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DeeAnn - “Simply Beautiful” is a sensual, deep soul musical revelation


Continuing to build momentum after the success of her sultry 2024 breakthrough single “Stay Here With Me,” DeeAnn’s 2025 is off to an exciting and inspiring start, with the multi-talented singer/songwriter receiving numerous well-deserved accolades in her hometown of Buffalo, New York’s 10th Annual “JazzBuffalo” musical greats poll. She was awarded “Jazz Female Vocalist of the Year”, receiving the most votes for her still-popular 2023 album “It’s My Time”, and was chosen runner-up for “Most Memorable Performance” and the “John Hunt Jazz Artist of the Year” Award.

With a title that truly captures the optimistic vibes she’s currently feeling in her life, DeeAnn’s new single “Simply Beautiful,” (set for release April 4th), is more than a sensual, deep soul bluesy twist on an early 70’s Al Green song from his landmark #1 Billboard album “I’m Still in Love with You”. It’s a dynamic extension of her vocal, a musical revelation that launches a powerful collaboration with her new producer Ted Perlman, and lays the foundation for her upcoming album featuring both originals and re-imaginings of classic songs from various eras.

Working with Perlman puts DeeAnn in the classic company of the multi-genre greats he has produced, arranged, recorded, and toured with over the past five decades - including Burt Bacharach, Whitney Houston, Manhattan Transfer, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Ronald Isley, Jermaine Jackson, Edwin Hawkins, CeCe Winans, Brian Wilson, Dr. Dre, Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, Joe Cocker, Chicago and Young MC. DeeAnn recorded the new project with Perlman at “Highway 70 Sound” & “Station West” in Nashville, and “Intercoastal Sound” in West Palm Beach, Florida with Perlman producing, engineering and contributing his emotionally searing electric guitar vibe alongside some of Music City’s heaviest hitters – pianist/organist Jody Nardone, bassist Jonathan Nixon, drummer Brian Czach, and singers Moe Loughran, Damian Horne, and Larysa Jaye. In Florida they added singers Mary Babalola of Nigeria and Victoria Espinosa of Columbia.

DeeAnn is thrilled with how she and the band nailed “Simply Beautiful” in a single take. “You can feel the emotion the minute they start playing, and they were just killing it all the way through,” she says. “Ted and I had an immediate connection, and he really did his homework, listening to my voice and my previous recordings to get a sense of how he could help take me to the next level. He and a great friend of mine with a stake in my career both suggested I should record the song on my next album. I didn’t know the song as well as I knew other Al Greensongs and I fell in love with it instantly.”

DeeAnn is only too happy to drop some info on some of the other special tracks that will appear on her upcoming, as yet untitled album, which she describes as a hybrid of Straight-ahead Jazz, Smooth Jazz, R&B, Soul, & Neo-Soul. The collection will also include songs that pay tribute to the three lights of her life she has lost in recent years - her beloved son, brother, and dad.

DeeAnn is proud of her co-write with Perlman, “Sing To Me,” a song in a long line of gems throughout her career that tap into her reality as a hopeless romantic. She attributes her ability to remain optimistic even in the face of great losses to her strong faith in God.



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