"Jazzy, sexy Sol" may be the program's motto, but truth is, you never know what you'll hear on the show, webcast from 3 to 5 p.m. every Wednesday.
The only guarantee is that indie artists will be featured. Singers such as SoulGreg, a blue-eyed soul belter from Slovenia, of all places. Or the sublime Bridgette Bryant, a veteran backup-singing diva whom Serena Sol cornered at the West Oak Lane Jazz Festival over the summer. Or South Jersey's own Don Ward, probably the most famous contemporary gospel singer you've never heard of. Ward's group, Lift Jesus Name, is on the Grammy nomination list this year.
"I try to represent the underdogs," says Serena Sol, whose delightful effervescence makes you understand how she appreciates all of her life's experiences, good and bad.
See, Serena Sol intimately understands how artists struggle with no financial backing but diligently work "to get their music out there and get it heard," she says.
How?
"It all goes back to my own struggles."
Music is her passion
From the time her grandfather introduced her to the piano at age 5, Kim Serena Sharpe always knew music would be her passion - despite her parents' insistence that education would be her pursuit.
But at Howard University, and later, after transferring to Ohio State - when an ill-fated marriage resulted in divorce - anything related to music became Serena Sol's primary pursuit.
She pitched songs and produced and promoted talent. She hosted concerts and deejayed. She sang backup and worked hole-in-the-wall clubs as a solo act. She even toured as a production assistant with the likes of Destiny's Child and Matchbox Twenty - all while raising three children.
