Silky Smooth Songstress

JAZZ IN MANY STYLES

2022-2005 highlights for Billboard charting artist Sharon Rae North:

• Tin Pan in Richmond with co-headliner Rob Zinn

• Tin Pan in Richmond, VA: featured vocalist with saxophonist Adrian Crutchfield

• Bobby Blackhat Concert Series, Diamonstein Concert Hall, Hamption, VA with co-hedliner Rob Zinn

• Herb Alpert’s Vibrato, Los Angeles, return performance (2025)

• Blues Alley in Washington, DC: featured vocalist with guitarist Paul Brown

• Smooth Summer Sessions at the Youngstown Playhouse: featured vocalist with guitarist Paul Brown

• Tin Pan in Richmond, VA: featured vocalist with guitarist Paul Brown

• Tin Pan in Richmond, VA

• St. James Live in Atlanta

• Richmond Music & Jazz Festival

• Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood

• Blues Alley in Washington, DC, Tin Pan in Richmond, VA: featured vocalist with saxophonist Patrick Lamb

• Conyers-Rockdale Black Box Theater in Conyers, GA

• Natalie’s in Columbus, OH

• Humphrey’s Backstage Live in San Diego

• Herb Alpert’s Vibrato in Los Angeles (sold out 2022)

• Blues Alley in Washington, DC; Keystone Korner in Baltimore: featured vocalist with Phaze II

• Youngstown Wine & Jazz Festival: supporting Four80East in Youngstown, OH.

• Tin Pan in Richmond, VA: featured vocalist of saxophonist Patrick Lamb

• Released 10-song album, Silhouette, produced by 2x Grammy nominee Chris “Big Dog” Davis and 2x Grammy winner Paul Brown. 

• Single "We Should be in Love (Silhouette)" on initial Grammy ballot in Best R&B Song category

She’s taken her talents across the United States and internationally, sharing and showcasing her vocal style and subtle confidence and her combination of seriousness and playfulness during shows. 

Her last EP Sincerely Yours, also produced by Big Dog, dropped in July 2016 and had singles charting globally. The project made the initial ballot for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards and two of the five songs were Billboard contenders.  

Sharon puts on a fabulous performance as a headliner and an opener. She has opened for many national acts, including Bob James, Joe Sample and the Jazz Crusaders, Patti LaBelle, Four80East, and many others. 

She has performed at venues throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Serenade en Chalabre Festival in Chalabre, France, Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium, Triad Theater and The Metropolitan Room in New York City, Natalie’s in Columbus, Ohio, Blu Jazz+ in Akron, Ohio, Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, GA, Second Street Festival and Capital Ale House Concert Hall in Richmond, VA, Sambuca in Atlanta, GA, the Hippodrome in Richmond, VA. Isaac Hayes Restaurant in Memphis, Twins Jazz in D.C., James River Cellars in Richmond, VA, Bayfest in Mobile, AL, CenterStage in Richmond, VA, Fridays at Sunset and Jazz at Maymont in Richmond, VA, Durham Summer Music Series in NC.