For those unaware, raised in Los Angeles, Amber Weekes was “born singing” in her parents’ musical household. At four, she stepped onto her first stage, the living room coffee table in her childhood home.

The daughter of singers from Harlem, Weekes’ home oozed with the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Barbara Streisand, Diahann Carroll, The Beatles, Leontyne Price, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nancy Wilson.

Generations earlier, her grandparents, Wilfred and Nettie Weekes served musical giants Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and many others inside Weekes’ Luncheonette in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem.

These famous patrons left their musical mark on the family. It was just a matter of time before Weekes would step into and fully claim her musical inheritance.

At 14, Weekes was promised vocal lessons, but her parents could not afford them so she joined the church’s adult choir to use her voice. After college, she began to study voice, singing with L.A. greats Gwendolyn Wyatt, Phil Moore, Jr., Catherine Hansen, Sue Fink, and most notably, three-time Grammy nominee Sue Raney for the past 20 years.

Raney helped Weekes discover her true singing talent by showing her how to use her beautiful voice to tell stories deeply through music and lyrics.

All of Amber’s albums have gotten coast-to-coast airplay at hundreds of radio stations, including Alaska and Hawaii, and international play in the UK, France, Italy, Estonia, Canada, Argentina, and Australia.

Her brand new album continues to draw inspiration from a rich personal journey rooted in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Entitled A Lady With A Song, it features 13 soulful tracks celebrating the legendary Nancy Wilson.

1. My Gentleman Friend
2. Save Your Love For Me
3. Guess Who I Saw Today
4. Ten Good Years
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. You’re Gonna Hear From Me
7. A Lady With A Song
8. Wasn’t It Wonderful

The new recording opens on the furtively playful My Gentleman Friend and the heartwarming Save Your Love For Me and they are backed by the impassioned Guess Who I Saw Today, and the smooth grooved Ten Good Years.

Along next is the uplifting The Best Is Yet To Come and the profound You’re Gonna Hear From Me, the album rounding out on the all-encompassing A Lady With A Song, coming to a close on the joyously sweeping Wasn’t It Wonderful.

www.amberweekes.com