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Gypsy Elise and The Royal Blues About The Band The Grammy Nominated band, Gypsy Elise and The Royal Blues is a full scale performance band, ranging from a duo, featurng husband and wife musical team, Gypsy Elise and Ryan De Sade Way... all the way to the full scale festival and international performance band featuring 9+ performers and 3 additional back up vocalists. Band Performance Configurations: Duo:
4 - 5 pc
Club and Event Band:
Full Performance Band Instrumentation for the full band is lead vocals, keyboards, drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, saxophone, trumpet, electric violin, and a perfectly syncopated second drummer (or trombone, if stage can not accomodate 2 drummers). 3 additional back up dancers/singers round out the performance that is sure to set any stage aglow~
Gypsy Elise is the rarest form of vocalist; a
beautiful female contralto~ With her 3.5 octaves, and silken, throaty
lower range, occasionally Milady Gypsy is mistaken for a male singer.
Nothing is further from the truth! And then...you see her... it becomes
crystal clear that she is not only 100% gorgeous female vocalist, she is
keyboardist Ryan De Sade Way's wife and is also the very proud Mama to
two beautiful children, 33 years apart!. Gypsy Elise is a force of
nature, a super-charged rose to be reckoned with!
Refining her vocals and assuming her position as troubadour, Gypsy
Elise, with the aid of her Royal Blues, vividly captures the mysterious
chambers of human emotion when reciting a torch or blues ballad.
Together their sound recalls Gypsy's transient kindred with a whimsical
bohemian, yet mesmerizing sensual mash-up of blues, R&B, jazz, rock, and
funk. Their repertoire ranges from soft, dulcet melodies to psychedelic
powered rock, but invariably provokes a teeming crowd from tears to
twinkle-toes.
Orleans to Orlando, Gypsy Elise and The Royal Blues is the #1 Rockin
Blues Band! With a worldwide fan base, over 80 original songs all in
radio rotation. This IS the band to have at your performance! ~The
"world bred, traveled and seasoned" vocalist/band leader, Gypsy Elise De
Sade-Way is Basque Gypsy by birth, but essentially southern musician by
trade. Born in 1959 to a family of entertainers, her flower-child era
rearing is clearly heard in her music.
Hailing from South Carolina, Ryan De Sade Way grew up always wanting to play music. From age 7, he took piano lessons and loved them! By the age of 9, his teacher Mr. Clamp, a
multi-instrumentalist with decades of professional experience, put him
into a performing band to gain experience as a pianist/keyboardist. At
the age of 11, he began learning trumpet, which he began playing in his
Middle School band. During Ryan's years at Berkeley High School in
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Ryan continued playing trumpet in the
High School marching and concert band, as well as playing piano for Mr.
Clamp’s performing band as well as the High School jazz band. During
Ryan’s last 3 years in high school, he had earned a spot as a pianist in
the All State Jazz Band, meeting and playing with many of the finer
musicians in South Carolina. Ryan earned a music
scholarship to Florida State University where he studied jazz piano
under Jazz Piano Professor Bill Peterson for 4 years. During this
period, Ryan played on stage with Bobby McFerrin, Leon Anderson, Joel
Johnson, as well as several other well- known jazz musicians. After his
graduation from FSU in 2006, Ryan continued perfecting his craft by
recording and touring with bands across the southeast. He has performed
with no less than a dozen professional performing bands.
He has performed on 17 CDs, 14 of
which he is performing on each track. Ryan formed and led an eleven piece Funk Band
called Naked Lunch, and toured all over Florida from 2006 to 2007. After he moved to New Orleans, he met his wife, Gypsy Elise, and they have had a dynamic, engaging band called Gypsy Elise and The Royal Blues, New Orleans and now Orlando's ’ #1 Performance band (per ReverbNation) for the past 8 years. This highly entertaining band won the People’s Choice Award for “The Best Band on Bourbon Street in 2013” and has respected Grammy recognition. Currently, Ryan and his wife Gypsy Elise
recently moved from New Orleans and now currently live in Orlando, Fla
playing music together, and raise their now 6 1/2 year old son. Currently, Ryan is
the Musical Director and keyboardist/key bassist for Gypsy Elise
and The Royal Blues, as well as the keyboardist for
Reggie Smith and The Smithsonians, The Phil Campo and the Loose Change
Band, and The French Market Quartet.
Ryan performs regularly no less than 4
days a week.
From the first notes, this is one HIGHLY engaging band! The audience is immediately drawn into the show as Gypsy Elise begins her entertaining dialogue that makes everyone feel both welcomed and appreciated at once. Throughout the show, her warm and open personality, hilarious wit, and brilliant smile are a winning combination when interlaced with her powerful vocals and original lyrics. The cover music that the band does shines far past the norm. With an impressive seven original albums to their credit, it is a proven fact that the blend of skills and musicianship will undoubtedly carry this Gypsy and her talented krewe to exactly where they want to be.
Gypsy Elise bloomed to the beats of the standards of music rooted in
blues, jazz, funk, and ballads. Pair a musical family upbringing with a
vocal range to rival Jacob's Ladder and hear the sultry vocals inspiring
a sensual and swampy fusion.
Photo Credit: Ana Espinosa
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