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Sharon Lange

Singer and Songwriter

From the urban underground of Ohio, New Mexico, and Colorado, Sharon Lange is a lifetime award winning lead performer known for a dynamic five octave voice and an eleven time professionally awarded regional independent artist based in Boulder Colorado. She owns Sharon Lange and Harmony Sisters Talent and Productions and has her own soulful pop rock R&B reggae jazz Hip Hop classical world sound. She produces her professional show of all original songs and covers reggae, soul/R&B, Latin, Gospel, rock, jazz, classical and theater songs. She is the founding member of a professional female group, The Harmony Sisters. In addition, Sharon has a dance choreography background of pop show Hip Hop and world influences, plays keys, acoustic guitar, classical flute, and produces her original songs and albums. She is currently recording a Holiday Album for her 2009 December tour and preparing to publish an original album with a signature style in 2010.

Ohio New Mexico Colorado

CHILDHOOD

Born in Cleveland, Sharon Lange is the great granddaughter and granddaughter of female piano players in Pittsburg from the Great Depression era and the daughter of a trombone hobbyist/professional computer programmer, her father. At age four, at her mother’s church in Cleveland, Sharon began performing full length summer concerts as the youngest church choir member. At five, she performed choreographed solo songs as an ice dancer at local ice rink shows. During elementary school, Sharon sold magazines to buy her first radio, worked as a scouted model for JC Penny’s multi ethnic spreads, improvised on her grandmother’s piano, performed concerts as the elementary school first chair flutist and band soloist, and sang Christmas carols receiving many tips from her neighbors. Her neighbor, a conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, offered her a job to baby-sit his children during the summers, musically disciplining her to manage his children’s music practice. With the money she made, she recorded at an amusement park at age eleven. At age twelve, Sharon directed 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.

From a public 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, she worked in restaurants to buy costumes for many shows. She was the soloist of the school’s main choir and small all-star female dance pop show choirs, choir first chair soprano, four year state all-star choir member in Columbus, 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 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 for Ohio duet and individual theater, winning two years in a row.

UNIVERSITY

At Cleveland State University, Sharon studied music, mass media and human services charity work and transferred to New Mexico State University, known for its voice performance department and Latin influence. During her time in college, Sharon worked as a scouted model for a Cleveland modeling agency, as an usher of CSU’s 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 directed her performances of popular music for university cultural events to filled theater seating in the ballroom, singing a cappella, with her guitar, and, as the group leader and lead singer of a female reggae vocal and instrument ensemble she started called Harmony Sisters. On the side, Sharon learned dance moves from the Latin community at festivals in Jaurez Mexico and Las Cruces New Mexico and sang spirituals as a street musician for tips as she traveled to and from Cleveland Ohio. Distinguishing Sharon, she received an award that classical opera voice performance majors compete for at multiple universities’ annual statewide New Mexico performance events in Albuquerque - 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. She began developing her At-Risk Youth Music Program at La Casa Inc., and, she began developing a non profit organization to support various local and national charity benefit concerts.

UNDERGROUND SCENE SOLO ACT AND BANDS

Upon graduation, 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 for tips at clubs as a soul reggae pop solo artist/songwriter in the popular music town of Nederland and as a guest 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 in Boulder County for weddings and special house party events, private voice instruction and helping a charity put on benefit shows.

In 2000, Sharon also became a band lead singer and songwriter of diverse regional Colorado R&B, rock, reggae, Hip Hop, black Gospel and jazz bands for the next five years and also served as each bands harmony director and choreographer, plus continued as the leader of her female group, Harmony Sisters (playing their own vocal and instrument ensemble, singing with bands, singing a cappella, providing backup harmony for regional bands, and, singing for charity). 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 Denver. 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, most renowned and regionally awarded predominantly black Gospel choirs and roots/contemporary band, Boulder Second Baptist. And, she developed a Boulder County teen Hip Hop rock band called The Wasabies. While singing concerts 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 Boulder Bantaba Dance Studios for one of her early benefit jobs, and choreographed for her vocal performances. Sharon was also scouted by eleven of her band mate’s 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 as the first female soloist for one of Boulder’s most popular reggae festivals, the Soul Rebel Festival. She also 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 in Boulder County, Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Aurora, at over seventy underground music night clubs, performance centers, music theaters, large A-list music venues and universities. She has also sung regularly at a church in Boulder down the street from where she resides and monthly at Boulder teen charities.

In 2005, Sharon continued working solo as a singer songwriter. She became Sharon Lange Talent and Productions, producing her solo show at Boulder community centers and Boulder concert venues, singing all original songs to covering R&B reggae soul Latin Gospel jazz and rock songs, and continuing her At-Risk Youth Music Project in Boulder Colorado. As an independent artist with a fan base crossing cultural, age and economic lines, Sharon’s achieved ten grant awards over the past seven years where she resides from the Boulder County Arts Alliance, The City of Boulder Arts Commission and the City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Board. Sharon is currently touring solo and with her group Harmony Sisters, and, is a part time voice instructor at Globalsound Studio in Broomfield.

CHARITY

In college, Sharon started her At-Risk Youth Music Program and laid plans for the non profit she incorporated upon graduation called Sharon Lange’s Music for the People to support charity concerts in the cities where she lives (formerly Unity Music). Since graduation, with her At-Risk Youth Music Program, she visits groups of middle school and high school age youth at group homes and youth centers in Boulder Colorado to improve their quality of life with music. She’s also performed for over thirty local and national charitable events in Colorado (i.e. Martin Luther King Day Celebrations, Red Cross American Disaster Relief, Earth Day, women’s health concerts, and many others.). In addition, she’s assisted several organizations in the production of these concerts. 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 Live Solo and with Harmony Sisters 2008 10 Tracks

Sharon Lange Live Solo 2006 10 Tracks

Sharon Lange and Colorado Reggae Bands with Jus Goodie & Jah Family Acoustic and Electric 2002-2003 15 Tracks

Sharon Lange and 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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