html

http://www.npr.org/programs/btaylor/archive/scott.html

On the Gospel tip: Helen Baylor: "Highly Recomended" - is the first recording, I listened to, that compelled me to sing. After, Whitney Houston's Video clip of "Run To You" from the body guard movie. Both were my frist No1 sources of inspiration. But I still think its what I make of it ....

I can not forget church of course and the spiritual source of all great things with depth. I started this all in the church.

Those artistes were the first two who freaked me out as a child and left a long lasting impression of music and the magic of it, on me, to make me find myself - ultimately.

I've written a lot of songs, lately and performed some of my new and old songs, publicly, since I've picked up the keyboard, ranging from Jazz, to blues, Soul and Pop. Its such a liberation.

After my boyband days at PWL, I think I have finally found the light at the end of the tunnel.

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