This petite and powerful performer can steal your heart in one moment and then turn around and melt you with her passion.. She'll send a shiver up your spine, causing what Quincy Jones aptly described as “truth marks”, singing stories as though she were talking just to you. Cynthia carries on in the Blue Eyed Soul tradition. Her heroes are Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Tina Turner. She has been singing along with their records since she was a child on her parent’s coffee table.

In her illustrious career, she has recorded 5 national and international hit records, including covers of REMEMBER ME/AIN’ T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH, CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU, BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN, STAND, and CHAIN REACTION. As the original and only touring lead singer for the Boys Town Gang, she has been embraced by the dance community in a BIG WAY. Cynthia's performance record in America is hard to match, as she has performed in every major city, time and time again, as well as many small town venues and lounges, at their invitation. Whether it be a small number of music lovers or thousands of cheering fans, Cynthia gives 100%, when singing and performing.

Her music has also taken her to Japan ( 2 tours ), China, Oman, Brazil ( 3 tours ), South America, Italy ( 2 tours ), Switzerland, France, England, Ireland, Germany, and Spain.

One role Cynthia played was Janis Joplin, in a one woman play filled with singing. It was a successful run and gave Cynthia some much enjoyed theatrical training.

She was one of 10 artists to perform at the International New Music Seminar, in New York City.

Cynthia was named one of the Top 20 Artists of the Year, in Billboard magazine. Ms. Manley is most proud of her military tours. She has taken bands into Iraq, Bosnia, Baghdad, Kosovo, Korea, and many other places of danger for our troops, where she and her team had to wear flack jackets and bullet proof vests in 130* heat or freezing cold weather. On one base, only 23 soldiers were allowed to come to the performance because they were under alert. Cynthia began dancing with soldiers while singing, giving them a moment of peace, bringing tears to our brave men's faces. That is the kind of performer she is! Cynthia has composed 4 tunes that made it into produced and released movies. She has sung many commercials, both for radio and TV. Her background vocal group, in Los Angeles, has been on a dozen nationally recognized blues records. She has co-written and produced 4 “do it yourself ” CDs, including a Christmas CD.

In April of 2009, while touring Switzerland, she met Jamie Lewis, the hit making producer from Purple Music. They hit it off and now have recording dates set for the end of September, 2009. “How exciting it is to be doing what I love so much. I am one grateful woman !

WHERE HAS CYNTHIA PERFORMED?
Corporate Venues:

Microsoft
AON/Albert G. Ruben Insurance
PGI/Melon Bank
California Leisure Consultants
- Los Angeles
Delphi User's Group (DUAG)
Edison Electronic Institute
Halstead
Hoeschst Marion Rousell
Levi Strauss
Maritz Travel Company
Nordstroms
Parke Davis Pharmaceuticals
Rhome-Poulenc
Conferon
Searle Phamaceuticals
McGettigan Partners
Peoplesoft
Carlson Marketing Group

Clubs:

B.B. King's - Universal Studios
Deer Lodge - Ojai
Fire Island
Harvelles
Keynote Lounge
Lingerie
Nicholby's
Perq's
Point 705
Ripples
River Business
Sandpiper
Starboard Attitude
St. Mark's

Restaurants:

Alexanders
Augusta Restaurant & Patio Bar
Blue Café
Bombay Bar & Grill
Boot Scooters
Ottavios
Paradise Piano Bar & Restaurant
Rusty Pelican
Shady's
The Shores
The Warehouse
Tony P's
Whales Tail
Events:

Laguna Sawdust Arts Festival
Culver City Music Festival
Concert Bys the Sea - Channel Islands Harbor
Garden Party - Palm Desert
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach Market Place
Monte Carlo Night - Long Beach
Palm Desert Resort & Country Club
Portland Blues Festival
Redondo Beach Cultural Arts Festival
Strawberry Festival - Oxnard
Best of L.A. - Universal Studios
Ventura Food and Wine Festival
Long Beach Gay Pride
Channel Island Food & Wine Festival
Seabee Days - Port Hueneme
Long Beach Farmers Market
Palm Springs Gay Pride
San Francisco Gay Pride
Manhattan Beach Concerts in the Park
American Cancer Society
Huntington Beach Summer Music Festival
Tucson Gay Pride
Redondo Beach Lobster Festival
San Pedro Music by the Sea
Harvest International Arts & Music Festival
Downtown on Ice at Pershing Square
Downtown Alhambra Concerts
Long Beach Masquerade - 2002


Hotels:


Barnabey's
Bel Age
Bicycle Club
Commerce Casino
Great Wall Sheraton - Beijing, China
Hilton
Holiday Inn
Hotel Queen Mary
Hyatt Westlake Village
Long Beach Hyatt
Westlake Inn
Hotel Intercontinental - Muscat, Oman

CYNTHIA'S REPERTOIRE:

Rhythm & Blues

Chain of Fools
Clean-Up Woman
Fever
Baby I Love You
Freeway of Love
Get This Party Started
Girls Just Want To Have Fun Fallin'
Give Me One Reason
Grapevine
Groovin'
Groove Me
I Feel Good
Knock On Wood
Midnight Hour
Mr. Big Stuff
Mustang Sally
Proud Mary
Respect
Rock Me Baby
Rock Steady
Sexomatic
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Son of a Preacher Man
Soul Man
Tell Mama
Tina's Blues
Upside Down

Ballads

At Last
Blue Bayou
Do You Want to Dance
Ain't No Sunshine
Dock of the Bay
Dr. Feelgood
Fallin'
I Can't Make You Love Me
Let's Get It On
Never Loved a Man
Since I Fell For You
Sweet Thing
Tell It Like It Is
The Rose
The Thrill Is Gone
Time After Time

 

Pop/Rock

Black Velvet
Bobby McGee Cross Town Traffic
Fire
Hang On Sloopy
Honky Tonk Woman
I'm The Only One
I Will Survive
Kansas City
Lucille
Nutbush City Limits
Old Time Rock & Roll
Piece of My Heart
Pink Cadillac
Spooky
Twist & Shout
We Are Family
You Oughta Know

 

Originals

Ain't Gonna Let Him In
Captain
Free As A Bird
He Lost His Heart
I Like Me Better Now
I Love James Brown
I Want Him Back
I'll Be Your Shelter
Life's Sweetest Things
Man's Got Talent



 

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