Crystal Bright
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Crystal Dawn Bright |
| Born |
April 9, 1981 Annapolis, Maryland United States |
| Genres | World music, folk, jazz, Flamenco, Cabaret, Mariachi, Brazilian Samba, Balinese gamelan, Chinese, Indonesian, Ugandan |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music teacher, performance artist, theatrical director & producer, holistic health coach / nutritionist |
| Instruments | Vocals, musical saw, accordion, keyboards, concertina, adungu, bombo, zheng, piano, guitar, vihuela |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Website |
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Crystal Dawn Bright (born April 9, 1981) is an award-winning musician and multimedia artist from Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music teacher, performance artist, theatrical director & producer, and holistic health coach / nutritionist. As founder and leader of the band Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands, she has released three studio albums and one live album, been reviewed internationally, and performed with the North Carolina Symphony. She won the North Carolina Symphony's Triangle Talent Search in September 2010 and released an award-winning music video in October 2011. The local YES! Weekly named her Best Singer in March 2012, Best Songwriter in May 2014, and Best Musician in the Triad in May 2015. She possesses a wide vocal range and plays many instruments. Her music has been called "carnival folk, fairytale pop and gypsy jazz" and was described by the BBC as "a pleasant kind of bonkers."
Bright was born in Annapolis, Maryland and raised in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, where she began taking music lessons at the age of seven. After performing in numerous high school musicals, Bright studied Drama before earning a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She then earned a Master's degree in Ethnomusicology from Florida State University while performing in a variety of genre-spanning acts.
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