BAND: Gina French
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Many of Gina French's influences comes from a wide
range of genres, including U2, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos,
Sheryl Crow, Joan Osborne, Annie Lennox, and Earth
Wind and Fire, just to name a few. Her greatest vocal
influence stems from Bono of U2.Ginas original songs
have garnered airplay on several top Utah radio station's
local music shows, including X96 and KRCL 90.9. In 1997,
she entered Musician Magazine's Best Of The Unsigned
Bands (BUB) contest. Among 3,000 entrants, she was
chosen as one of 300 worldwide semi-finalists and the sole
Utah semi-finalist. In August of 1997, her debut CD,
Sacred Ground, was named as one of the Top 25 local
recordings by Salt Lake City Weekly newspaper.
A year later, her new song "Midnight Tracks" was chosen
to be showcased on Summerhays Music's compilation CD
Local Soundzz: Music For The Millennium, distributed
throughout the state. In July of 2000, Gina was invited to
appear as the local Utah opening act for The Girls Room
Tour, a Capitol Records tour featuring label artists Tara
MacLean, Shannon McNally, Kendall Payne and Amy
Correia. One month later, she was nominated as Best
Female Singer in Salt Lake City Weekly's annual music
poll. In October of 2000, Gina appeared as a performer for
the national Indiegrrl tour, an Internet-based network for
women musicians. The song - 'Hard Way' was voted Best
Female Vocals in Pop/Rock, week of 26 Apr. 2004,
Garageband.com - Reviewer's Picks Awards. In June of
2004, French and band appeared at the Utah Arts
Festival, coinciding with Of Raptures release. August of
2004, 'Of Rapture' was included in Salt Lake City
Weeklys annual SLAMMy Top 50 Local CDs. In October
2004, French was a Featured Artist on Indie-Music.com. In
Garageband.com's Reviewer's Picks Awards, the song 'Of
Rapture' was voted Best Female Vocals #25 - All time in
Jan. and Feb.of 2005. Gina was also chosen to be the
Artist of the Week on the Independent music website -
Music 75, for the week of March 21st, 2005.
www.music75.com. Most recently, her song, "Of Rapture",
hit #1 in the KIAC Big 50's chart in October - 2005 and
where some of her songs are featured on the many IAC
stations,
http://independentartistscompany.com/artist.aspx?id=17170
. Also, in August of 2005, Garageband reviewers chose
the song, "Midnight Tracks" as "Track of the Day", and
voted it Best Female Vocals for 3 straight weeks in the
Blues genre -
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkZ1S
zYGw. Gina's song, "Of Rapture" was awarded a Golden
Kayak award in April 2006 for the World genre.
range of genres, including U2, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos,
Sheryl Crow, Joan Osborne, Annie Lennox, and Earth
Wind and Fire, just to name a few. Her greatest vocal
influence stems from Bono of U2.Ginas original songs
have garnered airplay on several top Utah radio station's
local music shows, including X96 and KRCL 90.9. In 1997,
she entered Musician Magazine's Best Of The Unsigned
Bands (BUB) contest. Among 3,000 entrants, she was
chosen as one of 300 worldwide semi-finalists and the sole
Utah semi-finalist. In August of 1997, her debut CD,
Sacred Ground, was named as one of the Top 25 local
recordings by Salt Lake City Weekly newspaper.
A year later, her new song "Midnight Tracks" was chosen
to be showcased on Summerhays Music's compilation CD
Local Soundzz: Music For The Millennium, distributed
throughout the state. In July of 2000, Gina was invited to
appear as the local Utah opening act for The Girls Room
Tour, a Capitol Records tour featuring label artists Tara
MacLean, Shannon McNally, Kendall Payne and Amy
Correia. One month later, she was nominated as Best
Female Singer in Salt Lake City Weekly's annual music
poll. In October of 2000, Gina appeared as a performer for
the national Indiegrrl tour, an Internet-based network for
women musicians. The song - 'Hard Way' was voted Best
Female Vocals in Pop/Rock, week of 26 Apr. 2004,
Garageband.com - Reviewer's Picks Awards. In June of
2004, French and band appeared at the Utah Arts
Festival, coinciding with Of Raptures release. August of
2004, 'Of Rapture' was included in Salt Lake City
Weeklys annual SLAMMy Top 50 Local CDs. In October
2004, French was a Featured Artist on Indie-Music.com. In
Garageband.com's Reviewer's Picks Awards, the song 'Of
Rapture' was voted Best Female Vocals #25 - All time in
Jan. and Feb.of 2005. Gina was also chosen to be the
Artist of the Week on the Independent music website -
Music 75, for the week of March 21st, 2005.
www.music75.com. Most recently, her song, "Of Rapture",
hit #1 in the KIAC Big 50's chart in October - 2005 and
where some of her songs are featured on the many IAC
stations,
http://independentartistscompany.com/artist.aspx?id=17170
. Also, in August of 2005, Garageband reviewers chose
the song, "Midnight Tracks" as "Track of the Day", and
voted it Best Female Vocals for 3 straight weeks in the
Blues genre -
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkZ1S
zYGw. Gina's song, "Of Rapture" was awarded a Golden
Kayak award in April 2006 for the World genre.
Gina French
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