Deborah Coleman (October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018) RIP Deborah Coleman, Making a Scene!, April 13, 2018 was an American blues musician. Coleman won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001, and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Blues Music Award nine times.
Biography Coleman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia She graduated in 1974 from Deep Creek High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. She worked in various professions, including as a master electrician, before pursuing a career in the music business.
Her album Time Bomb (2007) featured three women blues musicians: Coleman, Sue Foley and Roxanne Potvin.
Coleman died unexpectedly on April 12, 2018, in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, from complications brought on by bronchitis and pneumonia.
Selective discography
Albums YearTitleGenreLabel1995Takin' a StandBlues/RockNew Moon1997I Can't LoseBlues-RockBlind Pig1998Where Blue BeginsBlues/RockBlind Pig2000Soft Place to FallBlues/RockBlind Pig2001Livin' on LoveBlues/RockNew Moon2002Soul Be ItBlues/RockBlind Pig2004What About Love?BluesTelarc2007Stop the GameBlues/RockJSP
Compilation albums YearTitleGenreLabelNotes2007Time BombBlues RockRuf (Idn)with Sue Foley & Roxanne Potvin
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