About jolie goodnight
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Jolie Goodnight is a burlesque singer/songwriter, producer and multi-award winner at the Texas Burlesque Festival and other prestigious events. Hailing from Austin, Texas, she has been producing and performing burlesque across the globe for 15 years, with city appearances including London, New York, LA and Belfast.
She is an accomplished recording artist having released two albums and EPs. Across radio, print and TV, Jolie has attracted many press interviews building her reputation for over a decade and is a sought after artist featuring at major shows including her own co-production, the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue. A dynamic presence she has modelled for brands such as Secrets in Lace, Lucky Lou and Vivienne of Holloway.
Although she is hailed as “... a voice that could melt a stone heart,” (MOJO Magazine) Goodnight is well known for her dirty blues tunes and surprising audiences with a larger than life voice, a voice that’s been said to “drip from her mouth like sweet molasses.” In 2017 she starred as Texas Burlesque legend Candy Barr in "STRIP! The Musical" as well as New York burlesque legend Honey Harlow.
She released her debut album "Say Goodnight Gracey" and sophomore album “First Time Again!” to much critical acclaim, and is the winner of “Audience Choice" and “Best Tease” at the Texas Burlesque Festival as well as runner up Miss Viva Las Vegas. Growing up in a showbiz family, Goodnight has shared the stage with stellar music icons as Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Chris Stapleton, Sam Palladio, as well as modern and legendary icons of burlesque.
She’s is a Producer of the Award-Winning Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue, Producer of Les Bijoux Burlesque, and Producer of the Stardust Burlesque Revue in Austin, Texas as well as the creator of podcast “Made of Stardust” and front-woman for rockabilly band Jolie and The Jackalopes and swing band, Jolie Goodnight & Her Stardust Band. As your “Beacon in the Night” Jolie Goodnight has toured nationally and internationally and has performed at Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend (BHOF weekender,) Colorado Burlesque Festival, The Windy City Burlesque Festival, New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Southwest Burlesque Festival, the Perth Fringe Festival in Australia, and more!
“Jolie Goodnight is exactly the kind of voice us vocal jazz lovers hope to hear from the new generation.”
- Esther Berlanga-Ryan, Something Else! Reviews
Jolie Goodnight is a creative tour-de-force, an international jazz and rockabilly singer who is, “…steamy and seductive in a lovably old fashioned way.” (Knoxville News.) Hailing back to the days of glitz and glamour, Jolie Goodnight has dazzled audiences around the world with classic fan dances and sensational singing. Although she is hailed as “… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart,” (MOJO Magazine) Goodnight is well known for her dirty blues tunes and surprising audiences with a larger than life voice, a voice that’s been said to “drip from her mouth like sweet molasses.” She has been a member of the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue since October of 2010, after performing with Hell on Heels in San Diego from 2007 to 2009. She released her debut album "Say Goodnight Gracey" in 2011 and was Miss Tiki Oasis 2015, 2nd Runner Up Miss Viva Las Vegas 2012, and was the winner of "Best Tease" and "Audience Choice" of the Texas Burlesque Festival in 2011. Luxuriating always in a performer’s life, she is also the bandleader and singer for rockabilly band, Jolie and The Jackalopes, as well as Jolie Goodnight & Her Swing Band. She tours internationally gracing the stages at The Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend, The Windy City Burlesque Festival, New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Southwest Burlesque Festival, Dallas Burlesque Festival, Houston Burlesque Festival and more!
Daughter of the legendary record producer Joe Gracey and singer song-writer Kimmie Rhodes, Goodnight was born in Austin, Texas into a world-wide showbiz life falling asleep in guitar cases backstage to the lullaby of the voices of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, rockabilly queens and cosmic country heroes. A classically trained actress and dancer at St. Edward’s University and The University of San Diego, she has performed in productions including “Footloose,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “The Way of the World.” As a pin up model she has been featured in Rockabilly Magazine, Retro Lovely, Pin Curl Magazine, Bachelor Pad, Pin Up Playing Cards, Texas Women with Texas Tattoos, and The Austin Post. Something Else Reviews describes her as “exactly the kind of voice us vocal jazz lovers hope to hear from the new generation,” simply put, she’s your beacon in the night.
“To overcome this musical ennui, a tender, sultry, beautiful voice is a necessary remedy. Jolie Goodnight has that.”
“A superb modern recreation of the glories of the past.”
“...Jolie Goodnight has one of the most beautiful singing voices I’ve ever heard. ”
“What a grand evening! Reputations were tarnished, hot jazz piano was played, Jolie Goodnight lit up the stage”
“Jazz and singer, modern burlesque performer Jolie Goodnight is one of those wonderful surprises — an artist whose vocal style has the maturity of a singer who has been around the block but the freshness and energy of a brand new talent — which she happens to be.”
“… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart.”
“Goodnight has all the necessary elements to make her a favorite of anybody’s heart”
“My god, Jolie Goodnight singing…pure Jessica Rabbit!”
“Sometimes when I see Jolie perform, I forget to take pictures because her voice alone is so beautiful.”
“…steamy and seductive in a lovably old fashioned way.”
“her voice is a gift from above”
“…a quirkily arranged exercise in musical nostalgia showcasing her seductive versions of timeless standards”
“if she sang the phone book to you it would sound sexy”
“Splendid stuff.”
“always a crowd pleaser!”
“smooth-voiced chanteuse”
“What a performance!…The tease was the icing on the cake…they were so captivated and so mesmerized by her singing and her stage presence they didn’t need anything else.”
“…seductive siren, Jolie Goodnight, a muse not to be missed.””
“A dishwater blond-turned-flame-haired beauty who dazzles audiences as she sings jazz standards and does a striptease at the same time.”
“a flowery vibrato reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe makes numbers like These Foolish Things as melt-in-your-mouth as candyfloss.”
“Jolie sang, “My Daddy Rocks Me”, with a powerful, sultry voice that dripped from her mouth like sweet molasses”
JOLIE & THE JACKALOPES
THE JIGGLEWATTS BURLESQUE REVUE