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About Adrienne Z

Hear What they are saying about "Chameleons":

 

Pirate Radio 
"Her first single, "Blue Day" was an instant hit on my station - Pirate Radio Key West  -  and still a top 5 airplay request since the day we started playing it."  - Jack Smith Pirate Radio Key West 
  

Hoebee in the Afternoon 
"Working in the music biz for over 25 years you hear a lot of artists that if the DJ didn't tell ya who it was - you wouldn't know. With Adrienne you can tell immediately. Her music and attitude are amazing! Bill Hoebee. Wail 99.5 - Sun 103.1"  
  

US1 Radio 
"When it comes to music, I like a good variety and that's what you get with Chameleons. Rock, pop, Folk fronted by one of the greatest voices ever. Songwriting at it's best." -Tiny Schlauch, US1 radio. 

 

 
 
 
 
Adrienne Z is a Singer/Songwriter, Performer, Arranger and Producer originally from Massachusetts. Compared to singers like Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, and Stevie Nicks, Adrienne's voice is pure emotion, stylistically elegant, soulful, and ethereal. Recently Adrienne began writing music for Film and TV and has landed placements in ads for Samsung and Deloitte, and her music can be heard on the Lifetime Movie Network. Adrienne's released 7 albums, 9 singles, was nominated for both the Boston Music Awards and the Key West Music Awards and is currently performing live while building her Film and TV catalog in her home studio in the Florida Keys.
 

Early in her music career, Adrienne achieved local success in the metro Boston area both in local clubs and the streets of Harvard Square Cambridge. After producing her first release, One Step Closer, her song "Overboard" became the most requested song on college radio station WERS. Soon after producing her second release, "Dust into Dawn", she was nominated for a Boston Music Award and featured in Boston Women Magazine. After her third release, Looking Within Looking Without," she got heavy airplay on college radio and a feature article in Songtalk Magazine published by the National Academy of Songwriters where they called Adrienne an "enchanting and exquisite talent." She soon joined forces with fellow singer songwriter Marsia Shuron Harris aka Mother Turtle and together they performed throughout the Keys and New England in the duo Aye. Their album "Sweet Life" became an underground hit and was chosen as 1 of the top 10 albums by the Greenfield Recorder. Aye received stellar reviews in Northeast Performer Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Key West Citizen and Key West the Newspaper, to name a few. 

Adrienne has produced seven CDs of original music including one each with the bands Aye (Sweet Life), Injade (Shortcut to the Playground) and most recently a musical collaboration with jazz pianist Larry Smith entitled, "Dreamsmith Dream Again". Sean Heaney, former contributing writer for Songtalk Magazine summed up Adrienne’s music in the article put out by the National Academy of Songwriters, "The way her audience listens to her songs is perhaps the highest compliment paid to her engaging song stories." Currently Adrienne is performing, teaching, arranging and producing music in her studio Conchtown Sounds. 

“According to my dad, my mom could shatter a glass with her voice!” laughs songwriter and musician Adrienne Zolondick, when asked about her musical roots. “My dad grew up in a Jewish section of Brooklyn and between the ages of nine and sixteen, he sang in the synagogue choir as a star soloist. The choir leaders all vied to snap up my dad to sing with their choirs. He traveled all over the country. My dad was a touring musician!” 

Adrienne's grandfather was a cantor in the synagogue and both her grandmothers came from musical families. “I sang with my mom and sister in three part harmony all the time!” Adrienne fondly recalls. 

Adrienne pauses. “Come to think of it, my mom even hired musical babysitters for me. I remember four sisters who rotated as our sitters who would bring their guitars over and we'd all sing while they were babysitting. It's no accident I am a musician!” remarks Adrienne, laughing. 

With such a vibrant upbringing, it's no wonder Adrienne developed a unique and iconoclastic style that is all her own. Compared to singers like Joni Mitchel, Norah Jones and Stevie Nicks, Adrienne's voice is pure emotion, stylistically elegant, soulful, and ethereal. 

“I went to Walnut Hill School of the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. But my voice was very young and small back then and I didn't quite understand all that I learned in those four years singing classical music as well as show tunes,” she confesses. “As I got older, I learned to stretch my voice by putting on my favorite song at the time and copying what the singer was doing. I learned a lot singing along with Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Ricki Lee Jones.” 

The expert vocal training Adrienne received helped her sing what she was hearing correctly. “I didn't choose to wail and scream like Janis Joplin because I didn't like how it felt in my voice. I preferred a nuanced, emotive type vocal style. It seemed to suit my songwriting,” she says. 

Adrienne's guitar style, patterned on the finger picking of James Taylor, is another technique she learned, then made her own. “When I was in the summer program at Berklee, I had fifth row seats to his concert and watched him like a hawk. I learned his songs exactly like he played them from listening to records. I've never relied on sheet music. I've always relied on my ear to hear vocals and music. I was able to learn Taylor's style, then tweak it to make it my own,” says Adrienne. 

Adrienne achieved local success in the Metro Boston area. Her song “Overboard” was one of the most requested songs on WERS, long a bell weather of excellent music. She was nominated for a Boston Music Award and featured in Boston Women Magazine. Songtalk, published by the National Academy of Songwriters, said, “Adrienne is an enchanting... exquisite talent." In an article entitled Adrienne - More than Just FolkLore, the live review states, " There's a mystical quality in her writing that I've seen in few other performers. It is beyond me someone this talented has not been signed to a major label record deal." 

It's perhaps Adrienne's work with the seminal band Aye in the mid 90's that helped define her voice, writing and performing style. “I met Marsia Shuron Harris when we were both busking in Harvard Square,” says Adrienne. “Aye was born soon after. A friend suggested we try Key West as a place that offered a lot of opportunities to play.” The pair bought a VW bus and headed south. Key West offered Aye steady work and allowed the pair to "get our act together while getting paid," says Adrienne. "We were able to play original material in touristy spots that were more used to cover-songs." 

Aye worked for eight years as a band before parting ways. The breakup of the band coupled with the dissolution of a long romance, left Adrienne adrift but she soon anchored herself in her music. 

“Many of the intense tunes on my new record,Chameleons, were inspired by my sadness around this break-up. Heartache is quite a stir for me when it comes to writing music,” she confesses. “When I am happy, I am usually out enjoying life with my friends and family. When I am sad, or moved emotionally, the music, lyric and melody starts to flow.” 

Chameleons is due out this summer. Filled with her unique writing and otherworldly voice, Chameleons is a collection of songs that reflect Adrienne's unique music,voice, heart, and soul.

Adrienne Z. Music, Key West, Florida Keys Musician, Songwriter, Singer, Rock, Acoustic

Copyright © 2022 Adrienne Z. All Rights Reserved. Photos: Chehalis Hegner  Mother Turtle Photography. All Rights Reserved
adrienne@adriennemusic.com
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