DONNIE WILLIAMS BIO -- Is there Life after American Idol ? You Bet
Donnie Williams has been creating quite a stir around the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area over the past couple years with his dynamic performances as lead vocalist of the band Park Place. With the release of his debut CD, Just Like Magic on Chump Change Records, his reputation is sure to spread far and wide among lovers of world-class soul singing.
The East Bay Express, in its 2008 Best of the East Bay issue, named the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-born Williams "Best R&B or Soul Singer." He sings, the newspaper noted, "in ringing, remarkably pliant high-tenor tones, often executing long sustains that he follows, without stopping to take a breath, with strings of pitch-perfect, rapid-fire melismata."
And the San Francisco Chronicle called him "a soul stylist of the first order."
"It's phenomenal," Park Place producer Paul Tillman Smith says of Williams' voice. "He's like a musician, the way he hears. No