Soul Allegiance

Soul Allegiance is a firm family favourite - their repertoire is vast, so there really is something for everyone. Soul Allegiance is regularly booked for weddings and joint birthday parties where both the young and the young at heart can completely indulge in both the classics that everyone loves as well as the more current numbers that get the room jumping. Their speciality lies in Motown, soul, hip hop, RnB, pop and dance party anthems. Soul Allegiance comes as a 6-piece band, their standard lineup is two lead female vocals, guitar, bass, keys, and drums. They can downsize to a 5-piece, and upsize if you’d prefer. The number of positive reviews that this team gets is nearly countless. Every single show is a success with clients coming back raving about their “absolutely spectacular performance” and mentioning things like how they are “slick, polished, [and] insanely talented”. This band was actually our first middle-sized band that really took off in The Supreme Collective. It remains one of our most popular setups, quite possibly because it straddles the space between a small outfit and a big band meaning it’s got that wow factor, and at the same time isn’t going to overpower the room. With keys in the lineup, the band can recreate those horn sounds that you hear in so many of those fabulous soul and Motown songs. That being said, the band can add a live brass section should you wish to go down that route. Soul Allegiance is fronted by Kedesha and Emma-May. These fantastic vocalists' voices meld together in perfection and have an abundance of chemistry together. Kedesha has a particularly RnB tone to her voice in part thanks to all the original recordings she's done, and Emma-May’s beautiful soulful tones are reminiscent of legends like Aretha and Diana Ross. Kedesha and Emma-May’s vocal expertise and incredibly professional and sweet personalities coupled with the band’s outstanding musicianship will win you and all of your guests around from the first song. Kedesha, and Emma-May, who frequently flexes their vocal cords with a choir group that has gone on tour with Peter Andre, Beverly Knight, The Feeling, Josh Groban, and Jamie Cullum, and is supported by Chris on guitar, Ewan on bass, Pete on keys, and Josh on drums. Collectively they have all studied at some of the most prestigious musical educational facilities in the UK, including Brit School, the British Institute of Modern Music, and the British Academy of New Music; have played with the likes of Emeli Sande, Ellie Goulding, Little Mix, Elle Exxe, Gary ‘Mudbone’ Cooper (of Parliament Funkadelic), Nate James, Imelda May, David Stewart (Eurythmics), Hollie Stephenson, Lenny Henry, Stone Bramsen (Alphabeat), Barbara Moleko and Mollie King (of The Saturdays); have supported Robbie Williams, Rudimental, Omar, and Ronan Keating; have performed at Isle of White Festival, Newquay Beach Break Festival, The Full Ponty, GuilFest, Evolution Festival, SXSW Festival, and Notting Hill Carnival; toured the UK, Europe, and USA; have played at the renowned 100 Club, O2 Arena, O2 Islington, Jazz Café, and Versuz (one of Europe’s largest nightclubs); and have been played on Capital FM, Sunday Brunch and BBC Radio 2 as well. I think you’ll agree that they've more than earned their stripes. Kedesha and Emma-May lead the way in Soul Allegiance as they belt out the band's pop, RnB, and soul repertoire, from artists such as Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, and Bruno Mars. The band has a repertoire of over 400 songs covering the 1950s to the current top 40 including genres such as Motown, soul, hip hop, RnB, and pop, though their repertoire also covers funk, rock, retro pop, rock n roll, country, indie, jazz, disco, dance, gospel, swing, jazz, blues, Israeli, reggae as well as Christmas genres. Soul Allegiance welcomes you to tailor the setlist for your big day. For a standard 2x60 mins or 3x40mins performance you can select up to 15 songs from the band’s 400+ song repertoire, and the band will endeavour to accommodate all of your requests, given a month’s notice. For short notice bookings, you are still very welcome to send over your suggestions, and as always, the band will do their utmost to accommodate as many requests as possible. Soul Allegiance is also very happy to learn an ‘off the menu’ song request for you, for example, a first dance or your favourite song. Upon booking, you will have a dedicated band manager as your point of contact to ensure the band is 100% on the same page as you well in advance of your event. Having this point of contact means you can count on excellent, fast, friendly, and warm communication at all times. It also means that come the big day every single crease will be ironed out and it will mean smooth sailing for both client and band alike. All in all, Soul Allegiance’s band members are a very friendly and flexible bunch and take great pride in providing excellent musicianship and creating a really fun atmosphere wherever they go. The band has a big long list of songs spanning different genres and decades for you to pick from and can play complimentary playlist music (which you are welcome to tailor) before, in-between, and after live sets until curfew. The band can be on-site for up to 7 hours, or until midnight as standard. They are happy to accommodate early arrivals before 5pm and late stays after midnight if needed too. The band is also able to provide a band member DJ-ing should you wish to have a live DJ before, between, or after band sets. The band brings a full PA and lighting rig with them wherever they go, so all you need to do is book the band and you can tick the entertainment off your to-do list in one fell swoop because Soul Allegiance will have you covered. The band also offers the option to perform Israeli dancing sets - we have two vocalists within The Supreme Collective who are fantastic at singing Israeli songs, one of whom is one of our lead male vocalist-guitarists, Paolo, and the other is our fantastic lead female vocalist, Najwa. Similarly, our musicians are well-versed in the most fun and uptempo versions of the Israeli family favourites such as Hava Nagila, Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and so forth. The Israeli dancing can be booked as an Add On and we do also offer Israeli ceremony music too. If you've any questions about the band and what they offer please don't hesitate, we’ll be more than happy to help.