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Composer, Singer, Producer, and Playwright Marlon Saunders has worked with artists, including Michael Bublé, Sting, Angelique Kidjo, Graham Nash, Elvis Costello, Kesha, Cynthia Erivo, Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Javier Colon, Billy Joel, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Shawn Colvin, Nine Inch Nails, Jane Siberry, Shania Twain and Martha Wash.   Saunders composed the musical work, “ISAAC: A Musical Journey,” based on the published autobiographical narrative “Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave.” This new work is part of a partnership between the Kent Cultural Alliance and Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project at Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. In May 2023, Saunders and the cast of “ISAAC: A Musical Journey” headed to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for an invited workshop residency through the REACH Social Impact Theater development project.   Marlon is the CEO and founder of The Seamless Voice, a vocal coaching and artist consulting company whose clients include Broadway actress, singer, producer, and Tony-nominated actor LaChanze, “The Color Purple,” “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” and “Trouble In Mind,” Tony Award Nominee, Jaquel Spivey: “A Strange Loop,” Kimberly Marable: “Sister Act,” “The Lion King” and “Hadestown,” Rashidra Scott: “Company,” “Ain’t Too Proud-The Life And Times Of The Temptations,” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” Tony Award Nominee Celia Gooding: “Jagged Little Pill,” Dyllon Burnside: “Thoughts Of A Colored Man”, the tv series “Pose” and pop recording artist, Elle Winter. Marlon is the voice coach and vocal consultant for the animated Netflix series, “Spirit Rangers.”   From 2015 to 2017, Marlon toured with Stevie Wonder on The Songs In The Key of Life Tour as choir director. He has served as a vocal contractor for Sam Smith, Bastille, Logic, Mondo Cozmo, and Andrea Bocelli.   Marlon appears in the film Enchanted as The Calypso Singer who sings the Academy Award-nominated song “How You Know” with Amy Adams.

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