The innovative new album from LEA DeLARIA – House of David: delaria + bowie = jazz, which boldly reexamines the work of music icon David Bowie – is now available on iTunes, and other digital formats from Ghostlight Records. The television, stage and music star – currently best known as “Carrie ‘Big Boo’ Black” in the hit Netflix series “Orange is the New Black” – recently performed the opening track “Fame” with Conan O’Brien on his TV program “Conan,” which is available here. House of David physical CDs will be available in stores and online July 24. The first major jazz reworking on Bowie’s beloved catalog, the album features tracks such as a smooth bossa nova interpretation of “Golden Years,” a trenchant “Life On Mars” and a roof-raising gospel take on “Modern Love.” House of David is produced by Matt Pierson with Jeremy Katz serving as Executive Producer. To order the album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/
“Bowie is not only a god of rock and arbiter of style, but he’s THE defining singer songwriter of the latter part of the 20th century,” according to Lea. “From ‘Suffragette City’ to Labyrinth through Zig
House of David features Kevin Hays on piano and keyboards, Tony Scherr on bass and guitar, Steve Cardenas on guitar, Kenny Wollesen on drums and vibes, Seamus Blake on saxophones, Bashiri Johnson on percussion, Shedrick Mitchell on Hammond B3 and special featured vocalist Janis Siegel.
LEA DELARIA boasts a multi-faceted career as a comedian, actress and jazz musician. She holds the distinction of being the first openly gay comic on television in America which led to countless television and film roles portraying Police Lieutenants, PE Teachers and the Lesbian who inappropriately hits on straight women. Selected TV credits include “Awkward,” “Clarence,” “Californication,” “The Oblongs,” “One Live to Live,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Will and Grace,” “Friends” and “Matlock.” Selected film credits include: The First Wives Club, Dear Dumb Diary and Edge of Seventeen.
She’s received Obie and Theater World Awards, and a Drama Desk nomination for her portrayal as ‘Hildy’ in the Public Theatre’s revival of On The Town, an Ovation nomination for The Boys From Syracuse, and has played both Eddie and Dr. Scott in the gender-bending Broadway musical The Rocky Horror Show. Lea was the featured vocalist at the 50th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, and has performed in some of the most prestigious houses in the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Chicago Symphony, Hollywood Bowl, The Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Lea has five records on the Warner Jazz and Classics label and her book Lea’s Book of Rules for the World is in its third printing at Bantam Doubleday and Dell.
Follow Lea on Twitter and Instagram @realleadelaria and Facebook. www.delariadammit.com
“HOUSE OF DAVID” TRACK LIST
1) Fame
2) Space Oddity
3) Golden Years
4) Suffragette City (duet with JANIS SIEGEL)
5) Starman
6) Boys Keep Swinging
7) Rebel Rebel
8) Let’s Dance
9) Life on Mars
10) Jean Genie
11) Modern Love
12) Young Americans
