Keri Noble

   
Artist: Keri Noble

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 How Far You've Come

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 4


   
 Fearless

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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For a few reasons -- all of them trivial -- Keri Noble has been compared to Norah Jones at times. Both of them ar romanticist, piano-playing singer/songwriters wHO were in their mid-twenties in the early 2000s, and both of them make ties to veteran soldier producer Arif Mardin; he produced Jones' smash Come Away With Me album, and Mardin is one of the executive director producers on Noble's debut album, Dauntless. But stylistically, Noble and Jones ar selfsame different artists -- and truth be told, Noble has practically more in common with Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, or sometime October Project isaac Merrit Singer Mary Fahl. Jones brings a definite malarkey influence to the table; she isn't a jazz isaac M. Singer per se, but is a pop singer wHO has been moved by wind, night club, Tin Pan Alley, and verbascum thapsus singing. Noble, however, is coming from more of an grownup alternative view; where Fearless is concerned, McLachlan's Clumsy Towards Ecstasy is a practically better comparability than Follow Away With Me. And piece Jones tends to be romantically consolatory, Noble's self-examining, vulnerable lyrics lav be obscure at times -- lyrically and melodically, Fearless is not a frightfully happy or cheerful album. Although Unfearing has a secular orientation, Noble grew up hearing to mostly Christian music. Born in Ft. Worth, TX, in 1977 and raised in Detroit, Noble is the girl of a Protestant government minister. Noble's sire was born and elevated in Peru before immigrating to the United States; piece the brobdingnagian legal age of Latinos ar Catholic, Noble's pop was the subgenus Pastor of a Spanish-speaking Baptist church building in the southwestern contribution of the Motor City. Meanwhile, Noble's mother likewise had a Christian prospect and taught Spanish at one of Detroit's Protestant heights schools. Noble tended to a Protestant heights school herself, but disdain her Christian bringing up, she didn't follow up on a life history in either gospel truth or modern Christian pop. Eventually, secular music became her main focus, and nonpareil person wHO tin can take away a stack of credit for that is Joni Mitchell. When Noble was in her late teens, somebody gave her a copy of Mitchell's Blue -- that 1971 definitive (which was recorded sextuplet age earlier Noble was innate) was her first exposure to Mitchell, and after falling in love life with Gamy, Noble got more and more into songwriting and became quite unplayful well-nigh pursuing a life history as a secular singer/songwriter.


Noble began performing her have material at lowly coffeehouses in and around Detroit, where she unremarkably attended herself on galvanising keyboards. Detroit was where Noble met musician Billy McLaughlin, wHO felt that she had serious potential and offered her work in Minneapolis. Noble terminated up moving to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, which she felt was a better environment for singer/songwriters than the Motor City. McLaughlin introduced Noble to producer Jeff Arundel, wHO helped her give away a demo -- and in 2003, she signed with Manhattan/EMI Records. Arundel was leased to bring forth and fix up Noble's debut album, Dauntless; Manhattan/EMI executives Arif Mardin and Ian Ralfini became the album's executive producers. Fearless was tending a March 2004 freeing date.