"Polished entertainment and fresh inspiring music"
Electronic Link Journey, NYC
"Her wealth of talents: a strong yet nuanced singing voice; colorful, jazz-flavored piano work, innate charm, intelligence and good spirits"
Cabaret Scenes, NYC
"Her vocals are extraordinary, crisp, clear, filled with color and shadowing"
Cabaret Hotline, NYC
"A strong, ringing voice that's perfectly lovely and certainly polished"
Show Business, NYC
ROBYN'S STORY:
From a Harem of Beauty Queens to ‘Posi Pop’ Dreams
Singer-pianist-songwriter-performer, Robyn McCorquodale is more than a credited musician and international entertainer. She’s an inspired artist with a story to share. Her music is motivating. Her lyrics and storytelling are meaningful, uplifting and engaging. She’s a woman with passion, dreams and an an unyielding desire to make a difference and be part of the growing wave of consciousness making positive change happen in today’s world.
Robyn is CONNECTED
in her latest CD release of 12 self-penned 'jazz-tinged pop' songs. Her new album of Positive Music, a genre that the industry has named 'Posi', shines with empowering lyrics embracing universal messages of hope that celebrate unity, life and conscious living. Each song has a message and behind every message is a story to tell reflecting lessons learned along Robyn’s journey that has taken her around the world. Her music sings with beautiful and uplifting melodies, lush harmonies and compelling grooves, ringing out a unique musical blend of jazz and pop. CONNECTED
uniquely expresses a musical tapestry that inspires self-empowerment and self-love in support of conscious relationships, health, work, and living.
CONNECTED reflects Robyn’s journey, one that she identifies as beginning upon her first professional music engagement, a 60 day adventure singing in Southeast Asia for a notorious playboy prince and his harem. This is only one of the many interesting stories that Robyn loves to share with her audiences. In a world fueled by power and excessive material wealth, her lasting memory of time spent in notably one of the wealthiest places in the world, is the vivid and haunting impression of the many sad eyes she left behind, including her own.
Since that first unique overseas engagement, Robyn has performed for over one million people, sharing positive and uplifting messages in her storytelling and music with listeners from around the world. Entertaining audiences in New York City, Hong Kong and Vancouver, in between contracts to exotic destinations headlining as a main stage Guest Entertainer on luxury cruise ships, Robyn has circumnavigated the globe more than once, gaining a wealth of experiences along a journey that continues to fuel her song writing and passion for music and life. With a performance resume comprising engagements taking her to all seven continents, her favorite place in the world is ANTARCTICA, which she claims to be the most spiritual place she has ever visited, where beauty, quietude and her being connected.
Robyn's other releases of self-penned music include:
EP, TAKE MY HAND
"An uplifting anthem full of hope and celebration of the human spirit on a par with Burt Bacharach's 'What The World Needs Now Is Love'"
Electronic Link Journey, NYC
CD, UP AHEAD
"Winner - perceptive and thought provoking - powerful - strong lyrical impact - very touching and compassionate - great talent for songwriting"
Great American Song Contest.
PERFORMANCE VENUES: (Partial List)
Birdland, NYC; Metropolitan Room, NYC; Laurie Beechman Theater, NYC; New York Sheet Music Society’s Songwriters Showcase; Sacred Center New York; The Duplex, NYC; The National Arts Club, NYC; Danny’s Skylight Room, NYC; Judy’s Chelsea, NYC; Swing 46, NYC; Sutton Place Hotel, NYC; Cafe Milou, NYC; WOR National Radio ‘The Joey Reynolds Show’, NYC; The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN; New World Harbour View Hotel, Hong Kong; Palace of Brunei, Brunei Darussalam; Vancouver Playhouse; Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver; Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver; The Chan Centre For The Performing Arts, Vancouver; Performance Works Vancouver, Coast Capital Savings "Jazzilla" for Shooting Stars Foundation; The Cellar Jazz Club Vancouver; Jazz Vespers at St. Andrews-Wesley Vancouver; Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver; The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver; The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver; Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver; The Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver; The Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside; The Fairmont Waterfront, Vancouver; The Fairmont Vancouver Airport; The Fairmont Chateau Whistler; CBC National Radio ‘The Roundup’; CBC Television ‘News Feature’; CTV National ‘The Vickie Gabereau Show’; Shaw TV ‘Urban Rush’; Silversea Cruises; Cunard Line; Seabourn Cruise Line; Regent Seven Seas Cruises; Holland America Line; Princess Cruises; Saga Cruises; Spirit of Adventure; American Orient Express.