This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Isaiah Sharkey matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Isaiah Sharkey.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Isaiah Sharkey (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
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CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Isaiah Sharkey
- City/Place: Chicago, Illinois
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
A native Chicagoan, 29 year old Isaiah Sharkey spent his early years living in Cabrini Green. Perhaps as a precursor to his future career, he lived with his parents in a row house on a street that is now named for Curtis Mayfield.
Coming from a musical household, Isaiah was introduced to music at the age of four. He decided he wanted to be a guitarist and asked his parents to purchase one. Shortly thereafter, Isaiah started learning music under the close introduction of his father, Michael Sharkey. He would learn about different musical genres/styles from gospel music, which came from growing up in the church, to jazz, R&B, blues, rock and funk music. It wasn't long after that Isaiah would become noticed by other musicians in the Chicago area for being a young, new talent. Soon after, he started doing concerts in the church as well as sitting in local jazz club jams.
At the age of 14, Isaiah, along with his father and brothers, released their first album entitled, "Skyliner." This album displayed Isaiah's ability to play covers and some transcriptions from greats like Wes Montgomery and George Benson.
Subsequently, he started his recording career and served as a sideman for gospel artists such as Smokie Norful, Donald Lawrence and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. He also toured as lead guitarist with Ronald Isley and recorded two albums with him.
In 2009, Isaiah started working with artist D'Angelo on his third album, Black Messiah, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. Based on his work and contribution to the project, Isaiah received his first Grammy.
Isaiah also has worked, recorded, and toured with several world-renown and Grammy award winning artists including John Mayer, Patti LaBelle, Christopher Martin of Coldplay, Paul Simon, Corrine Bailey Rae, Mike Posner, Keith Urban, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men, Lalah Hathaway, Raphael Saadiq, Chris Dave and the DrumHedz, Regina Bell, Ruben Studdard, Lupe Fiasco, Kelly Price, Faith Evans, Rance Allen, The Winans, The Clark Sisters and many others.
Isaiah Sharkey is poised to take center stage as he fuses together his background in rock, gospel, jazz, R&B, blues, and funk to create an original sound with an unmistakable dose of soul. His highly anticipated debut album Love.Life.Live. was released in September of 2017 and earned him the iHeart Radio Artist of the Month Award in November for his single “It’s a Shame” featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff.
You can see Isaiah on Cory Henry’s Revival trio tour this year, along with John Mayer and his all-star band. Isaiah will also be hitting the road with his own band this summer so look out for dates near you.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Manager: Zenep Husenaj
zenep.husenaj@gmail.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.isaiahsharkey.com/physical-albums
- ▶ Twitter: Sharkey335
- ▶ Instagram: sharkey335
- ▶ Website: http://www.isaiahsharkey.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCrWnpcKG1BWU6pvsSaLverg
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2sKGz8OLYmgWyxxZNERpts
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/3C1N2tQeHHULjHI2e9rRTP
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/04Ox3q2qx5xhbSsafIxGAH
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/5XB7YFfMg6eH6MzIJlVxKS
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/52UxJevKAI6IA5oiijTs7o
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/0gSZfG5FweSxV1fOj4eGog
- ▶ Article: http://guitar.com/features/interviews/isaiah-sharkey/
My Instruction
- Instruction: http://pickupmusic.com/isaiah-sharkey-master-class/
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
