 What do these people?…Grammy Awards winner, platinum record-selling singer Al Jarreau, double Grammy Awards winner Keb’Mo, action movie star Steven Segal, platinum rappers Cooilio (Gangsta’s Paradise), and Skee-lo (Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller), television star, actress Marla Gibbs (227, The Jefferson’s), singer, gold-recording artist Howard Hewitt (Shalimar), virtuoso jazz violinist Karen Briggs (Yahni, Stanley Clark), Blues legend Taj Mahal, seminal jazz legend, recording artist Jimmy Smith, seminal movie director Melvin Van Peebles, Tony Awards winning actress, singer Linda Hopkins, R&B funk legend Bobby Watson (Rufus & Chaka Khan), to name but a few…
...have in common?
Lead Guitarist, CD Recording and Performing Artist
LADY MAC
Lois McMorris is LadyMac.
In addition to working with and performing in the company of such stellar artists, plaudits have been issued from such notables as… Prince, Teena Marie, Grace Jones, Beck, Dr. Dre, Brian McKnight, Chico DeBarge, Bonnie Raitt comedian[s] Michael Colyer, Reynaldo Rey, musical icons, Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, Ike Turner, Joni Mitchell, actress[s] Rae Dawn Chong, Anna Marie Horsford, actor[s] Kiefer Sutherland, Reginald VanGelson, Phillip-Michael Thomas, singer Nikki Howard and attorney Johnnie Cochran among others, too numerous to mention.
Not only has LadyMac recorded and, performed with some of the finest artists and musicians in the industry, she has also performed in major venues; The Staples Center LA, The Forum (w/ Cooilio) LA, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (w/ Mandre & Tower of Power) CA, Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, the X Games (w/ Cooilio) San Francisco CA, Houston Civic Auditorium (w/ Mandre & Earl Klugh) Houston Texas, and in various and sundry locations across the nation, happily, to enthused audiences.
She has performed in the theatre and theatrical shows ranging from co-starring in Los Angeles in "An Evening with Four Ladies of Music" with Broadway star-performer Linda Hopkins in Hollywood, (standing room only), to garnering rave reviews in "Through Verse & Imagination" (see Press pages) directed by Sir Preston Webster at the notable Jazz Bakery.
As a CD Artist, after having recorded with a plethora of artists, Atma Records released a well received LadyMac:One As a Performing Artist, Lady alternates between performing as a headliner with her own group, LadyMac & the MacAttack [i.e. opening for pop-icon singer, Al Jarreau or the talented Howard Hewitt], and appearing as a headliner [receiving major standing ovations,] on shows such as the prestigious Playboy Jazz Festival, Salute to the Congressional Black Caucus, as well as jazz, blues and old-school festivals, nation-wide. While thusly appearing, she has earned rave reviews, including:
"The girl is super bad" – B.B. King
"Sizzling with every performance" –The Los Angeles Sentinel
"LadyMac was the hottest guitar player of the day" – Blues Life Magazine
"LadyMac held the audience spellbound" - BRE Magazine
"She’s a female George Benson with a taste of B.B. King"
-LA Sentinel
"…Star of the day" -Los Angeles Times
"LadyMac ripped off a series of solos that blazed with images of Jimi Hendrix and Kevin Eubanks" -LA Times
"She’s one of the most versatile, throat-cuttin’-bad, funky, hip-hop jazz guitarist in the nation, bar none." -Noteworthy Magazine
"Commanding a performance that left everyone with jaws that were dropping to the floor…" -Los Angeles Sentinel
She has received positive international (Blues Life in Vienna Austria) as well national (BRE Magazine) publication write-ups.
Ms. McMorris has appeared on television, internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally, with such credits as: China Beach, Picket Fences, Entertainment Tonight, Eye On LA, and ESPN broadcast: The X Games, among others.
She has been interviewed on the radio airways from Jakarta, Indonesia to Hollywood, CA.
Ms. McMorris plays lead guitar, rhythm guitar, upright bass, electric bass, and keyboards and is a drum programmer. She is a musician, arranger, vocalist, composer, chart writer & lyricists.
Formerly Los Angeles-based, now residing in one of the music Mecca’s of America, Kansas City MO, musician/ artist, Lois McMorris aka LadyMac originally hails from another, albeit lesser known, musical birthing ground - Omaha, Nebraska. From such urban locales as Omaha, Minneapolis, Kansas City etc., has come the heart & soul, the cerebellum and the blood, the jazz and the juice of American music. This steadily, streaming geyser of jazzy, funky, bluesy, multi-talented, creative, performing, musically-well- known or lesser-known, genius-artists that flowed from these points, has profoundly impacted American music and the music of the world…to this day.
It is on this fertile ground and from this musical genesis & heritage that LadyMac and her music proudly stands… and passionately speaks.
An artist from infancy, she is an award-winning painter & sculptor. Her works have been exhibited in several museums including Joslyn Art Museum. She is a gallery exhibiting fine artist, having recently had a successful gallery showing in Los Angeles. Her works are in private collections across the United States.
Legendary jazz icon/historian, columnist and national best selling author, the late Preston Love wrote that, "…she is the best all-around guitarist that ever came from here." (Omaha Star Newspaper). Having the same multi-genre, flexible expertise in art as music, she also been a graphic artist/designer i.e. LA Weekly and CEO of her own graphic design company, Studio Eye System.
In true renaissance fashion, a poetess and author, her written works include the book, Passages of the Transcendental Ant, an anthology of poetic works, various essays, The Littlest, Biggest Christmas (a children’s book) and art-comic magazine, Zionaya of God.
Born clairvoyant, intuitive and a natural healer, she is a Reiki II certified healer, and an ordained minister. Called a prophetess by many and now called to administer healing through her gifts of music and art, to that stead, she is in production of her forthcoming CD project and it’s accompanying tour, The Awakening Show. She resides with God & her plants, in love with her family, friends and her life, on planet Earth.
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