Sharon Lange
From the urban underground, Sharon Lange is a
lifetime award winning lead performer known for a dynamic five octave voice,
and a multi awarded singer songwriter, choreographer, musician and producer. An inspiring energetic young woman, Sharon
Lange challenges the norm while singing her heart out to achieve her dreams and
owns her own record label.
United States Singer Songwriter:
Contemporary Urban Neo Soul:
Pop R&B Reggae Hip Hop

Short Bio
Since a preteen,
Sharon Lange’s self directed her lead vocal and dance act of soulful pop
songs receiving standing ovations.
From a Cleveland public high school, she
received lead theater awards in the highest theater performance competitions
across the state of Ohio
for high school students. Sharon studied music, classical opera voice performance
and human services at Cleveland
State. She transferred to
New Mexico State,
known for its voice department, where she received a lead voice performance
award in classical opera at annual competitions for universities across the
state of New Mexico,
the highest competitions for voice majors. She also directed her soulful pop
act for university events as a solo artist and as the leader of a female reggae
vocal group and instrument ensemble called Sharon Lange’s Harmony
Sisters. And in college, she laid the plans for a non profit organization that
would later become a charity support called Sharon Lange’s Music for the
People.
Sharon was scouted to
move to Colorado,
where she set out as a solo artist, founded her non profit organization and
started a business as an independent artist. She instantly became a band lead
singer and songwriter, touring for five years with diverse regional urban
R&B, Hip Hop, reggae, rock, black Gospel and jazz bands. Simultaneously,
she served as each bands’ harmony director and continued as the leader of
her female group, Harmony Sisters.
Harmony Sisters plays their own vocal and instrument ensemble, sings
with bands, sings a cappella, provides back up harmony for regional bands, and
sings for charity.
Next,
Sharon Lange developed her own label, continuing to work solo as a singer
songwriter. As an independent artist with a diverse fan base crossing ethnic,
cultural and economic lines, she’s achieved nine grant awards over the
past five years where she resides from nationally recognized arts organizations
and local teen organizations: The
Boulder County Arts Alliance, The City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Board,
and the City of Boulder Arts
Commission.
She’s produced several solo demos receiving work. At her shows, you can hear her playing
acoustic guitar, keyboard and classical flute. In addition to writing songs, she
composes her own arrangements. With a studio, street and professional dance
background, she choreographs urban Hip Hop pop show with world influences. In addition, Sharon books professional women for her group
Harmony Sisters.
Sharon's developed
programs benefiting local and national charities. She’s reached thousands of at risk
and underprivileged middle school and high school age young people with her
music at youth centers, youth group homes and meetings backstage at
concerts. She’s also
performed for over thirty local and national charitable concerts (i.e. Martin
Luther King Day, American Disaster Relief, women’s health concerts, earth
day and many others) and assisted in several of these concert productions.
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHY
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CHILDHOOD
Born in Cleveland, Sharon Lange is the granddaughter of a classically
trained pianist and the daughter of a trombone hobbyist/professional computer
programmer. At age five, Sharon began performing
as the youngest church concert choir member and youngest competing solo ice
dancer. During elementary school, Sharon
sold magazines to buy her first radio and was a scouted model for JC
Penny’s multi ethnic spreads.
She break danced to the new sounds of Hip Hop with friends, improvised
on her grandmother’s piano and performed as the elementary school first
chair flutist and band soloist.
During the summers, Sharon was musically
disciplined by conductor of the Cleveland
orchestra, Jahja Ling, while she babysat his children. With the money she made, she recorded at
an amusement park at age eleven. At
age twelve, Sharon
was directing her own act for talent shows - performing as group leader, lead
singer and dancer choreographer of popular music including covering soul singer
Gladys Knight, receiving standing ovations.
In high school, Sharon progressed as a versatile Cleveland
entertainer and was awarded by the state of Ohio, with the highest competitions' award
that high school students can achieve for lead theater performance. From age
fourteen, Sharon
worked in restaurants to buy costumes for her performances. She was the soloist of the
school’s main choir and small all-star female dance pop show choirs, the
first chair soprano, four year state all-star choir member, first soprano of
small harmony groups, lead actress of high school plays and a Cleveland youth
improve theater troop, cast in Cleveland independent musical film, and the
group leader and lead singer of a female pop vocal duet. Sharon
achieved Thespian. She was also
entered into a state theater competition by a high school teacher,
subsequently, winning one of the highest performance awards that a high school
student can achieve in individual and duet for Ohio, winning two years in a row.
UNIVERSITY
At Cleveland State
University, Sharon studied music, mass media production
and communication. She transferred to New Mexico State
University to study classical
voice performance and human services.
During her time in college, Sharon worked
as a scouted model for a Cleveland
modeling agency, as an usher at a major music venue and at a charity where upon
requests she played the first pop & folk songs she wrote, singing with her
acoustic guitar. For extra
curricular activities, Sharon cast in a leading
role for a season of a college Cleveland
community television show and as a performance director of popular music for
university cultural events.
