Pamela Hart

Pamela Hart believes in crowd-pleasing by establishing a set of songs that the audience will appreciate. Her performances usually end with a standing ovation for her compelling contributions.
Pamela will grace the stage with attire styles appropriate for the event, such as for example, she wore a dress sparkling white with silver accents for a Christmas Holiday performance. The sparkling quality of her voice matched her attire.

Pamela accepts audience requests, and engages them in her performance. She demonstrates her vocal variety, renders some selections with jazzy scats, a taste of bluesy melody, Spanish lyrics, or some Cuban calypso samplings. She demonstrates a richly trilling tongue roll in some of her songs.
She gracefully dances on stage with the music, her radiant voice, and showcases her effervescence and vocal range.

When off stage at events, she mingles with the crowd with her wonderful personality and attention to detail. Hart has been active in music for 20+ years and willingly contributes to the community, such as performance in the Women in Jazz Concerts Series and Workshops, expressing her graciousness and giving ways as well as her artistic endeavors, while always being admired by her resourcefulness in the community. She has significant performance credits by notable artists in the field.

Pamela is supported by her loving husband, Kevin, who is an expert sound engineer and manager. Kevin ensures Pamela's performance bookings exceed client expectations, presented with high quality and attention to detail. His expertise in mixing live audio sound only enhances Pamela's beautiful performances beyond her wonderful and natural talent by engaging along in the songs and mixing the sound as though he is an integral part of the band.

Pamela Hart is a beautiful woman who steals the heart of any music aficionado. Be prepared to shout “encore!”

Pamela Hart is highly regarded as Austin, Texas’ finest jazz vocalist. Noted by Austin Women’s Magazine as “Austin’s First Lady of Jazz,” audiences rave about Pamela’s excellent pitch, clarity and soothing vocal quality. “Her warm, clear tones and meticulously controlled pitch carry an illusion of effortlessness”--Tribeza Magazine. Her sultry rendition of classic jazz standards and contemporary music wins immediate acceptance by any audience. Born in Los Angeles, California, Pamela moved to Austin, Texas in 1982.

In addition to regular appearances at Austin clubs, restaurants, live music broadcasts, weddings, banquets/parties and festivals, Pamela and her husband Kevin Hart have produced (and she has performed in) the semi-annual Women in Jazz Concert Series—the greatest events for female jazz musicians in Texas—1994 through 2022. The series also includes a Vocal Performance Workshop where Pamela and other professional vocalists and musicians share performance techniques, communicating with musicians and many other aspects of jazz singing.

Pamela was inducted in the Austin Jazz Society Hall of Fame in 2018. Sheltered but not stifled during covid-19, she live stream a weekly Sunday House Concert Series on Facebook from March 2020through December 2020. She is the co-founder of the Women in Jazz Association, Inc., a 501©3 organization to keep jazz alive. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Texas Music Museum.

Her new CD “Happy Talk” is a collection of Pamela Hart’s favorite songs most of which she heard growing up in Los Angeles. It’s Pamela’s smooth vocals and personal approach to each song that grabs you and keeps you listening. This album takes you back to her good old days. Havea good time!

Throughout her singing career, Pamela has repeatedly opened shows for, and shared stages with, many popular artists including Miss Nancy Wilson (2000, 2001); David ‘Fathead’ Newman (1997, 2008); Dianne Reeves (1999, 2001); Kirk Whalum (1998); Rachelle Ferrell (2005); Patrice Rushen with Teri Lyn Carrington (2007); Joyce Cooling, Pamela Williams, Althea Rene (2009); Norman Brown and Richard Elliot (2011); Bobbi Humphrey (2012); Jazz in Pink (2013); Kyle Turner (2016); Jeanette Harris (2017), and list goes on!

Pamela became a usual IAJE attendee and performer with the African American Jazz Caucus Band in New York City, Long Beach, CA, and Toronto, Canada. Earlier in her career, Pamela completed European jazz festival tours including the Montreaux, Vienne, and Juan des Pins Jazz festivals, with the Texas State University Jazz Band, directed by the legendary Dr. James Polk.

With her performances and the Women in Jazz Concerts and Vocal Performance Workshops, Pamela has made a huge difference in the jazz scene in Austin and surrounding areas.

She is a beautiful woman who steals the heart of any jazz aficionado. Be prepared to shout “encore!”

Pamela Hart's Technical Requirements for Live Performances

Here are Pamela Hart's Basic Requirements for a live performance on stage. These requirements can be used in small, medium, and large size concert halls, event centers, large clubs, ball/banquet rooms, and many other venue formats. Smaller venue formats (club, residence, office, small event room, etc.) will not require many of the specifications listed below.

Most of the specifications are negotiable and interchangeable.
The band size may be reduced to a quintet, quartet, trio, duo, or a capella to meet client requirements.
Stage:
- Stage Size = 16 x 12 minimum (negotiable)

Sound:
- High quality 24-channel mixing console
- EQ Rack with reverb on both main and monitor mixes
- Monitor mixes depending on size of band (4 mixes are optimum)
- Floor monitors depending on size of band (7 wedges are optimum)

Backline: If backline is supplied by requestor:
- 5-piece drum kit with 20" or 22" kick
- Bass amplifier
- Guitar amplifier
- Grand piano or Keyboard with amplifier

Accommodations:
- Two dressing rooms minimum: (1) accommodate for two females, and (2) accommodate 5 males
- Hotel accommodations for 6 rooms, non-smoking in a 3 to 5 star rating hotel..

Travel:
- Provide air or ground transportation to venues exceeding a 200 mile radius from Austin, TX, USA.
- Provide ground transportation to/from airport, train, or bus stations
- Provide ground transportation to/from performance venues and hotel.

DETAILS OF INPUT LIST and MONITOR MIXES
Most of the specifications are negotiable and interchangeable.
To get feel for Pamela's vocal and instrumental live delivery, listen to the audio or video samples: