ValLimar Jansen is Ethel Waters

A Two-person, One-Woman Show

Featuring
ValLimar Jansen and Frank Jansen(Pianist)

Description
ValLimar and Frank Jansen will be performing their two-person, one-woman show on the life of legendary blueswoman, Ethel Waters at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Blueswoman Ethel Waters, depression-era Broadway star and Academy Award nominee, could "shake her thang" and make audiences shake with pleasure. Share her musical story with ValLimar Jansen in this Kennedy Center award-winning performance.

Familiar and passionate songs of the jazz age highlight this dramatic story of Ethel Waters' rise to fame. Born in poverty, Ethel was one of the greatest artists of her generation. She was the first Black woman to sing on the radio, the first to headline a show at New York's Palace Theatre and the first to star in a dramatic play on Broadway. In her later years, she was nominated for two Academy Awards. ValLimar Jansen's portrayal of this legendary singer has thrilled audiences for more than a decade. Join us for this unforgettable theatre experience.
Jansen will sing 16 of Waters’ signature songs during the show, including Waters’ classic,” “Stormy Weather,” as well as hits such as “My Handy Man,” “My Handy Man Ain’t Handy No More,” “Am I Blue” and “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”

Contact Information

In the United States:
Calvin Wynter Executive Producer Parker Entertainment
45 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012-2402
1-212-253-5555

In Scotland:

39/4 Craigentinny Road Edinburgh, Scotland EH7 6NB UK
1-213-593-9782 crw@parkerentertainment.com
parkerentertainment.com

ValLimar Jansen Biography

ValLimar Jansen has a long history of singing sacred music, starting from the age of five and professionally since the age of six. She received most of her training in music and performance at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and she holds professional degrees in the Arts from California State University and The University of California. So she's got both experience and credentials.

She has sung and toured professionally throughout the United States, Jamaica, Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Scotland, Israel and Japan. She played the role of Beneatha with the Broadway touring cast in the European premier of Raisin. She went on to co-author a one-woman musical about the life of Ethel Waters that received a special commendation from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Today, she tours regionally, nationally and internationally as an actor, a song leader, principal vocalist, psalmist, workshop presenter, and/or emcee. You can hear ValLimar as a guest artist on a number of CDs, including: Endless is Your Love, Live It, Clothed in Love, Make Us One, Luke: The Feast of Life, Turn My Heart, That You May Have Life, By Heart, Another World and Christmas Child. ValLimar and her husband, Frank, have a few CDs of their own: You Gotta Move (Spirit and Song), African American Sacred Songs (GIA), and Ethel (AFW Music). She also has a DVD of her work as a storyteller entitled, “Inspired” (Harcourt Religion Publishers). ValLimar is professional director, actor and singer. She is also a professional storyteller, a college/university professor, a leader of worship and prayer, and a workshop presenter at conferences across the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East--in both sacred and secular venues.