Debby Bracknell

Debby has many years of experience as a professional singer in both live settings and in the studio. She started her vocal training at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, completing an HND in Vocals, and receiving the high accolade of most outstanding vocalist of the year. She continued her studies at the Access to Music College in London where she worked towards an ATCL in Session Vocals passing with distinction. An experienced and talented singer, Debby is more than comfortable singing most styles of music and in addition to her own bands has performed both lead and backing vocals with many successful function and tribute bands and original artists across the UK and abroad. Since 2006 Debby has had extensive involvement as a backing vocalist with the jazz/funk band Shakatak performing with them in many national and international venues on tours, festivals and private gigs. Her background vocals also feature in several of their album releases. After forming a writing partnership with Shakatak’s bass player George Anderson together they have written and produced many songs and have released three successful albums ‘Positivity’, ‘Expressions’ and 'Cape Town to London'. They have just completed their 4th album 'Body & Soul' which is due for release in March 2017.