BLU Sinatra Starring PEGGI BLU

NEW YORK (www.peggiblu.com) - One of contemporary music's most respected performers, soul singer Peggi Blu, pays homage to one of history's most extraordinary voices, Frank Sinatra, with the tribute concert Blu Sinatra. Blu brings her electric show to Masquer's Cabaret, 8334 West 3rd Street, West Hollywood, California every Wednesday - March 16,23,30,April 6,13,20,27, May 4,11,18,25

With Blu Sinatra, music lovers have the opportunity to experience "Ol' Blue Eyes" as they've never heard him before - through the powerful, gutsy vocals of Peggi Blu, a veteran singer who went from church choirs to "Star Search" grand champion. Blu ventures into the Sinatra song book and mines classics such as "My Way," "One for the Road," "That's Life", and "Mood Indigo", infusing them with funk, passion, soul and even gospel.

Blu came to New York after a childhood spent singing in church choirs and touring throughout the Carolinas, establishing herself as a backup singer for stars such as Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Luther Vandross, Barbara Streisand, The Staple Singers, Burt Bacharach and Smokey Robinson. She starred on Broadway in "The Wiz," and released the 1980 album I Got Love with MCA. I Got Love was a modest success, yielding the single "Dancing in the Streets" which hit number 25 on Billboard's dance music chart. After her 1986 "Star Search" win, Blu signed with Capitol Records and released the album Blu Blowin'. The album's most successful single, "Tender Moments," had an eight-week stay on Billboard's R&B chart and reached #4 in the UK. Since then Blu has released two more solo albums, including 2002's Livin' On Love, and has made appearances on dozens of albums - with artists such as Stephanie Mills, Quincy Jones, Aaron Neville, Phyllis Hyman, Tracy Chapman, Kylie Minogue and others - and on compilations, movie soundtracks ("Set It Off," "Fame," "Which Way is Up") and Broadway cast recordings ("The Wiz," "Bubbling Brown Sugar," "Beehive"). President Clinton requested her for his inaugural festivities, and, in 2000, Blu performed in one of the most anticipated musical events ever -- Barbra Streisand's Millennium Concert in Las Vegas. Peggi recently returned from a triumphant week-long engagement in Paris, and is featured in a duet with legendary singer Gerald Alston on the new Manhattan's CD "Even Now". A live recording CD of "Blu Sinatra" is planned for later this year.