Biography
Adrienne Osborn is a vocalist who sings in varied styles including pop, jazz, soul, and electronica. She is also a lyricist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (keys, bass, and percussion), writing and recording original songs with musicians all over the US and the world.
She also loves to help improve the music careers of people around her by giving what she can best: voice and performance coaching. She teaches voice and performance skills to students in Colorado and around the world via Skype, including American Idol participants as high as the top six, and various professional musicians. She is affiliated with Tom Jackson Productions / Onstage Success in Nashville, and teaches Tom Jackson's Live Music Method for live performance.
Adrienne's published discography includes Oceans Closer (2011), a full-length jazz standards and originals album with UK violinist Pete Hartley; The Phoenix, The Flame, a full-length album with funk-rock project STAR (spontaneous thin air radio), including a video for the single “Star Shine,” and a 2010 EP with Soulful World Jazz trio Dois. In 2010 she released an instructional 2-DVD set entitled The Zen of the Stage: Performing in the Zone, which is available on Amazon.com. Her current projects include an orchestral/jazz/world/electronica collaboration with Christian Grimshei of Rabiang Records in Thailand, a full-length album co-write with composer Panos Kolias, and collaborations with several different composers for various music libraries.
Adrienne is currently the lead vocalist for modern party music band Urban Dance Theory and the bassist for rock band Driving Karma. In the past, she has performed vocally with – and in some cases, founded and managed – Spontaneous Thin Air Radio (original soulfully energized funk rock), Girls on Top! (funk/R&B/Motown), Bola Abimbola and Wazobia (Afropop / King Sunny Ade), Dois (soulful world jazz), That 80's Band (80's cover tunes), and The Fever (wedding cover band), among others. She also was the keyboard player for the Jagermeister-sponsored live karaoke band Guitar Villians. Her performance highlights include performing on the main stage at the Telluride Jazz Festival with Bola Abimbola, playing at two “Jager Idol” competitions, and playing at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis with That 80's Band. She was also a percussion member of a very loud and very fun Brazilian bateria based in Boulder, and has done her share of a cappella singing.
In previous lives, Adrienne was an exchange student in Bilbao, Spain for a year; a national-champion world-ranked waterskier for 15 years; and an IT professional in web development and project management for 12 years.
Adrienne is married to Micah McKee and lives in Boulder, CO.