About

Mary Davis Jr. – her voice sounds like her name: warm, soulful and in a way a little familiar, like you’ve heard her sing sometime before, but you can’t remember where or when. It’s sweet, but with an edge and surprisingly bright. Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Mary Davis has been working on her music for the past few years, performing at many venues and festivals throughout the country, gaining experience while being surrounded by numerous accomplished musicians. In 2009 she released her first EP called “Lovin’ It”. Mary Davis followed that up with organizing a small tour, playing on different pop and jazz stages and appearing in various radio shows.

Brought up in a musical environment, Mary started singing at a very young age. She loved -and still does- to listen to old spirituals, r&b and jazz singers and this made her love for soul grow more and more. Once she discovered how to record, multi-track, and mix voices on the computer at the age of 14, her true love for recording vocal harmonies started to bloom. This is a distinct characteristic of her songs: the richly arranged background vocals.

Listening to jazz records from her father’s collection really opened her ears and eventually took her a step further, with her eventually deciding to develop her talent in jazz singing as well. This later led Mary to spend a short - but very inspiring - period getting private vocal study in New York city.

The combination of these various influences in her background are the roots of her own particular style; mixing the different music genres and creating something fresh. Mary Davis Jr. seems quite in her element in doing this and her knowing how to use it well makes her vocal style very captivating. Furthermore, she is no stranger to vocal improvisation, and ardently uses all the colors from her ‘musical palette’ to paint you a marvelous picture.

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