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Aubrey Logan
Aubrey Logan Achieves Childhood Dream
ine years ago, Aubrey Logan stood onstage at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade with the vocal quartet Syncopation, performing alongside the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the 4th of July. N
At the time, she was a would-be senior, studying at the Berklee College of Music with dreams of one day becoming a singer, musician, and entertainer. Those dreams started at a young age for the Seattle native. “I don’t know that I ever had any interest in anything else,” the former American Idol contestant says. “I always had the urge to perform.”
She first embraced musical theater before turning to jazz when she started taking trombone lessons at the age of 12. That’s when artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, and Whitney Houston held sway over her, eventually serving as an influence for her own music which combines jazz, R&B, pop, neo-soul, and rock.
It would not be until after she graduated from Berklee and moved to Los Angeles that she began to realize her dreams, fully immersing herself into her career. “All my eggs went into the artist basket at that time,” she says. “That’s where I met my manager. It’s where I met several of my musical heroes and learned from them, watched them, and started to play tiny little clubs and would guest on shows, anything I could do to perform; sometimes I’d perform in front of five hundred people and other times I’d perform in front of five people.”
Less than a year after the release of her first album, “Impossible,” which hit both the Billboard Charts and iTunes Jazz Charts as an independent artist, Logan is now in a place her younger self once dreamed of being. Having appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and performed with such stars as Pharrell Williams and Josh Groban, Logan’s star continues to rise.
In the midst of that ascent, as well as her current tour with Dave Koz & Friends, she will showcase her talents to Pops audiences on August 12th. It will give her a rare moment to “breathe and enjoy and be grateful for where I am at,” she says.
And it will also serve as a reminder of just how
far she has come since that summer evening when she first performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra nine years ago. For Logan, there’s no place she would rather be. “It is wonderful to perform with an orchestra,” she says. “There is always a period where you feel like you are flying when you are singing and you feel like they are lifting you. What makes it so exciting is when the orchestra plays and there’s this really loud crescendo and then it suddenly stops. There’s a moment when the singer is singing the lines alone. That deep contrast is so profound.”
