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Mindy McQ To Appear At “iNGENUiTY” A Festival Of Arts & Technology In Cleveland
Website: http://www.mindymcq.com (NYC)Listening to Mindy McQ’s warm, silky vocals and well-crafted songs puts a listener in mind of Harlem, Detroit, Chicago or Philadelphia, harking back to the classic soul tracks of1950s, 60s and 70s. One would never dream that these songs and that voice, so sultry and knowing, are the product of a shy, lanky 22-year-old from rural Ohio, who never thought of doing music until graduating from high school. But they are. Born and raised in Berlin Center, Ohio, a town so small and isolated it still doesn't have cable TV, McQ’s interests as a child were art and gymnastics. "My dream was to be in the Olympics," she says. "That was my life. And the things that I learned I think help in life. It's 90% mental in the sport. If you can believe you can do it, you can make your body do amazing things. I think that holds true for everything in life. If you think you can do it, then you can." Things happened quickly for McQ upon moving to Cleveland, thanks to her determination, as well as her talent. Going out to hear local musicians, she met local duo called 2 Skinny Dorks who asked her to go into the studio to record with them. There, at Akron's Neon Cactus studio, she met producer/musicians Mike Farona and Jon Denney who, impressed by her voice, asked her to record with them. At first they gave her some of their songs, but soon she and Denney became a writing team. "Jon and I gel really well," she says, "and that's hard to find. It takes me a long time to get comfortable around someone so I'm glad we found it. We write everything together and every time we sit down we say that it's like we're not really there. Somebody's coming through us. It's almost like a very spiritual thing. And then when it's done, you kind of go "Whoa! That came out of me?" Initially more folk-oriented, she quickly found herself gravitating to a melding of classic soul, funk and jazz, developing a style that contains elements of such performers as Alicia Keys, Nora Jones and Jill Scott. She cites Scott as a favorite, along with such legendary performers as Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke and Al Green. "We're trying to keep it more of a classic sound but have a modern feel," she says. "I'm a young girl, so I like to keep that sound. That's what I wanted to do from the beginning, but I just didn't feel comfortable enough. I think you have to be comfortable in your skin to try to do something like that. And I still don't feel like I'm all the way there, but working on it." McQ plays out most weekends with her band Zero-G and is currently finishing up recording her first album with Farona and Denney, to be completed this summer. She says that, despite her young age, she has little interest in teen pop or dance mixes, wanting instead to play music that will provide the building blocks for a long career, not instant, ephemeral stardom. "I want to keep it more grown-up. I do this because it feels good and it feels right. It feels natural, like something that I should be." About iGENUiTY - A Festival Of Arts & Technology. Taking place September 1 – 4 in Downtown Cleveland, the inaugural Ingenuity Festival is a vibrant four-day event that celebrates the diversity, richness and creativity shared by the arts and technology communities
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