Biography
Although she never achieved widespread national recognition, Maggie Galloway developed a modest but devoted audience as an expressive vocalist performing jazz in Boston throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Flint, MI, she spent her childhood in nearby Flushing and counted Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson among her primary influences. Her first encounter with jazz occurred in 1976 while she was an 18-year-old music student at the University of Michigan. She relocated to Boston in 1979 to enroll at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where Downbeat Magazine awarded her the DeeBee Award for best student vocalist two years later. Along the way she performed with assorted pop and rock groups, among them the Boston rock band Pleasure Pointe, and with the city’s fusion-oriented Nightrunners, yet eventually concentrated on straight-ahead jazz and standards. To cover living expenses she held assorted day jobs; during the 1990s she worked part-time at a high-tech PR firm while continuing to sing in jazz clubs at night. Brownstone issued her debut CD, More Than You Know, in 1998, drawing on sessions recorded in 1995 and 1997.
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