Felice Hernandez: Singer Friends
10/05/18 • 37 min
As a background singer, Felice Hernandez has toured with Hillary Duff, and sings in Oingo Boingo Dance Party. As a session singer, she has contributed to films, TV shows, albums, and award shoes. In this episode she tells us about how she came out from behind a desk at a label to sing with Cecilia Noel, and how that launched her career as a backup singer. She talks about juggling being a singer and a mom, shares advice for younger singers, and looks into her very popular facebook group Singer Friends LA.
Bio
Felice Hernandez – session singer / studio vocalist / vocal instruction / demo singer
A native of Los Angeles, Felice Hernandez grew up loving the diverse musical opportunities that big city life brings. Inspired by that diversity, she has become a “chameleon” of contemporary music, ranging from r&b, rock, pop, and jazz. There’s no shortage of incredible musicians in Los Angeles, and Felice has been honored to work with many. Her background singer credits include, NEIL YOUNG, HILARY DUFF, members of OINGO BOINGO, KEVIN SPACEY, MICHAEL MCDONALD, JOSH GROBAN, ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ and PETE ESCOVEDO. Television and Film credits include PITCH PERFECT 2, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, 90210, THE LATIN GRAMMYS, AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, MTV TRL, DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS, Disney Jr.’s ELENA OF AVALOR, just to name a few. Felice is also the signature station i.d. voice of numerous radio stations in Europe and Asia.
In addition to working as a session singer and live vocalist, Felice is also a vocal instructor / voice teacher in the South Bay. Contact Felice for a private voice lesson.
FILM
Power Rangers – Lionsgate (release date, March 2017)
Pitch Perfect 2, Universal
Ghostworld, United Artists
TELEVISION
Elena of Avalor – Disney Channel
Transparent – Amazon Originals
Battlestar Galactica – SCI FI Network
Sarah Connor Chronicles – FOX
American Music Awards – ABC
The Latin Grammys – ABC
90210 – CW Network
Don’t Forget the Lyrics – VH1
NBC’s Las Vegas – NBC
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson – CBS
MTV New Year’s Eve – MTV
MTV’s Hilary Duff “Making the Tour” – MTV
Hilary Duff’s Island Birthday Bash – FOX
Evil Men – USA Network
ALBUM CREDITS
Ruen Brothers “Point Dume”, Republic Records
Neil Young “Living With War”, Reprise Records
Hilary Duff “Most Wanted”, Hollywood Records
Battlestar Galactica “Season Four Soundtrack”, LaLa Land Records
Cecilia Noel & The Wild Clams “Slam the Clam”, Epic Records
LIVE PERFORMANCE/TOURING
Hilary Duff
Michael McDonald
Josh Groban
Kevin Spacey
Pete Escovedo & Sheila E.
Johnny Vatos Oingo Boingo Dance Party
Alejandro Fernandez
Cecilia Noel & The Wild Clams
Episode Links:
Cecilia Noel and the Wild Clams
As a background singer, Felice Hernandez has toured with Hillary Duff, and sings in Oingo Boingo Dance Party. As a session singer, she has contributed to films, TV shows, albums, and award shoes. In this episode she tells us about how she came out from behind a desk at a label to sing with Cecilia Noel, and how that launched her career as a backup singer. She talks about juggling being a singer and a mom, shares advice for younger singers, and looks into her very popular facebook group Singer Friends LA.
Bio
Felice Hernandez – session singer / studio vocalist / vocal instruction / demo singer
A native of Los Angeles, Felice Hernandez grew up loving the diverse musical opportunities that big city life brings. Inspired by that diversity, she has become a “chameleon” of contemporary music, ranging from r&b, rock, pop, and jazz. There’s no shortage of incredible musicians in Los Angeles, and Felice has been honored to work with many. Her background singer credits include, NEIL YOUNG, HILARY DUFF, members of OINGO BOINGO, KEVIN SPACEY, MICHAEL MCDONALD, JOSH GROBAN, ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ and PETE ESCOVEDO. Television and Film credits include PITCH PERFECT 2, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, 90210, THE LATIN GRAMMYS, AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, MTV TRL, DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS, Disney Jr.’s ELENA OF AVALOR, just to name a few. Felice is also the signature station i.d. voice of numerous radio stations in Europe and Asia.
In addition to working as a session singer and live vocalist, Felice is also a vocal instructor / voice teacher in the South Bay. Contact Felice for a private voice lesson.
