Jazz
guitarist and vocalist Nick Colionne
has once
again been nominated as International
Instrumental
Artist of the Year by the Canadian Smooth Jazz
Awards.
Nick won this prestigious award in 2007,
succeeding
Chris Botti. Last year's winner (2008) was
guitarist
Peter White. The Fifth Annual Awards
ceremony will
be held April 24, 2009 at Hammerson Hall at the
Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive,
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and televised
live.
Co-chair of the Awards, Mary
Kirk, from
The Wave 94.7 Hamilton/Toronto,
singled out
Nick's latest CD, "No
Limits" on Koch Records, his
impressive tour
schedule and his collaboration with other
artists in
this nomination, particularly his outstanding
work on
Maysa's new CD "Metamorphosis", where Nick's
distinctive guitar work is featured twice.
BEST OF 2008 LISTS
It's been a
great
week for Colionne - his CD "NO
LIMITS" was named in the TOP TEN for 2008 by
Smooth
Jazz News; his single "No Limits" made
#11 on
iTunes Best Smooth Jazz Songs list for
2008, and
now, this prestigious nomination.
More About Colionne
Colionne
joined
the ranks of today's premier
jazz artists with his Top Ten 2003 Album
"Just
Come On In" that included the mega-hits "High
Flyin" and "It's Been Too Long". His 2006
release "Keepin' It Cool" propelled him to
the top of the charts once
again with the Top Ten hit singles "Always
Thinking of You", "Keepin'
It Cool" and "If You Ask Me". "Keepin' It
Cool" was also named Top Ten CD of the
Year for 2006.His latest CD "NO LIMITS"
on the
prestigious
KOCH Records label was released in July
2008,
with
the first single, the title track "NO
LIMITS", currently climbing the charts.
Colionne titled
his new project "NO LIMITS" to describe
where he is in terms of his music saying "the
project "NO LIMITS" is my latest
adventure. I call it an adventure because I
wanted to explore doing some different things
with my music and not limit myself to one
genre or style of playing". Colionne teamed
up with two Grammy-award winning writers for
the CD:
Jim Peterik who wrote "The Eye Of The
Tiger", the theme from the film "Rocky", and
Paul Richmond who wrote "Shining Star" for
the Manhattans.
Coming of age on Chicago's
West Side, Colionne
began playing professionally in rock bands at
15, and
has performed with
some of the legendary R&B icons of our time
including Natalie Cole, Al Green, The
Impressions,
Curtis Mayfield and The Staples Singers. The
recipient of the Malcolm X College Alumnus of
the
Year Award, (he earned his degree there in
music),
Colionne has devoted much of his spare time
over the
past twelve years to mentoring children at a
suburban
Chicago K-8 school, and giving clinics and
lectures directed towards youth as he tours
the country.
Nick Colionne is also an endorsee for
Epiphone Guitars & Gibson Strings &
Accessories as well as prestigious
clothier
Stacy
Adams
and is featured in both of their national
advertising
campaigns.
According to Nick, "The most
exciting part of all of this
for me is that I am actually living my dream,
getting a
chance to perform for people around the
world, The
greatest moments come when I look at their
faces in
the audience when I play, and I realize that
I'm making
them feel what I'm feeling. That's a
fascinating level of
communication".
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