Portland’s Pink Martini is celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year. The festivities include a massive North American tour and the release of new music this Summer and Fall. Now, they share the ...

Pink Martini, the Portland, Oregon, band known for its eclectic blending of jazz, Latin and classical music, is celebrating its 30th anniversary, which caught singer China Forbes off guard. “It’s so ...

Hello, Vermont music fans! It’s been more than three years since my last Soundbites column, and I’m happy to be back. Current music editor Chris Farnsworth asked me to fill in this week while he ...

The story goes that in the fall of 1994, Thomas Lauderdale — a pianist with an eye toward politics and an ear toward music — found himself the very impromptu show opener at a Portland, Ore., ...

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FARGO — Classical singers will often learn a few additional languages to sing in Italian, German or French. “I never thought I’d sing in Japanese. Or Turkish. Or Arabic,” she says. Fans can hear ...

Pink Martini co-lead singer China Forbes says diversity and inclusivity set her band apart from the rest — aside from the 12 to 13 others with whom she shares the stage. This “little orchestra,” as ...

Balancing a band and a solo career isn’t easy. What’s enabled singer-songwriter China Forbes to do so is that she allows her band, Pink Martini, to also tour with vocalist Storm Large. “It’s an ...

Pink Martini will return to Spokane as they celebrate 30 years with two performances at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. The Portland-based band was originally founded after pianist Thomas ...

Wild Child: Indie-pop. 8 p.m. at The Heights Theater, 339 W. 19th; 214-272-8346. Night Drive: Electro-pop. 9 p.m. at White Oak Music Hall upstairs, 2915 N. Main; 713-237-0370. Onda Stereo: Soda Stereo ...

Pink Martini’s music has always had a depth you can’t quite put your finger on. It’s evocative of a simpler time, when Sinatra still ruled and things hadn’t quite gone off the rails yet. Even though ...

Growing up, she loved and endlessly listened to the music of Donna Summer. But China Forbes had something the disco-diva never had — the ability to sing in more than a dozen languages. And Forbes, the ...