Joey Blake

About Joey Blake

Joey Blake is a vocalist with an unmistakable style, fluid as it is unique, full of
surprises and delivered with masterful grace. His instrument-like approach to the
voice gives him a musical vocabulary heard only in the rarest of singers. He is
one of the founding and current members of Voicestra, the a cappella ensemble
created by Bobby McFerrin. He was also a founding member of Sovoso the
group that spun from Voicestra.
Joey is currently touring internationally with Bobby McFerrin’s Gimme 5 a five member improvisational ensemble, performing totally improvised concerts. His other projects include We Be 3, an improvisational vocal Trio comprised of
himself and two other members of Gimme 5 and his personal touring group “Back to the Band” an ensemble focusing on Improvisation within the live band experience.

Joey is also a renowned teacher his desire to teach is motivated by his need to give back to the music that fills his life with so much joy.
Joey has taught at the Oakland College Prep School as The contemporary Vocal Instructor, and has served as Director of music at The Golden Gate Academy in Oakland, California. He was commissioned by the Oakland Youth Chorus to write and arrange for its professional touring ensemble, Vocal Motion. Joey was on the faculty of The Berkeley Jazz School for four years, as the Conductor of the Berkeley Jazz School A cappella Ensemble, a course which he designed himself. He taught and held a Board position for Young Performers International, a San Francisco based non-profit organization for youth music & education and is currently working with Musicians Without Borders Based in the Netherlands. Joey teaches alongside Bobby McFerrin during his summer residencies at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY, called “Circlesongs”.
Joey currently holds a position as an Associate Professor in the Voice Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he continues to develop his teaching methods.

Joey is an accomplished producer and engineer and has the following credits to his name.
Joey has six self-produced solo recordings, Through My Eyes, Come Inside The Circle, Songs From The Singing Soul, Reaching Back and Sung Deep.
Joey's latest recording project “The Many Shades Of Me” was released August 2018 a digital released on Sugo for Jazz Urbane.
Joey produced five albums for Sovoso`, ( Precious - a European release, Bridges and Seasonings for the US, as well as Crack the Nut and Then and Now).
Recorded, mixed and edited a live abum for We Be 3 entiltled “Live and Improvised” a collection of several live performances.
Joey is a founder and one of the main recording engineers and vocal arranger for the Label “Jazz Urbane”.
His work can be heard on “Playing With Other People’s Heads”.
Joey is also a featured vocalist on the up coming release of
“Bill Banfields Imagine Orchestra”.

Joey also holds numerous composition and arranging credits to his name, including his work with SoVoSo, Bobby McFerrin and Mickey Hart.
His discography includes recordings with Bobby McFerrin (Medicine Music, CircleSongs, Vocabularies SpirtYouAll), Kenny Loggins (Conviction of the Heart), Mickey Hart (Supralingua), to name a few. The focus of all this work is to create a model of what Joey believes is possible in the world by functioning as an international community of musicians working together for one purpose, global unity!

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