“Rosanne
Howell is the quintessential talent of what can only be described as the art
deco era of popular music. As a student of the blues, jazz, pop, hip-hop, and
funk Rosanne has emerged as an artist redefining her craft”. A veteran of the studio
environment, Rosanne’s compositions, vocals, and technical skills, as a singer,
speaker, music producer and audio engineer can be heard in numerous music
projects, films, video games, and television productions. With a diversity that
ranges from children’s programming, singing the opening theme for “Amigo and
Me” to the recording and editing of audio in video games for CAPCOM and Sony
Playstation, to engineering classical music concerts, to producing, writing,
and singing in many Hip Hop Songs.
As a live performer, Rosanne
has been instrumental in adding her expressions to the Toronto Jazz Festival
(performing Jazz), the IRIE Festival (performing Funk/R&B), and branching
out from Toronto, Canada, she has dates set up abroad to perform Hip Hop and her
own compositions. As an educator Rosanne has
taught vocal music and music theory privately and in groups at music stores in
Toronto, and at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain,
Georgia U.S.A. She also teaches
music technology privately, and has taught in some of Toronto’s Colleges. As well, Rosanne is the host of
tutorial videos by ASK Video for Logic Pro 8 and GarageBand. As a youth advocate, Rosanne
has a passion for the voices of the next generation. She works with youth
to encourage them to speak their minds and pursue their dreams. Her close
relationship with the Ontario Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children
and Youth, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, PARC, and BlueSKY DJ Service have
helped Rosanne grow into a leader who can give back by nurturing the future. As she continues to strive
and learn, her peers commend Rosanne: “Rosanne
is our alchemist. She can
transform the most common, not to mention, painful experiences into
gold. And she has an innate gift of taking two seemingly opposite
ideas and joining them together in a way that has everyone scratching their
heads and saying, ‘of course that makes sense, but how the heck did you get
there?”