BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United States

Canada-based singer and composer whose new age pop and jazz-folk albums were embraced by listeners decades after their initial release. Singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland's hard-to-categorize music is filled with wonder, compassion, and hope. Beginning his recording career in the early 1970s with two self-titled albums of poetic jazz-folk, he spent many of the following decades working in children's television and sang on several albums by iconic singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. In 1986, he released Keyboard Fantasies, a meditative album of uplifting new age pop. After decades of obscurity, Glenn-Copeland's music was rediscovered by younger audiences, and artists such as Blood Orange, Moses Sumney, and Caribou counted him as an influence. He began performing frequently and giving interviews, and following the production of a documentary about his life, the career-spanning collection Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland was released in 2020. His first studio album in nearly 20 years, the anthemic, passionate read more...