Etta cox bio
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Etta Cox a staple of Northside jazz
The enduring career of Etta Cox is one of successes, challenges, and interminable faith.
By Zach Armstrong
Photo by Kahmeela Friedson
Audiences in jazz clubs, huvudgata theaters, film screenings and social gatherings have found themselves entertained for decades by the immense singing and acting talent of Northside celebrity Etta Cox.
Cox, who was crowned the Northside Mardi Gras Queen, is best known for her jazz singing, performing various gigs in Pittsburgh alongside trombonist Al Dowe and his band. She and Dowe have also performed in Atlantic City and New York City, opening for big names including Ray Charles, Danny Glover, and Doc Severinsen.
In Pittsburgh, Cox has become a regular performer at the city’s most popular venues and clubs including the former James Street, Atria’s and Brown Chapel AME Church.
“Etta Cox has been a staple of the jazz program at City of asyl since the beginning,” said Abby Lember
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Juror's Biography: Etta Cox
Voted , Performer of the Year by the Post Gazette.
Co-owner of new Jazz Club, Dowe's on 9th.
With Gateway to the Arts for the past ten seasons, vocalist Etta Cox, along with the Al Dowe Quartet, has broght the jazz elements of syncopation, improvisation and scat singing to the ears of at least , of the region's school students. The children and ung adults who have seen her Gateway to Music School schema, "A Vocal Journey with Etta Cox," now have a far better understanding of the African-American influence on American music and how the hoot and holler songs of years ago are related to the rap music of today. Some of these same elements are traced in her second program with Al Dowe's group, "Bebop to Doo Wop."
Originally from St. namn, Missouri, and trained as a music educator, Etta was selected as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Pittsburgh by Pittsburgh Magazine for She was awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Music for by the P
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Etta Cox
JS: Today I have the pleasure of welcoming a woman who has blessed my life and entertained me and ministered to me many times. And that’s Etta Cox. Etta, welcome to the Urban Heroes program.
EC: Well, thank you so much.
JS: Well, it’s good to talk with you. So, as we’ve started off in all of our interviews, we’ll be transcribing this so people can read it. And also people will be listening. Tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do and things like that.
EC: I think people in Pittsburgh primarily know me as a jazz vocalist. But they may not know I’m a Christian first, and have been for many years. I’m not from Pittsb