Dean Bowman Accomplished blues soul rock gospel singer and choral director

Dean Bowman (updated bio 2022) Heralded by the LONDON GUARDIAN as "soulful, charismatic, and technically brilliant... a star," renowned internationally for his "rumbling baritone and heart-peeling falsetto... " (VILLAGE VOICE), and a major contributor to the NYC downtown jazz, rock, and avant-garde music scenes of the 1990’s, Dean Bowman is an accomplished, "massively talented" vocalist, composer, and performance / recording artist. Described alternately as a "vocal-mentalist," "tone poet," "avant-garde gospel singer," and a "jazz singer with the soul of a rocker," for his work with Don Byron, “Do The Boomerang”, the music of Junior Walker (BLUE NOTE/EMI), Steve Bernstein’s MTO Plays Sly and the Family Stone, Ambrose Akinmusire, Vasil Hadzimanov, and touring the music of Ray Charles with the John Scofield Band.

Dean Bowman gratefully acknowledges traditional Black spirituals, gospel music, European hymns, and Black American church music as “ground zero” for his creative development into blues, electric music, classical music, soul, and jazz.

Credits include records with Don Byron (Do The Boomerang, Existential Dred, Bug Music), Lester Bowie (Brass Fantasy*, When The Spirit Returns*, The Odyssey of Funk and Popular Music*), Jane Bunnett, Stanley Cowell, and Dewey Redman (Spirituals and Dedications*), among others. He was a featured voice of two characters for the Sony PlayStation game "Parrappa The Rappa." and a featured vocalist for Québécité, an opera composed by D.D. Jackson, with libretto by Canadian-born poet-laureate George Elliot Clarke. He was a finalist for “Romania au Talent” in 2021 with his chorus “Visions of Dreams.”