JASMINE TOMMASO

Jasmine Akahlia Tommaso was born in Rome, Italy into a musical family. Her father, jazz bassist Giovanni Tommaso, always found ways to share his passion and love for music with his children.

Jasmine’s first studies in music took place at home, where she started with the piano at a very young age. She continued with voice lessons and was classically trained, studying privately with Catia Di Stefano. Catia was the first to introduce Jasmine to standards and vocal jazz. As she furthered her interest in music, Jasmine graduated class Valedictorian from the South Orange County School of the Arts. She studied with Donna McElroy at the Umbria Jazz Clinics, where she received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music’s Summer program in Boston. She graduated with Honors in Theatre Arts from The University of California, Santa Cruz. As she furthered her jazz studies with Tierney Sutton, she was on the President’s Honor Roll when she received her Diploma in Vocal Performance from the Los Angeles College of Music.

Jasmine has performed in jazz festivals worldwide including the Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy), The Lucca Jazz and Selinunte Jazz Festival (Italy), and The Watts Towers Jazz Festival (Los Angeles), to name a few, accompanied by some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Stefano Bollani, Danilo Rea, Giovanni Tommaso, Tia Fuller, Kim Thompson, and Fabrizio Bosso. She is also an educator, teaching alongside Berklee Faculty Dennis Montgomery III at the Umbria Jazz Clinics in Perugia.

Since her move to Los Angeles in 2011, she has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has made quite an impact on L.A.’s music scene, performing regularly in the city’s greatest jazz venues.

Her latest album “Nelle Mie Corde” (2015) has received great praise in Italy and was recently awarded “record of the week” on the Italian jazz station “Rai3 Fahrenheit.”

KIMBER KABELL

Kimber is a best-selling author, visionary and speaker with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, finance, training, entrepreneurship and corporate management. She has touched the lives of over 100,000 people with her speaking, coaching and books. The Founder of Zentarra, Transformational Business and the global on line community for women: GetYourWomanOn.com; Kimber guides and inspires visionary women, entrepreneurs, corporations and organizations to true success and ultimate freedom. She provides the resources, systems, and tools to deliver results. Her life and business models are all based on connectivity and the courage to live and thrive with Beauty, Grace, Power and Financial Freedom.

The Governor’s Office selected her as one of California’s top women business leaders. She was nominated by the LA Business Journal for “2010 Woman of the Year.” She was a professor and facilitator for University of San Francisco and Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is a licensed clinical hypnotherapist. She has created and managed over 10 billion dollars in sales, contracts and intellectual property. In 2010, she was nominated and selected as a delegate for the 55th session of the United Nations Council on the Status of Women.

Kimber has collaborated and spoken on stages with powerhouse leaders like Lisa Nichols, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, Deepak Chopra, Michael Beckwith, T. Harv Eker, Mari Smith and Paul Zane Pilzer, to name a few. She is a co-author of the bestselling book, The Law of Business and Attraction – Secrets of Cooperative Success. She is currently producing a collaborative book of 40 visionary women, Get Your Woman On: Beauty, Grace Power and Financial Freedom, which will be released in Spring 2011. To find out more, call 877-71-CHANGE (877-712-4264) or e-mail media@GetYourWomanOn.com.

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LORENZO GRASSI

Lorenzo Grassi was born and raised in Rome Italy were he started his musical career as composer, singer and guitar player. He has been part of several successful projects ,mostly original Italian pop music and progressive rock/crossover. In his twenties he got into the Jazz idiom and began a road of serious studies of theory and harmony. He was a student at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio in Rome for a few years and participated in two summer programs of the Berklee College of Music during the festival called Umbria Jazz. Here he was lucky enough to play and study with such musicians as Jim Kelly, Winton Marsalis and many others.

In 2000 he finally moved to Los Angeles to attend the L.A. Music Academy, were he graduated successfully in 2001. That year he won the award of Promising artist of the 21st century, was invited by the North American Cultural Center of San Jose Costa Rica to play several shows and teach a few clinics.

Since then Lorenzo Grassi has always been very active in the music world as a Session Musician, Performer, Composer, Producer and Educator here in the U.S. and abroad.