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As a young and upcoming singer in New York City Marci rubbed shoulders with Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Lou Rawls and Frank Sinatra and her singing style was strongly influenced by the performers of that era.
Late in her active singing career Marci performed at the Palomino in Hollywood alongside Asleep at the Wheel, Freddie Fender, Jerry Lee Lewis, Shake Russell and Kinky Freedman and it was the influence of the Austin contingent among that group that eventually led to her settling in Central Texas in the mid 80’s.
In recent years Marci has focused her energies on the vocal training studio she runs in Austin and has drawn much acclaim for this work from fellow professionals. An inspiring vocal teacher, she tells her students about her own struggles to overcome a lifelong learning disability to demonstrate how they can, with the right focus, realize their dreams no matter what their chosen life goals are.
After many years of absence from the performing scene Marci is now planning to resume her singing career, a move that many of her friends feel has been delayed for far too long. She is motivated by a strong desire to return to what she enjoys doing most in life – singing for an audience her favorite material.
Now, as a mature performer, Marci demonstrates in her current performances all of the skills she has honed from a lifetime of singing. Older audiences will particularly appreciate her innate sense of timing and her phrasing, arts that are rarely heard in popular music today. Above all her ability to communicate with an audience by making the most of every lyric (and even managing to include some of her own lifetime experiences) will captivate everyone who attends her performances.
Pearl Linkar’s Music and Performing Arts Center and Dance School,
Herbert Berghoff School of Acting, Charles Nelson Reilly
Barbara Bell, L.A., who managed Buddy Rich, Louie Prima, Keely Smith, and Morgana King;
Bill Butell, Creative Management Association; Marvin Schnayer, NYC; Associated Booking, NYC; 20th Century Fox
500 Club; Atlantic City; Gillies Club, NYC; U.S.O. Tours, VT; The Strip, Miami Beach, FL; Playboy Circuit; Waldorf Astoria, NYC; Ratfink Room; Living Room; Playboy Club; The Improv; Eden Rock; Fountainbleau; Doral Country Club; Carolon Hotel; Grossingers, Kutschers, Concord, Borscht Belt in the Catskills, NY; Pocono Mountain Circuit, PA; Club Dates in Boston, MA and CT
Showrooms, Cabarets and Theatres, Canada; Royal York, Canada; U.S.O. Tours, Newfoundland and Greenland; Intercontinental Hotels; Hilton Hotels; Holiday Inns; Sheraton Inns; Aruba, Curacao, Trinidad, Bahamas, Maracaibo, Caracas, Dutch Guyana, Surinam
Stagefright / Lifefright, Hide-Out Theatre; Faces of a Lady, Capitol City Playhouse
The Sound of Music; Fiddler on the Roof, Broadway
Ed Sullivan Show, Johnny Carson Show, Quincy, Scarface
Opened for: Freddy Fender, The Palomino, L.A.; Asleep at the Wheel; Jerry Lee Lewis; Red Skelton; Professor Irwin Corey; Bobby Short; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Alan King; Richard Pryor; Rodney Dangerfield; Reba MacIntyre; Godfrey Cambridge; Jerry Jeff Walker; David Frye; Jackie Mason
Dick West, who wrote for Bobby Darin; Bernie Hoffer; Jerry LaGuardia; Mary Small, NYC; Fred Steel, NYC; Phil Moore, who did musical arrangements for Lena Horne
Let Me Go, Lover; Will You Be There?
L.A. Times; N.Y. Times; Variety Magazine
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