He has performed at some of the worlds greatest venues including Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Avery Fisher Hall, The Apollo Theatre, The Ravinia Festival and The Kennedy Center. Wayne has played with many of today's current Jazz stars including Kurt Elling, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cyrille Aimee, and Post Modern Jukebox, and Pop stars like Taylor Swift, Elvis Costello, David Crosby, Matt Simons and Ne-Yo.
He is a 2009 graduate of the Jazz Studies program at SUNY Purchase under the direction of Todd Coolman. Wayne Tucker is a 30 year old Trumpet player/Composer/Arranger based in New York City. Vuyo Sotashe is currently performing around New York City with the praised drummer Winard Harper, who has performed with the likes of Betty Carter, Shirley Horn, and many other legends in jazz. Sotashe is also the winner of the biggest music scholarship competition in South Africa, the South African Music Rights Foundation Scholarship, where he performed for the former South African President Thabo Mbeki. He has also performed with Multi-Grammy Award winning gospel artist, Israel Houghton as part of New Breed (Africa) Ensemble. Vuyo Sotashe has also performed on international stages which include singing at the Arcevia Jazz Fest and the Fermo Jazz Festival in Italy 2012 the Stockholm Jazz Festival with South African National Youth Jazz Band in Sweden 2012 at the Cape Town International Festival with George Benson and the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra 2010 the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival 2012 and he has toured with the SAMA Award (GRAMMY equivalent) winning band Proxy in the UK and Ireland 2009-2011. In the same he placed third in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Vocal competition, where he was the very first male vocalist ever to place in the competition's finals. More recently, he won the Audience prize award and placed second over-all at the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition in 2015, held at the annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Since then, he has gone to win first prize at the very first Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Vocal Competition in 2014, and performed on the festival's main stage in February of 2015. Sotashe moved to the NYC in 2013 after being awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to pursue Master of Music (Spring 2015) at William Paterson University. Young South African jazz vocalist, Vuyo Sotashe, is gradually making his mark in the New York jazz scene. From New York she keeps setting the course for Soul music in Argentina” - Iñaki Duran, Buenos Aires, 2020 She has proved her immense versatility and plasticity to create different sounds, and with her second album ‘LoveChild’ she proved there are no limits for her and she’ll continue to expand the horizons for this genre.
The amount of vocalists from the new generation she has influenced, that follow and acknowledge her work, that respect and thank her for her music, are beyond our knowledge. ”Her 2016 album, Building Bridges and her talents as vocalist, composer and spiritual guide, made her one of the figures responsible for the resurgence of Soul Music in Argentina. “Sol Liebeskind’s soulful vocals have a high class to them that mix well with the urban breadth of her music, in a style similar to R&B NewYork City legend Alicia Keys” - Urban Deli Magazine, New York, 2019.
She has also collaborated with artists such as Alex Wandter (Chile), Emanero (Argentina), Tomi Morano (Argentina), Bocafloja (Mexico) and Hache ST (EEUU), and has played shows in cities around the world such as London, Paris and SanFrancisco. She has been an active recording artist and performer in New York during the past 6 years having performed at prestigious venues such as: Carnegie Hall, SOB’s, Brooklyn Bowl, National Sawdust, Trinity HipHop Festival, to name a few has been featured in BillboardMagazine, Paste Magazine. In 2016 she moved to New York City where she currently resides. She remains to be one of the most influential artists in theJazz/Soul scene from Buenos Aires, Argentina, having participated multiple times at the Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival (2011, 2014, 2015) been an artist in residence for a decade at the prestigious Argentinean Jazz venue Thelonious Club has released 4 albums as a solo artist (Soul Life Music Love in 2011, Building Bridges in 2016, Love Child in 2019, and Mucho Corazon in 2020) and has also performed at some of the most important music venues in Buenos Aires such as Teatro Colón, Usina del Arte, Teatro San Martin, Anfiteatro Parque Centenario, among many others. Argentinean born artist Sol Liebeskind started her musical journey in 2009.
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