FILM
Power Rangers – Lionsgate (release date, March 2017)
Pitch Perfect 2, Universal
Ghostworld, United Artists
TELEVISION
Elena of Avalor – Disney Channel
Transparent – Amazon Originals
Battlestar Galactica – SCI FI Network
Sarah Connor Chronicles – FOX
American Music Awards – ABC
The Latin Grammys – ABC
90210 – CW Network
Don’t Forget the Lyrics – VH1
NBC’s Las Vegas – NBC
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson – CBS
MTV New Year’s Eve – MTV
MTV’s Hilary Duff “Making the Tour” – MTV
Hilary Duff’s Island Birthday Bash – FOX
Evil Men – USA Network
ALBUM CREDITS
Ruen Brothers “Point Dume”, Republic Records
Neil Young “Living With War”, Reprise Records
Hilary Duff “Most Wanted”, Hollywood Records
Battlestar Galactica “Season Four Soundtrack”, LaLa Land Records
Cecilia Noel & The Wild Clams “Slam the Clam”, Epic Records
LIVE PERFORMANCE/TOURING
Hilary Duff
Michael McDonald
Josh Groban
Kevin Spacey
Pete Escovedo & Sheila E.
Johnny Vatos Oingo Boingo Dance Party
Alejandro Fernandez
Cecilia Noel & The Wild Clams
Episode Links:
Cecilia Noel and the Wild Clams
Previous Episode
Charissa Nielsen: Getting A Dream Career By Helping Others
Session singer Charissa Nielsen started out as a music therapist, working in a residential care facilities for troubled youth, before breaking into session work. Her passion for helping others continued as she and her producer/engineer husband carved out successful careers in Los Angeles, and now, Charissa sits on the singer’s committee at Sag-Aftra, and is a strong advocate for educating singers on the commercials contract. She gives some very practical and straight-forward tips to young singers, and sprinkles the whole show with nuggets of wisdom.
Bio
Charissa Nielsen is a Los Angeles based Session Singer, Vocal Contractor, Composer, and Actor. Before session singing, she worked as a Music Therapist, eventually becoming a Personal Assistant to Rick Rubin, Cecilia Noel, and Colin Hay. She has shared the studio or stage with Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Michael Buble, Perry Farrell, Colin Hay, and Seth Macfarlane. She is a member of the salsa group Cecilia Noel & the Wild Clams. Her vocals can be heard in the films Star Wars, Sing, The Jungle Book and Planet of the Apes as well as in commercials for Tide, Burger King, UPS, Hanes, Old Navy, JELLO, and Comcast. Charissa Nielsen is also one of three women that direct a gospel choir called Elevate and a kids choir called Captivate. More info at TheCommercialChoir.com.
Episode Links:
Rick Rubin’s Shangri La Studios and Bob Dylan’s Tour Bus
Billy Corgan & Smashing Pumpkins
The secret recordings Carla was working on: Anavitória
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Angie Jaree: Stunt Singing, Loss, And Vibrators
An amazing and versatile singer, Angie Jaree talks with Carla about her work with Clare Fischer, Natalie Cole, Patty Labelle, Patty Austin, Sergio Mendes, her super group The Cleanup Crue, and her latest adventure singing on Danny Elfman’s live show The Nightmare Before Christmas. She also shares how she coped with her husband’s death while keeping an active performance schedule, and some solid advice for singers trying to break into the business.
Bio:
Angie was born and raised in Chicago and moved to LA to pursue her artist and acting career in a ‘milder’ climate. Meanwhile, Angie won a Grammy Award (for Clare Fischer’s 2+2+ FREEFALL album), received Emmy Award recognition, and has become a first-call session singer and voice actor.
One of Angie’s favorite projects is being a featured soloist with Danny Elfman re-creating “The Nightmare Before Christmas” live with full orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl Halloween 2015 and 2016 and at Barclay’s in Brooklyn, NY in December 2017.
Angie has recorded and/or performed with the following artists:
Daft Punk (sang on 2016 Grammy win album), “Weird Al” Yankovic,
Sugarland, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’99, Michael Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Christina Aguilera, Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Clare Fischer, and Walter Becker
Recent/favorite animated and live action tv credits include:
Tangled The TV Series, “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”, Family Guy,
The Simpsons. Biblically Speaking, 2 and ½ Men, The Middle
Recent/favorite animated and live action film credits include:
La La Land, Pitch Perfect 2, The Muppets Most Wanted, SING!
In 2014, Angie played the role of “Donna” in the world premiere of Without Annette (a unique comedy combining improv and scripted performance)
Angie has a B.A. in Theater/Music from Northern Illinois University.
Angie's education includes several years of Improvisation study with Second City in Chicago, and Tamara Wilcox, Christopher Smith and both study and improv performance with Kent Skov in LA (ongoing)
Angie is the founder/wrangler of the improv comedy/character singing loop troupe: The Cleanup Crue (www.thecleanupcrue.com )
Episode Links:
Sergio Mendes
Reel to Reel tape
Latin Grammy Person of the Year
Janice Liebhart
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