Summary: YolanDa Brown is the UK's premier saxophonist. In 2008, YolanDa won a MOBO for Best Jazz, and then again in 2009. She played sax with everyone from Alexander O'Neal to Mica Paris, Soweto Kinch to The Temptations, and released two lovingly crafted EPs. For 18 months, YolanDa even hosted her own talk show on Sky. YolanDa’s 1st album, April Showers, May Flowers, is a beautifully sculpted record that touches lightly on jazz and soul and R&B, each track bestowed with the kind of lyrical insight - on love, on life - that suggests its author is something of a poet, too. YolanDa works within the charity sector as ambassador for both the Prince's Trust and the Yamaha Class Band, an initiative that visits schools in underprivileged areas encouraging children to pick up an instrument. She is also currently backing Plan UK's Because I Am A Girl campaign, and is a patron of the Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians. YolanDa Brown is endorsed by Yamaha, Guess Jeans, MAC cosmetics and adidas to name a few. A well as being a musician she is a business woman. YolanDa holds two Masters Degrees in Operations Management. She is fluent in Spanish. Last year YolanDa was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of East London. http://www.yolandabrown.co.uk/
