Watkiss biography
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Charmaine Watkiss:
Legacy
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Cleveland Watkiss
British vocalist, actor, and composer, educator
Cleveland Watkiss MBE | |
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| Born | (1959-10-21) 21 October 1959 (age 65) Hackney, England |
| Genres | Rock, jazz, soul, Drum & Bass/ Jungle |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, piano, guitar |
| Website | clevelandwatkiss.co.uk |
Musical artist
Cleveland Watkiss, MBE (born 21 October 1959), is a British vocalist, actor, and composer.
Biography
[edit]Cleveland Watkiss was born in Hackney, East London, to Jamaican parents, and was one of nine children.[2] He is the older brother of pianist Trevor Watkis (and the different spelling of their surname is deliberate).[3][4]
At age 16, he won twice in a local singing talent competition, hosted by "FatMan" of FatMan Sound System (North East London Based Roots, Reggae & Dub Sound System).
Watkiss studied at the London School of Singing with opera coach Arnold Rose and subsequently at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Lionel Grigson.[5] Watkiss was one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors big band, and his vocals can be heard on their debut album, Out of Many People (1987), which won a video award in Japan. Watkiss was then entered for the Wire/Gua
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Charmaine Watkiss
Charmaine Watkiss, completed her MA in Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art, 2018. Her work is concerned with what she calls ‘memory stories’.
She creates narratives primarily through research connected to the African Caribbean diaspora, which is then mapped onto female figures. She draws herself as a conduit to relay stories which speak about a collective experience; starting with an idea, then allowing intuition and a dialogue with the work to take over. Her practice addresses themes including, ritual, tradition, ancestry, mythology and cosmology. Since her first gallery solo show The Seed Keepers in 2021 with Tiwani Contemporary; Charmaine has been investigating the herbal healing traditions of Caribbean women, especially those of her mother’s generation, and connecting those traditions through colonisation back to their roots in Africa. Her recent 6 week residency in Charente south west France at Launchpad LAB; enabled her to explore nature and ecology in a more focussed way and to combine drawing with making sculptural forms.
Her recent exhibitions include: The Wisdom Tree, her first institutional solo show at Leeds Art Gallery; Drawing attention: emerging British artists group show at the British Museum; and Breakfast Under the Tree, curated by Russel