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DETROIT’S QUEEN OF THE BLUES THORNETTA DAVIS2023 BLUES MUSIC AWARD WINNER FOR SOUL/BLUES ARTIST FEMALE
2024 BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE
2022 BMA NOMINEE CONTEMPORARY BLUES FEMALE, INSTRUMENTALIST VOCALS
2021 JUS’ BLUES FOUNDATION HONOREE- THE DENISE LASALLE RECORDING OF EXCELLENCE AWARD
2018 $25,000 KRESGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
Thornetta is a Winner of the 2023 BLUES MUSIC AWARDS for Best Soul/Blues Artist Female. Thornetta is also winner of over 30 Detroit Music Awards. Thornetta received six 2018 DMA’s and has also won eight 2017 Detroit Music Awards for her latest album Honest Woman. As winner of the 2017 Blues Blast Magazine Music Awards for “Best Soul/Blues Album, Thornetta has garnered international attention by winning 2017 1st place in the INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION (ISC) for “Best Blues Song” (I BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT) and also receiving the prestigious French 2018 La Academie du Jazz Award for “Best Blues Album” for HONEST WOMAN.
Down Beat Magazine 2018 Monterey Jazz Fest
“The follow-up at the Garden Stage on Saturday blew the crowd away. In her first time performing at Monterey, Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis, sang with no-nonsense sass, fearless in her missives against lovers, as she preached the Blues”
Monterey Jazz Festival Features Highly Charged Performances https://downbeat.com/?/news/detail/monterey-jazz-festival-features-highly
Blues Music Magazine, Editors Top Picks 2016
Roots Music Reports, Duane Verh, “5 stars” Detroit Diva Thornetta Davis sets a very high bar for urban blues releases this young year…
Elmore Magazine, Jim Hynes “Thornetta is a Blues singer, Soul singer or Gospel singer it doesn’t matter She’s got it. She’s a Queen, and an honest woman.
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4920 Bellemeade Ave, Evansville, IN, United States, Indiana 47715
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