Biography

Boston-based vocalist Maggie Galloway has been performing around New England for more than two decades and has led her own club band for twenty years. She has released two recordings as a leader: 1998’s More Than You Know on the Brownstone label and 2004’s Azure on her own Little Muse Records.

Her first disc was named an "Editor's Choice" by Cadence magazine in a poll of the best records of 1998, a “CD of the Week” by the Jazz Review, a "Pick of the Week" in The Boston Globe, and “Best Female Vocal Jazz CD” in Cape Town, South Africa which invited her to Cape Town to perform in 2000 and 2001. It also led to her nomination for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist of the Boston Music Awards.

Galloway grew up near Flint, Michigan where community music performance inspired her. She studied summers at Michigan’s acclaimed Interlochen Arts Academy and was awarded a scholarship to study classical voice at the University of Michigan. Her first exposure to jazz came at the university and she soon began singing with a jazz trio.

She left college for a year on the road throughout the Midwest with a Top 40 show-band, and then resumed her education at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. While at Berklee she received several awards including two DeeBee Awards from DownBeat magazine. An award from the American Collegiate Talent Search led to a U.S.O. tour of Asia and the Caribbean. After graduating from Berklee she sang with the rock band Pleasure Pointe and fusion band Nightrunners before finding her niche interpreting the American Songbook.