Pamela Rose

Pamela Rose is a San Francisco jazz and blues vocalist who has thrilled audiences locally and internationally with her swinging, soulful style for decades. Along with her enduring love of live performance, Pamela Rose has also spent years teaching vocal performance classes and running jam sessions for singers. Many fans associate Pamela Rose with her touring ensemble shows—Wild Women of Song and Blues is a Woman—celebrating remarkable women who helped define American music. Rose’s book Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era reflects her years of research, as do her many talks and lectures about music creators. Pamela Rose has eight recordings under her name, is on the faculty of the Jazz School in Berkeley, and tours, teaches, and sings most often in the Bay Area that she loves so dearly.