Tamara LYANE

Tamara LYANE, Swiss and American nationality, is born in Geneva Switzerland in 1964 from a singer (Fanni Jones) and a composer (Marcel Retchitzky).

Since her younger age, Tamara Lyane was "drowned" into the musical world. She studied piano at the "Conservatoire de Musique de Genève" between 1972 and 1980 and sang in the children's choir of the "Grand-Théâtre de Genève". Between 1988 and 1990, she took classical singing lessons with her Aunt Basia Retchitzka.

Since piano wasn't her most natural element, Tamara Lyane decided to concentrate all her energy in popular music by singing. She worked with all sorts of formations/bands like rock, jazz, reggae, blues, classical, funk, world music etc. between 1982 and 1989 to find where she realy fitted.

She met David Bowie in 1988 in Gstaadt while giving a concert in his honor with Sandro Surshok and Kiet N'Guyen.

  

 

  
In 1994, she sang as a backup with Diana Miranda at the Montreux jazz festival, Miles Davis hall and on the festival's boat.

In 2001, first part of Axel Bauer as a backup with a French band "Emma Combo".

She also met Jean-Louis Aubert (ex Telephone singer) by doing the first part of his concert as a backup with a Swiss band named "GAB" in 2002.

Tamara Lyane is very ambitious. This is how she found herself involved with several recordings or live shows as a backup like: "Sex After Death" (rock) 1987, "Manga Jam" (reggae) 1988-1989, "Métro" (rock) 1990, "Edward de Syon & the last call" (rock) 1992-1994, "Alenko" (funk) 1992-1994, "Florence Chitacumbi" (funk) 1994, "Michel Renia" (world music) 1994, "Diana Miranda" (brasilian music) 1994, "Bee-Bee Honey" (funk-rock) 1995-1997, "The Park" (funk) 1998, "GAB" (rock) 2001-2002, "Emma Combo" (french songs) 2002, "Jean-Marc Cherino" (french songs) 2002.

For 4 months between 1993 and 1994, she left to Montréal, Canada to follow an intensive vocal course in jazz. At the same time, she also sang in the school's gospel choir which lead to a concert in December 93 in those two disciplins.

Between 1990 and 1998, she sang in churches for weddings with a pianist or an organist.

As a lead singer, Tamara Lyane sang with the following bands: "Banquet Final" (rock) 1985, "Manga Jam" (reggae) 1988-1989, "Feline" (rock - female band) 1984-1995, "Jazz Unlimited" (jazz) 1995, "Chu-Chu Sound" (african music in Tanzania) 2002, "Manya" (jazz-metal) in 1988 (reformation of the band in 2002).

Tamara Lyane is always ready to invest her voice for a good cause. She has been involved in several occasions into humanitarian causes like AIDS research and hunger in the world.

CD's:

  • 1991, 1 song on the CPM compilation record as winner with "Feline" in the Lucky Strike contest (Studio CPM)
  • 1993, backup + 1 lead song on Michel Renia's CD (Taurus recording studio)
  • 1993, 1 song on the "Safer Sex Rock" compilation album with "Feline" to help research on AIDS (Kiet N'Guyen & Yorgos Bernardos Studios)
  • 1996, backup singer on Bee-Bee Honey's 3rd album (Yorgos Bernardos Studio)
  • 1997, backup singer on Edward de Syon's 2nd album (Mountain Studio)
  • 2002, backup singer on GAB's album (Emma Combo Studio)
  • 2002, backup singer on Jean-March Cherino's album (Lauren Schwaar Studio)
  • 2002, 3 personal songs recorded at Lauren Schwaar Studio
  • 2003, 3 songs recorded with Manya so far (Emma Combo Studio)

To finish, these are the musicians Tamara Lyane worked with or for (some of them still at the time being): DAVID BOWIE, JACQUES MARUGG, TONYA MICAELA, JILL YAN, GIANNI DI PAOLO, BILL HURLEY (Inmates), SCIPIO, FRANCOIS KIESER, KIET N'GUYEN, MICHEL RENIA, JULIEN PIERRUS, GEORGES GAUMONT, YORGOS BERNARDOS, JEAN RISTORI, SANDRINE DUMONT, DIDIER TISCHLER, MARCEL BERTOLI, CHRIS "POPOF" RICHARD, AZANIA, JOE BAAMIL, EDWARD DE SYON, FRANCOIS TORCHE, DIANA MIRANDA, ELIZABETH BROWN, LAUREN SCHWAAR, JEAN-MARC CHERINO, ALAIN GUY, ROGER MELT, JULIEN "VULZOR" VULLIET, THIERRY NYDEGGER, DAVID CUNADO, DOMINIQUE WASSMER, LAURENT POGET, FLORENCE CHITACUMBI, ALEXANDRE COPPALONI, THEO, RAPHAEL TOINE, BOBBY JOHNSON, CLAUDE CURRAT, CHRISTOPHE BOVET, ANNE GRAF, CLAUDE LANDER, DAVID RICHARDS, SANDRO SURSHOK, CHRISTOPHE DE MARCHI, STEPHANE CORNIOLEY, CHRISTOPHE DIARD, STEFANO SACCON, LIVA, NICOLAS HAFFNER, RENATO DI PAOLO, XAVIER HAFFNER, PHILIPPE BAYS, THIERRY PALEY, SIMON HUGI, DENNIS WATSON, CYRIL AZZAM, FAUVE, CHRISTOPHE CHAMBET, BEATRICE GRAF, PATRICIA SORTINO, NADIA PELLEGRINI, ALAIN NYDDERHAUSER, VIC PITTS, JEAN-JACQUES GUERTCHAKOFF, HELENE CORRINI, MICHEL SAULNIER, MICHEL PEREZ, JEAN-YVES ROUCAN, PIERRE BELAKOWSKY, DANNY NEGRI, SERGE ZAUGG, PATRICK MULLER, ERIC TRUFFAZ, HENRY DON JEANY, JOHN WOOLOF… and much more!!!