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VICKI RANDLE

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NEWS

💥NEW SINGLE DROP💥

Until We Overcome 

released today is a deliberate call back to the vital role that music plays in empowering our fight against injustice.

An exhortation to remember that activism and focus

requires intentional collective collaboration. 

The single is the first  track off of our latest upcoming EP 

Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up 

March 7, 2025 on Soulectric - a division of Little Village Music   

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BIO

I grew up listening to jazz, classical music and the snippets of Motown I heard at friends houses that my jazz musician/snob father refused to let me listen to at home, bless his heart. The first pop band I ever heard was the Beatles, a band my mother loved, so guess who got to play guitar and learn mostly folk, pop and rock tunes of the 60s and 70s? My bands in high school in (Orange County, Ca) played Zeppelin and Sabbath. My solo gigs mostly Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. My audiences stayed confused about this and asked for Aretha Franklin tunes. So I literally taught myself how to sing like a black girl, and in the process discovered a deep love and appreciation for the wealth of contributions black people have made in every genre, and embraced my own roots as a black mixed woman musician. 

 

I began to write songs and start singing and playing with other bands, but I was frequently relegated to "background vocalist" a position that, while enjoyable, felt limiting, as I was, by then, a bass player as well as guitarist. I'd seen Bobbye Hall play congas in "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", which changed my musical trajectory from singer/songwriter, to vocalist/percussionist. I got to see the world with many bands over the next 40 or so years and eat regularly. 

 

My first tour was with Narada Michael Walden opening for the Brothers Johnson and Rufus with Chaka Khan. I toured with George Benson for the next 10 years, in addition to stints with Dr. John, Wayne Shorter, Laura Nyro, Kenny Loggins. I have written and recorded and toured with a wealth of Women's Music artists (if you read the liner notes there's a good chance I'm there.) When off the road I recorded with Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Todd Rundgren and many others. I was asked to the Tonight Show Band with Jay Leno by Branford Marsalis and stayed from 1992 to 2010. The last few years I’ve toured and recorded with Mavis Staples, was featured in the HBO documentary Mavis! and on two of her records. I recorded bass, percussion and vocals for Wayne Kramer's MC5  posthumously released "Heavy Lifting"and toured in the last incarnation of the band. My own band Skip The Needle has been rocking the love since 2012 and just released our latest single "Until We Overcome" from our soon to be released "Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up."

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