A short documentary on JP Soars and his musical career, including a meeting with BB King that set him down the path of playing the blues.

JP Soars with Southern Hospitality!  Live on the Sony Stage Montreal Jazz Festival 2015  at Festival International du Blues de Tremblant Québec Canada July 2015


 Winner & 2013 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Contemporary Male Blues Artist of the year!

Soars is not an empty suit of technique. He is instead a studied practitioner of the guitar arts, and he demonstrates this on the standards of originality brought together on this recording. (Full Moon in Memphis 2015)

— C. Michael Bailey "All About Jazz"

JP Soars Bio  Like every musician, guitarist and vocalist JP Soars is a combination of his influences. JP Soars has a unique and uncommonly-deep, influential reservoir to draw from. His latest CD, 2014's Full Moon Night in Memphis, offers …


JP Soars Bio  

Like every musician, guitarist and vocalist JP Soars is a combination of his influences. 

JP Soars has a unique and uncommonly-deep, influential reservoir to draw from. His latest CD, 2014's Full Moon Night in Memphis, offers proof in its blues variations. From funky, tongue-in-cheek "Back To Broke," to the Latin-peppered jazz of "Lil' Mamacita," to the story telling of homelessness, "Somethin' Ain't Right," which was featured in an MTV style music video and received frequent airplay on Little Steven's "Underground Garage" XM Radio program.

In his formative years, Soars recorded and toured as far as Europe with metal bands from South Florida. Now, with years of  entertainment experience from diverse cultures under his belt, he's been able to win over thousands of eager young and old blues and jazz fans the world over with his now famous band, The Red Hots quartet. The band is on the road touring throughout the year, in the USA and Canada. JP Soars and The Red Hots have recently played the Baltic Sea Festival in Germany, the Liberation Day Festival in Holland, Blues à Tournon d'Agenais France, Keepin' The Blues Alive Netherlands, as well as several blues festivals in Germany and Austria.  

 JP Soars has completed several cigar box guitar workshops in addition to his performances on stage, as well as hand-crafting his own line of cigar box guitars, and other string instruments. P also fronts and leads the "Gypsy Blue Review", which pays homage to jazz guitar icon Django Reinhard. In this performance, h tak o the more hallenging and omplex styl of azz guitar while creating his own fusion of Bohemian fluidity and groove.

All of Soars' studio releases, including Back of My Mind (2008) and More Bees With Honey (2011), offer a unique blues dialect that helps him stand apart from the run-of-the-mill guitar rat-pac.  

Soars' expressive vocals, and one can hear why all of his efforts have gotten frequent airplay and accolades from Little Steven, plus earned him a Blues Music Award nomination for "Best Contemporary Male Blues Artist of the Year" and multiple "Best Blues CD" and "Album of the Year" awards throughout his career. Such success comes as no surprise to knowledgeable fans or critics. Soars and the Red Hots won the 2009 International Blues Challenge (and Soars the Albert King Award for best guitarist) against competition from around the globe in Memphis, TN. 

For the past few years, the singing guitarist has also been part of the regional all-star blues act Southern Hospitality. Tampa vocalist/guitarist Damon Fowler and Memphis vocalist/keyboardist Victor Wainwright, in addition to the Red Hots own drummer, Chris Peet, and Matt Walker from Fowler's band, garnered a Blues Blast Award for "Best New Artist Debut Release" for their 2013 CD Easy Livin,' and have been touring worldwide in-between the three bandleaders' own schedules.

Of Note: "Full Moon Night in Memphis" has expanded Soars' profile, attention and airplay even further appearing in constant rotation on B.B. King's "Bluesville" XM Radio program and landing in the Top 50 on the 2014 "Living Blues" chart.  Little Stevie Van Zandt plans to use the title track in his forthcoming cable TV series, "Viva La World". 

A true professional businessman as well as musician, Soars prides himself with having one of the tightest bands on the scene with a consistent lineup, and still records his own CDs on his Soars High Productions label despite other offers. He's recently returned to the familiar Studio 13 in Fort Lauderdale with the Red Hots (Chris Peet, guitarist Steve Laudicina, and the newest member, bassist Charles Gasper are in the stages of their most anticipated release yet in 2016.


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What We've Achieved

  • 2013 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Contemporary Male Blues Artist
  • Top 10 Billboard May 2013 "Easy Livin'" Southern Hospitality
  • 2013 Blues Blast Music Award “Blues Band of the Year”  Southern Hospitality  Nominee
  • 2013 Blues Blast Music Award “New Artist Debut Release”  Southern Livin'  WINNER
  • Top 10 Billboard Debut March 2013 “Easy Livin'” Southern Hospitality
  • Living Blues Radio Chart - #8 “Southern Livin'” 2013
  • Top five coolest CD's on Little Steven's Underground Garage for the album "More Bees with Honey." 2012
  • In February 2009 Soars and His Band took home top honors in Memphis TN by winning first place in the IBC “International Blues Challenge” as well as the coveted Albert King award for most promising guitarist.

 

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