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| Award to Zakiya Hooker Boogie With The Hook Records Inc is pleased to announce that Zakiya Hooker was awarded on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame & Awards Show - "Blues CD of the Year" for Keeping It Real. We are also pleased to announce that Zakiya's drummer Marlon Green won for "Blues Drummer of the Year"! Zakiya has also been nominated in two categories for the 2010 Jus' Blues Music Awards show to be held in August 2010 in Memphis, Tennessee for Contemporary Blues Artist - Female and Contemporary Blues Song of the Year - "Love Foreclosure" from KEEPING IT REAL on Boogie With The Hook Records! When a woman sings the blues it is the most natural rhythm on the planet. Who else better to know and express the anguish of love and pain or the rollercoaster ride of joy and despair than a woman who has the full experience of marriage, the intimate knowledge of motherhood and the intuitive gift of survival at her fingertips. Boogie With The Hook Records is pleased to announce that "Keeping It Real" is on the Roots Music Report, Real Blues Top 100 Chart and "Keeping It Real" has been receiving world wide airplay and is being played on Sirius/XM Radio Bluesville. We want to thank all the stations for continuing to spin the CD. WE appreciate your support! See Zakiya's booking information below. Zakiya Hooker brings all this to the table and more with her fourth CD KEEPING IT REAL, on independent label, Boogie with the Hook Records. As the daughter of the late, great blues icon, four-time Grammy winner John Lee Hooker, who better to keep it real than Zakiya? The blues sangin' songstress literally has the music flowin' through her veins. KEEPING IT REAL is a sassy, soulful serenade of thirteen tracks that span the spectrum of the landscape of the blues.The results are an expansive project that find her not only performing a duet with her dad, but also covering a few classics and ultimately, singing the blues in Spanish! KEEPING IT REAL does just that with the opening track "Hug U Kiss U, " an upbeat, up-tempo, bass heavy cover of a John Lee Hooker original. On "Cold, Cold Feeling" she slows the pace way down with a blues notion of love lost and gone astray. With "Desconfio" Zakiya proves that she is not new to the blues, but indeed true to the blues, offering her own Spanish language rendition of the Latin American classic. The vocals of the late Blues Legend John Lee Hooker himself provide the lead segue for the haunting "End of the World Blues, " on track six. While covering one of her dad's most famous tunes, "One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer" Zakiya rocks with the assuredness of one who knows her roots and knows them well! She takes us "Over the Top" with a purity of tone that simply cradles the heart with emotion on track eleven. Then Zakiya all but shuts it down on the last track when she joins her late dad for a duet on "Rock These Blues Away." The Detroit native made her debut performance in 1991 with her dad in Oakland, CA. She has since gone on to perform and record nationally and internationally, establishing her own voice in a genre dominated by men. A loyal advocate of the blues, Zakiya is committed to preserving the legacy that nourished her. In addition to touring nationally and internationally, she is a spoken word performer advocating this original American art form. Zakiya Hooker is a regal combination of sass and soul. KEEPING IT REAL is a defining contribution to her legacy as a woman singing the blues. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |