In order to help promote the album, which dropped in June, I started doing a web show, “Meet Me in My Parlor,” and the first day, I had like 1,500 people online looking at it because there was nothing to do. Really the only outlet for everyone was the internet. We had planned a little bit of TV, but I didn’t have the budget that a large label would have for a much more established artist. I put everything on hold, and my team was like, ‘Well, this is bad, but it could be good.’ The thing is, now you’re on equal footing with everybody else that has introduced their music. When COVID-19 hit, it just hit me like it did everyone. The first single was supposed to drop in April. I think we ended up being one of the last music videos filmed in L.A. It was a big launch for me that had been planned for about three years. I own my own label, Honey Crystal Records. I did a great video with Emmy award-winning director Ali LeRoi for the first single off the new EP. I worked with Kendall Duffie down in Nashville, a wonderful producer, and a team of radio promoters, PR, and social media. It was going to be my big commercial release. Tracye Eileen: It’s Time is my third album, and it was really one I had made a huge investment in. However, you’ve said that that actually benefited you because a lot of things were on hold.
You had big release plans for your EP, It’s Time, and then the pandemic hit. Through that time, I continued to perform, and I got a residency at Buddy Guy’s Legends. I began to develop more of what I wanted to sound like and who I was as an artist. The second CD was Why Did I Say Yes? was the first original tune that I wrote and recorded, along with my keyboard player Tom Viatsas, and really began to start establishing myself as more of a soul-jazz artist. I packaged it commercially and used that to leverage and begin to book myself and the band in different places. We had a professionally produced CD that we worked on over that year. Love’s Journey was the first CD, and that was part of that year-long course. I did all the booking, the promotion, the website development as well as continuing to work on my craft. I have an MBA, so I was able to really take over the business of the band in building a music career. We played our first gig at the Hollywood Casino. All my musicians are amazing they’ve all been in the business for over 20 years. It’s a five-piece band I named the PTR Band. I still have all the same guys except for the drummer, and I later added a sax player. The owner of the school, David Bloom, put together my band in 2011. I took the class, and I promised myself and God that I would not stop until He said no. I studied at the Bloom School of Jazz, and after a couple of courses, they introduced a course to go from amateur to professional.
EILEEN SINGE PROFESSIONAL
That was to be a professional jazz singer. In 2009, I got divorced, and at that point, I said I’m just gonna do what I’ve always wanted to do and just kind of step out on faith. I continued to sing in the jazz band in high school and college, in church, weddings, funerals, and so forth. But when I sang, they were like, ‘We gotta have her.’ So they rewrote the play, and I got to be in all three casts just to sing “Over the Rainbow.” That was really the beginning. I was just so shy at the time that I couldn’t get the role of Dorothy. I was in a third-grade, three-cast play of The Wizard of Oz. Tracye Eileen: My first performance was actually at 8 years old. Please start by telling us the story of how you got started. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.ģ60°: You decided to pursue a professional music career after your divorce. In this exclusive interview, Eileen discusses her smooth fusion of jazz and R&B, songwriting, career goals, and more. That’s been on hold during the pandemic, but Eileen hopes to resume live performances later this year. 2 most added song to smooth jazz radio, right behind saxophonist Dave Koz, who we interviewed last fall.įor years, Eileen has had a residency at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago. Her latest single, “Sweeter With Time,” is currently the Billboard No. 2 on the UK soul charts and got play on SiriusXM’s Heart & Soul. The first single, “Now That We’re Here,” went to No. The Chicago native has enjoyed much success since the release of her EP It’s Time in June 2020. 360°Sound recently spoke with soul-jazz singer Tracye Eileen.
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