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Check out Shayna Steele's brand new website shaynasteele.com She is so excited and has put so much work and love into the site. She hopes you will love it just as much as she does!

So browse around, watch some video (more video coming soon!) sign up for her fan club and mailing list so you can get exclusive up to date, up to the minute info about everything Shayna is up to. This will also give you the opportunity to be the FIRST to know the release date and the name of the first single off of her upcoming full-length album!

Shayna just got back from a run with Bette Midler in Vegas and is very excited to be back in NYC to work on the finishing touches of her album.

To her fans' Shayna writes "You are everything. Keep the love coming and spread the word aboutShaynasteele.com I need you more than ever!!!!"

Press

"...this is a woman blessed with the chops to turn heads and make the music world take notice."
- Good Times Magazine

"When I first heard her, I couldn't believe my ears. It is a very rare occassion when the world is blessed with a voice like this. Shayna is destined to become a major fixture in the music industry"
- Freddie Jackson

"She's simply amazing."
- Neal Schon, JOURNEY

"For all of the night's guitar worship, the most memorable moments happened away from the Marshall amps. R&B belter and former "Rent" star Shayna Steele showed Journey's Neil Schon that the voice is mightier than the ax".
- Josh Kun, L.A Times


"Schon redeemed himself a measure by having his axe howled down by the deliciously cooz-o-licious wail of R&B diva Shayna Steele". 
- Ron Garmon, Los Angeles City Beat

"Steele’s vocal style and original songs combine R&B, soul, and jazz, inspired by diverse talents such as Ella Fitzgerald, The Temptations, and Aretha Franklin". Dennis McMillon, San Francisco Bay Times

"Tasteful, P-funkish;.. Retro R&B Singer flows with rhythm..." Chuck Eddy - The Village Voice

"prodigious pipes”… Time Out New York

Biography

World-class vocalist Shayna Steele has been on the Broadway and NYC music scene for the past 12 years. After only 3 months in New York, Shayna was cast to be the first replacement in the history of the Broadway production of Rent. The new show was at its peak when she joined the original cast. Other Broadway credits include Jesus Christ Superstar and the smash hit musical Hairspray.

Shayna has appeared on The Grammys, The Tonys, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Conan O’Brien, David Letterman and she was a teen vocalist on Ed McMahon’s Star Search. She has had the honor of performing at Jazz @ Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre, Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music
Hall.

The demand for her voice has led to recordings on Moby’s Hotel and his latest album Last Night on the song “Disco Lies” which was featured in the film Cloverfield. Shayna also collaborated with Moby on the theme song for last summer’s Blockbuster hit The Bourne Ultimatum starring Matt Damon. She performed on the Grammy award nominated album Great Joy with The Broadway Inspirational Voices and the movie soundtracks of Legally Blonde 2 and Bambi 2. Shayna also lends her voice once again to the Dynamites in the 2007 release of Hairspray starring John Travolta. Shayna made a special appearance singing on HBO’s The Sopranos during the show’s final season as well.

Shayna has 2 bands, her 8-10 piece R&B band under Shayna Steele and her jazz group, Shayna Steele’s B-Side. She has played such venues as The Blue Note, Joe’s Pub, The Cutting Room and B.B Kings in NYC. Shayna has shared the stage with such performers as Ledisi, George Clinton(opening act), Bette Midler, Deborah Cox, Moby, Oleta Adams and Journey’s Neil Schon.