Eden Brent

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nameEden Brent
imageRBF 2009 Eden Brent 04.jpg
captionEden Brent performing at the Rawa Blues Festival in Poland, 2009
backgroundsolo_singer
birth_date
death_date
birth_placeGreenville, Mississippi, United States
instrumentsPiano, vocals
genreBlues, boogie-woogie
occupationsMusician
years_active1994–present
labelYellow Dog Records
websiteedenbrent.com
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Eden Brent (born November 16, 1965, in Greenville, Mississippi, United States) is an American musician on the independent Yellow Dog Records label. A blues pianist and vocalist, she combines boogie-woogie with elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop. Her vocal style has been compared to Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Aretha Franklin. She took lessons from Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, a traditional blues and boogie woogie piano player and eventually earned the nickname "Little Boogaloo."

In 2006, she won the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge. Along with other awards, Brent garnered two 2009 Blues Music Awards - one for Acoustic Artist of the Year, the other for Acoustic Album of the Year (Mississippi Number One). At The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2015, Eden Brent won the award in the "Holiday Song" category for "Valentine". In 2025, Brent was given the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player' title at the Blues Music Awards.

History

Eden Brent was born in 1965 and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, where she attended Washington School. Brent studied jazz and music at the University of North Texas, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Music.

When she was 16, Eden Brent met the late blues pioneer, Abie Ames, and began to teach herself how to play his style. Brent has said, ::quote "By the time I was 19, I’d nearly become sort of a groupie. I’d go hear him and request certain songs because I wanted to hear them and sort of watch over his shoulder a bit and watch the way he was playing. Sometimes I’d request the same thing over and over and then go home and try to learn it. Finally, after a few failures of not being able to pick it up on my own I was bold enough to ask him to teach me."In 1985, Ames took her under his wing for 16 years, nicknaming her Little Boogaloo. This apprenticeship advanced Brent’s talents. She was featured alongside Ames in the 1999 PBS documentary, Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound, and in the 2002 South African production Forty Days in the Delta.

Since launching her career, Eden travels the United States and abroad performing in festivals such as Notodden, the Chicago Blues Festival, Cognac's Blues Passions, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She is a frequent piano bar host aboard the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise.

==Awards== ;Won *2009: "Acoustic Artist of The Year" by the Blues Foundation *2009: "Acoustic Album of Year" by the Blues Foundation *2010: "Pinetop Perkins Piano Player" by the Blues Foundation *2015: "Holiday Song" award for "Valentine" - 2015 14th Annual Independent Music Awards *2025: "Pinetop Perkins Piano Player" by the Blues Foundation

;Nominated

  • 2008: "Sean Costello Rising Star Award" by the Blues Blast Music Awards
  • 2008: "Blues Song Of The Year" by the Blues Critic Awards Reader's Poll for "Mississippi Number 1"
  • 2009: "Blues Album of the Year" by the Just Plain Folks Music Awards for "Mississippi Number 1"
  • 2009: "Blues Song of the Year" by the Just Plain Folks Music Awards for "Until I Die"
  • 2009: "Best New Artist Debut" by the Blues Foundation for Mississippi Number 1
  • 2009: "Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year" by the Blues Foundation
  • 2009: "Blues Song Of The Year" finalist at the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for "Mississippi Flatland Blues"
  • 2009: "Blues Artist of The Year" by the Living Blues Awards
  • 2009: "Best New Artist Debut Recording" by the Blues Blast Music Awards
  • 2009: "Best Female Artist" by the Blues Blast Music Awards
  • 2009: "Sean Costello Rising Star Award" by the Blues Blast Music Awards
  • 2010: "Most Outstanding Musician – Keyboard" by the Living Blues Awards
  • 2011: "Blues Album, Adult Contemporary Song" for The Independent Music Awards

==Discography== *2003: Something Cool (Little Boogaloo Records) *2008: Mississippi Number One (Yellow Dog Records) *2010: Ain't Got No Troubles (Yellow Dog Records) *2014: Jigsaw Heart (Yellow Dog Records) *2018: An Eden Brent Christmas (with Bob Dowell) (Yellow Dog Records) *2024: Getaway Blues (Yellow Dog Records)

==References== {{Reflist|refs = {{cite news | title = Eden Brent: A Biography | first = Charles | last = Jordan | url = http://mswritersandmusicians.com/musicians/eden-brent.html | newspaper = | publisher = Mississippi Writers and Musicians | date = | access-date = 2013-03-12 }}

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{{cite news | title = Bio | url = http://www.edenbrent.com/bio.html | newspaper = | publisher = EdenBrent.com | date = | access-date = 2013-03-12 }}

{{cite news |title = Blues Music Awards 2012 |first = Keith |last = Gordon |url = http://blues.about.com/od/bluesawards/a/Blues-Music-Awards-2012.htm |newspaper = |publisher = About.com |date = |access-date = 2013-03-12 |archive-date = 2016-04-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160425210832/http://blues.about.com/od/bluesawards/a/Blues-Music-Awards-2012.htm |url-status = dead }} {{cite news |title=Eden Brent |url=http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/bios/brent.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415061611/http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/bios/brent.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-15 |publisher=Lowell Folk Festival |access-date=2013-03-12 }} {{cite news | title = Eden Brent | first = | last = | url = http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/artist/eden-brent/ | newspaper = | publisher = The Independent Music Awards | date = | access-date = 2013-03-12 }}

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==External links==

[[Category:1965 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Blues musicians from Mississippi]] [[Category:American blues singers]] [[Category:American blues pianists]] [[Category:Boogie-woogie pianists]] [[Category:Musicians from Greenville, Mississippi]] [[Category:Singers from Mississippi]] [[Category:University of North Texas College of Music alumni]] [[Category:20th-century American pianists]] [[Category:21st-century American pianists]] [[Category:21st-century American women pianists]] [[Category:20th-century American women musicians]] ::

References

  1. Freeman, Clare. (May 14, 2025). "2025 Blues Music Awards Winners".
  2. "Eden Brent, Mississippi blues musician and student of Boogaloo Ames".
  3. Interview w/ Eden Brent, [http://americanamusicshow.com/episode201 Americana Music Show episode 201] {{Webarchive. link. (2014-08-06 , published 4 August 2014.)
  4. Art Tipaldi. (2009-02-01). "''Blues Revue, Issue #116 New Women of The Blues''".
  5. Cypress Bend Productions and Mississippi Educational Television. (2009-02-01). "''Sustaining The Sound, public television documentary''".
  6. "Eden Brent - Bio".
  7. (2006-01-29). "''2006 International Blues Challenge results''".
  8. Tom Clarke. (2008-06-01). "''Elmore review''".
  9. Josh Hathaway. (2008-04-15). "''Music Review: Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One''".
  10. (2009-05-09). "''2009 Blues Awards recipients''".

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