Whereas, Sharon
sang a cappella, with her guitar, and, as the group leader and lead singer of a
female classical pop reggae vocal and instrument ensemble called Sharon
Lange’s Harmony Sisters. On
the side, Sharon
learned dance moves from the Latin community at festivals in Jaurez Mexico
and Las Cruces New Mexico. Distinguishing Sharon, she received an award that classical
opera voice performance majors compete for at multiple universities’
annual statewide performance events - the highest competitions for voice
majors. And, Sharon achieved a degree in social work to
alleviate the conditions of those suffering from hardship with a focus on
working with women, children and non profit organizations, a degree she would
later use to found her non profit, Music for the People.
UNDERGROUND SCENE SOLO ACT AND BANDS
Sharon Lange was
scouted to move to Colorado
by a local music company, Michigan Mike Presents, which helped her start a
business as an independent artist.
She started singing as a soul reggae pop solo artist in the popular
music town of Nederland and as a guest performer at Denver’s largest
music awards, The Westward Music Awards, where she performed at the Denver
Fillmore Auditorium with the three-year winner R&B Hazel Miller Band. During that time Sharon’s jobs included solo
performance, voice instruction and helping a charity put on benefit shows.
Sharon became a band
lead singer and songwriter of diverse regional R&B, rock, reggae/dance
hall, Hip Hop, black Gospel and jazz bands for the next five years. She also served as each bands harmony
director and choreographer, and continued as the leader of her female group,
Harmony Sisters. Harmony Sisters,
plays their own vocal and instrument ensemble, sings with bands, sings a
cappella, provides harmony for regional bands, and, sings for charity. In
2000, Sharon was invited to join and perform
with Colorado’s
regionally awarded and largest local music business organization and R&B
band, the Colorado Music Association.
In addition, Sharon became an honorary
member of Denver’s
renowned for-fronting group, the Colorado Hip Hop Coalition. Sharon
was invited and bilaterally contracted for two years in 2002 with a new Boulder reggae group -
Jus Goodie and The Jah Family Band and Jah Family Productions. She became a member of one of Colorado’s oldest,
renowned and regionally awarded predominantly black Gospel choirs, Boulder
Second Baptist. And, she developed
a teen Hip Hop rock band called The Wasabies. While singing with the previous groups, Sharon developed a Denver
public high school female Hip Hop dance group with the Colorado Hip Hop
Coalition, performed dance with an authentic African female group of Bantaba Dance Studios for one of her early benefit jobs,
and choreographed for her vocal performances. During her time with the previous groups,
she was scouted to sing by eleven of their brother project’s band
leaders. Whereas, she performed a
dozen more band sets as lead singer, harmony singer and soloist as a guest or
work for hire for eleven other Colorado
regional bands, most often with Jus Goodie and her Jah Family Band mates. For example, Sharon
performed as harmony director and the first female soloist for one of Colorado’s most
popular reggae festivals, the Soul Rebel Festival. And, she performed as harmony group
leader, harmony composer, band soloist, African harmony singer, and lead singer
songwriter for sets with two authentic African Caribbean reggae bands: The Pendo Moja Band with players from
Jamaica and Africa, and,
Bongo Love’s Zula Zula
Band preserving his tribe’s music from Zimbabwe. Sharon’s
performed hundreds of different songs and her original material across Colorado, often as a
regular, at over seventy underground music night clubs, performance centers,
large A-list music venues, and at a church down the street form where she
resides.
Next in 2005, Sharon continued working
solo as a singer songwriter and with her solo show. As an independent artist she’s achieved
nine grant awards from nationally recognized arts organizations and local teen
organizations over the past five years:
The Boulder County Arts Alliance, the City of Boulder
Arts Commission, and the City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Board. Her newest accomplishment is starting
her own record label. With her
label she currently tours solo, with her group Harmony Sisters, and plans to
release a self produced solo album at the end of 2008. You may hear Sharon playing acoustic guitar, keyboard or
classical flute. And, with a
diverse lifetime studio and street dance background, she choreographs urban Hip
Hop pop show with world influences.
CHARITY
In college, Sharon laid the plans for
the non profit she incorporated upon graduation called Sharon Lange’s
Music for the People to benefit charities in the cities where she lives
(formerly Unity Music). Since
graduation, she’s performed for over thirty local and national charitable
events in Colorado
(i.e. Martin Luther King Day Celebrations, Red Cross American Disaster Relief, Earthday, women’s health concerts, and many
others.). And, she’s assisted
several organizations in the production of these concerts. In addition, every month for the past
five years, Sharon visits groups of at-risk and
underprivileged middle school and high school age youth at group homes and
youth centers in Boulder Colorado to improve their quality of life
with music. And, when Sharon visits her family where she was raised in Cleveland Ohio,
she is a musical guest at an elementary school for inner city kindergartners.
UNDERGROUND
RECORDING DOCUMENTATION:
Sharon Lange and Colorado Reggae Bands with Jus Goodie &
Jah Family Acoustic and Electric 2002-2003 15 Tracks
Sharon Lange and the Best of Her Harmony Sisters (Featuring Sandra and Kate) 1999-2003 14 Tracks
Sharon Lange Live on the Denver R&B Funk Jazz
Band Scene, Solo A capella, and Acoustic 2001 12
Tracks
Harmony and Solo for Colorado Reggae, Rock and Gospel
Bands & Ensembles 2002-2004 26 Tracks
*Sharon’s vocal talent is
published underground with diverse regional Colorado bands from 2000 – 2004 on
over 175 different songs.
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