  
MUSICAL BIO
TAMARA GROSS
March
2000-present
CHARTS FOR CHURCHES - full-time ministry/career
member/vocalist:
Discovery Church
Orlando
- 2005-2006
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non-music missions - volunteering - travel
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2005: Tsunami Relief - South India (Adventures In Missions)
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2005: Katrina Relief - Pass Christian, Mississippi (Campus Crusade)
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2006: Katrina Relief - Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (Habitat For Humanity)
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- 1999-2001
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Concert booker/promoter
for Chicago District Camp
Ground Association
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Solo concerts
at local churches & coffee houses in Central Florida & Midwest
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- 1998
Vocal Director,
Six
Flags Great America: "Buffalo Saloon" show
Coffee houses
& outdoor concerts (with bands & solo)
1989-1998
Music &
video arranger & performer for contemporary church
(Hawthorn Hills Community
Church)
1996
Full-time
Chicagoland freelance singer/songwriter/arranger, graphic arts, multimedia
1995-1996
Musical orchestrator,
vocal director & female lead understudy for Stage Door Theatre Company:
"Christmas On The Air"
1992-1994
Music Director,
Mrs. Illinois USA Pageants
1991
&1994
National
Anthem performed at Cougars (AAA Baseball) game
1993
"USAction"
project recorded for 300 missionaries worldwide
1992
Month-long
solo "musicianary" tour throughout Central & Eastern Europe
"Passport
To Heaven" project for European distribution to refugees & nationals
Performed
solo National Anthem at Wrigley Field Chicago Cubs game
Prize winning
"Fantasmic" (original scored musical drama on cassette)
1990-1992
Jingles &
themes for WGN Radio
Chicago
1988-1989
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Administrative
work for Benson Records
& Star Song Records (full time), Nashville, TN
Studio gigs
with songwriters & artists, Nashville, TN
1986-1987
"Celebration
I & II" Christmas projects
1985-1987
Regional
tour with popular Chicagoland band Providence
1976-1978
Nationwide
tour with family (playing tuba): TV (Bozo's Circus), radio, festivals/state fairs
Cover photos
on TubaChristmas album, Instrumentalist magazine, midwest papers as participant
in TubaChristmas organization
Personal Background:
single/never
married; loves dog Lallow
Grew up in
Chicagoland in a showbiz family (with a wacky "Disney-esque"
dad, a full-time musician and inventor); Tamara became a tuba player as
a child, believing herself tone deaf until age 15 when her gift of song
flourished as she committed her life to Christ at the Methodist Camp Grounds in Des Plaines, IL, where she
has spent every summer of her life; Moved to Nashville, TN for one year
to learn about the music biz (worked at Star Song Records) before moving
back to Chicagoland in 1989 to co-found a new inter-denominational church
(Hawthorn Hills Community
Church) with a passion for unchurched suburbanites; Current music ministry
vision was forged following father's 1996 death
Moved to
Central Florida 1999
EXPERIENCE:
professional performer since 1976 (Bozo's Circus mid 70s); a singer in popular 80s power-vocals
band (Providence); radio jingles/themes (WGN); Music Director (Mrs. Illinois Pageants); church
music arranger/multimedia/graphic arts (Hawthorn Hills Community Church)
PASSIONS:
seeing believers & unbelievers (especially those with inner conflicts
of addictions & self-esteem issues) come to know God as He designed
for us to know Him; using creative gifts (music & novel writing) to
impact people's lives; meeting basic needs of those impacted by natural disaster & other community devastation; travel to see this great big small world
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