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Heaven Davis loves to sing!
She doesn’t
distinguish between styles, be it Soul, Rock,
Jazz, Blues or Country. “For me there are only
two types of music” she says. “The kind of music
I like and the kind that I don’t. There’s not
much of the later.”
In 2006 Heaven
released ‘Steamy’, a CD of Blues and Soul.
‘Steamy’ received critical acclaim from across
the globe. She was credited by Blues Review
with the claim that “An Atlanta singer updates
R&B for a new millennium”. A single ‘Regrets’
debuted on Billboards ‘Hot R&B/Hip Hop Sales
Chart at #4. ‘Destined to be a star’ one critic
said. That same year the CD made the final four
of the Blues Foundations’ “Best Self Produced
CD”.
Through her
early years Heaven performed in a number of
Funk, R&B and Pop bands discovering she loved
all types of music. It wasn’t until 1993 when
she took on a dare from a friend and answered an
ad in a local rag for a blues vocalist. That
led to Heaven fronting Atlanta Blues Band ‘Blue
Heaven’. Not having a lot of knowledge about the
music, she soaked up all she could find about
the music. “I didn’t think I knew a lot about
the genre but I knew I loved the way it made me
feel”, says Heaven. It showed in her
performance. Very soon Blue Heaven was covering
the local clubs and people were listening,
really listening. Offers started to come in to
perform outside of Atlanta and the band started
touring in the surrounding states.
Heaven was then invited to record a remake ‘You
Are My Sunshine” on a compilation CD for the
Shag Dance scene. The song shot to the top of
the Shag charts and remained there for over 15
months.
With album
sales in the US, Europe and Japan, the band name
may have changed known now simply as The Heaven
Davis Band, Heaven is now known on an
international level. Everyone keeps asking the
same question. “When’s the next CD coming
out?’ Although Heaven stays busy performing,
she’s working on the new CD. ‘I still have a
peach pie or two in the oven’, say Davis. It’ll
be out there for your eating pleasure soon”.
Some say that
she will be the blues voice of the future. Her
voice and style has been compared to many from
Betty Wright to Gladys Knight. Then they see the
rockier side come out while she’s doing a
Rolling Stones cover. There’s a lot pinned up
in that 5’3’ frame. She’ll always surprise you
with the unexpected.
A Heaven Davis
performance live or on CD was best summed up by
a critic who said; ”If she [Davis}] gigs near
you anytime soon then steal, rob, lie & do
whatever it takes in order to be there”. |
