Danielle Nicole

A 2014 Blues Music Award winner, there's not a time in her life that soul singer-bassist Danielle Nicole (born Danielle Nicole Schnebelen) doesn't remember loving to perform. The Kansas City-raised daughter of musicians developed a solid blues foundation touring the world with her brothers, Nick and Kris Schnebelen, in the sibling band Trampled Under Foot, which released Badlands in 2013. Debuting at #1 on Billboard's Blues Chart, Badlands revealed a musical sophistication well beyond the band's years. As Trampled Under Foot wound down after 13 years, Nicole formed her own band and on March 10, 2015 makes her Concord Records solo debut with the release of a New Orleans-flavored six-track EP, featuring GRAMMY®-winning producer-guitarist Anders Osborne, Galactic's co-founding drummer Stanton Moore, guitarist Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) and her regular keyboardist Mike Shinetop Sedovic. Nicole was well aware of the Crescent City's formidable musical mojo, but she had no idea she could fall so deeply under its spell until she hooked up with Osborne, who proved to be the perfect shaman. You can hear and feel that Big Easy influence snaking through each of the EP's six tracks.