Interview with Ashley Sankey, Birmingham, Alabama

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Date
2020-09-23
Main contributor
Ashley Sankey
Summary
Ashley Sankey (Birmingham, Alabama)

Birmingham, Alabama-based musician Ashley Sankey, a classically trained keyboardist and percussionist and a formally trained jazz and opera vocalist, has been performing in the Birmingham area for many years. She taught herself guitar, and although she works in multiple genres, she considers herself a soul musician. Sankey has her own in-home studio, where she also produces music and engineers studio sessions for other up-and-coming Alabama artists. Ashley has a long history in the church and started singing background for traveling gospel acts at the age of thirteen. She released her first studio album, Ashley Sankey Presents “Birmingham’s Here,” in 2013. She also performs as a percussionist at Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Birmingham. 

Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/23/2020.
Contributor
Holly Hobbs
Subjects
Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic
Location
Birmingham, Alabama
Collection
Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Unit
Society for Ethnomusicology

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