Syreeta Neal

Born in Toronto to an Italian mother and an African-American father, the fourth generation musician was exposed to music and the art of performance before she she could even speak. She began studying jazz and classical music at the age of 11 but her most influential "classrooms" were those of her musical family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where her father, grandfather and many aunts and uncles are all accomplished blues musicians. An in-demand vocalist in the Toronto house scene, she's also just completed her first independant solo album entitled "Stand Tall".