Biography

Ability. Beauty. Charisma. Energy. And a clear, powerful voice that’ll flat knock the earpads off your iPod.
Meet Maryline Blackburn. One of those artists who comes along once in a Blue Alaskan Moon and simply personifies the word "Entertainer."


Born in Europe to a career military family, Maryline spent her formative years in Fairbanks Alaska where, with the encouragement of her mother, she developed her musical skills and eventually began competing in regional pageants. She credits this early training with giving her the poise and confidence to command the stage before large audiences.

In the mid eighties, Maryline won the Miss Alaska Pageant and then went on to represent Alaska in the Miss America Scholarship Pageant where she won the Talent Finalist Scholarship award.

Maryline is a singer with a wide spectrum of performing experiences. She has performed with and opened for such legends of entertainment business as Bob Hope, and Cab & Chris Calloway, The Platters and such contemporary icons as Celine Deon, Peabo Bryson, Phyllis Hyman and the group Exile. Maryline has appeared in venues as varied as Barry*s Place in Cancun Mexico, The Famous Bluebird Cafe*in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Buckboard Country Music Showcase in Marietta Georgia, where she performed country music classics; the Ritz Carlton Hotels nationwide and internationally in Spain, Argentina, England, Ireland, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Japan while touring with The Platters and The USO/Department of Defense.

Maryline*s musical style can best be described as progressive, incorporating elements of Urban Contemporary, main stream Pop, Country and Western, Old School Romantic R&B, with a touch of the power and deep spiritual feeling of Gospel Music. She currently has her first CD*s available entitled *Maryline*, and she is currently working on her second CD *Just Because* which will consist entirely of her original compositions.

When you put it all together you have Maryline Blackburn, a complete polished professional, able to meet the entertainment demands of any audience, regardless of the setting, be it an intimate night club or lounge, a concert hall, arena or convention event. She is a gifted communicator, able to get her message across using the universal language of music to reach out and touch the common core shared by all humanity no matter what the native language of the audience.

Once you have reviewed this package and you have heard her voice, you to will be a believer in the unique blend of warmth, energy and uncompromised talent that is Maryline Blackburn.