The Gifted

Biography

The Gifted have created an exceptional stage show which continues to rival the biggest and best acts around the globe. Consisting of the finest session musicians,The Gifted perform at over 200 weddings, corporate events and private parties each and every year performing all the biggest hits from the 50’s through to modern day. Constantly updating their repertoire to reflect changing times, The Gifted offer amazing lead vocals, outstanding musicianship and entertaining interaction with your audience. The Gifted are no ordinary function band – when not performing together these accomplished, professional musicians can be found appearing in West End theatres or alongside international artists including Dave Grohl, Pulp and Westlife.

The Gifted are available with different size line ups to suit you, your function and your budget and they work as an 8 piece right down to 3 piece party band. The most popular line up is the 4 piece band consisting of 4 lead vocalists, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards although for that extra WOW factor why not augment the band by female vocals & a 3 piece brass section including Trombone, Trumpet & Saxophone. Our Line-ups are very flexible so if the line up you require isn’t listed then please contact us to discuss your requirements.• 3 piece band (guitar, bass, and drums)

• 4 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax) Our most popular line up
• 5 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax, female vocals)
• 6 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax, female vocals, and 1 brass)
• 7 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax, female vocals, 2 brass)
• 8 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax, female vocals, 3 piece brass)
• 9 piece band (guitar, bass, drums, keys/sax, female vocals, 3 piece brass, percussionist)

What we offer:

Apart from the fact The Gifted are incredibly talented and experienced musicians they also offer the following:-

• No two sets are ever the same; every set is based upon audience reaction or decided with the
  client in advance.
• The Gifted can be increased in size by adding a female vocalist, saxophone, percussion and
  anything up to a three piece brass section.
• The Gifted can supply you with a Jazz/Swing set during dinner or drinks.
• Professionally mixed recorded music is available throughout the breaks or why not hire an
  additional DJ and benefit from 30,000 classic and current hits.
• Varied & extensive experience of all types of corporate & private functions all over the
  world.
• Become the star for the night and augment your evening with a set of bandeoke (karaoke
  with a live band)
• You can leave us to make any technical or logical arrangements with your venue.
• The Gifted can provide everything you need for your evening entertainment and use a state
  of the art PA system delivering a crisp clear sound at a level to suit you & your guests.
• The Gifted’s intelligent moving light system creates a fantastic atmosphere on stage and on
  the dance floor with additional lighting available.

Sets:

The following times can be adjusted to suit your requirements, you can choose from:

• 1 x 60 minute set tailored to your tastes by The Gifted including professionally mixed music in the set breaks or an additional DJ
• 2 x 45 minute sets tailored to your tastes by The Gifted including professionally mixed music in the set breaks or
  an additional DJ
• 2 x 60 minute sets tailored to your tastes by The Gifted including professionally mixed music in the set breaks or
  an additional DJ
• 3 x 45 minute sets tailored to your tastes by The Gifted including professionally mixed music in the set breaks
  or an additional DJ

Song list

10’S

• All About that Bass – Meghan Trainor
• Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke
• Born This Way – Lady Ga Ga
• Domino – Jessie J
• Earthquake – Labrinth
• Get Lucky – Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
• Forget You – Cee Lo Green
• Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars
• Lego House – Ed Sheeran
• Locked out of Heaven – Bruno Mars
• Moves like Jagger – Maroon 5 & Christina Aquilera
• Party Rock – LMFAO
• Please Don’t Stop the Music – Rhianna
• Sexy & I Know It – LMFAO
• Treasure – Bruno Mars
• Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars
• Wake Me Up – Avicii
• Your Song – Ellie Golding

00’S

• All Summer Long – Kid Rock
• Amazed – Lonestar
• American Idiot – Green Day
• Beautiful – James Blunt
• Beat It – Micheal Jackson / Fall Out Boy
• Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
• Chelsea Dagger – The Frattellis
• Crazy Chick – Charlotte Church
• Dancing In The Moonlight – Toploader
• Don’t Stop Believing – Glee
• Everything – Micheal Buble
• Fallin – Alicia Keys
• Filthy Gorgeous – Scissor Sisters
• Grace Kelly – Mika
• Greatest Day – Take That
• Hey Ya – Outkast
• Hysteria – Muse
• Holiday – Green Day
• I Believe In A Thing Called Love – The Darkness
• I Predict A Riot – The Kaiser Chiefs
• I Don’t Feel Like Dancing – Scissor Sisters
• I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
• I Gotta Feelin’ – Black Eyed Peas
• I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry
• Jump Around – House of Pain
• Just Dance – Lady Ga Ga
• Last Nite – The Strokes
• Let’s Get it Started – Black Eyed Peas
• Mercy – Duffy
• Mr Brightside – The Killers
• Pump It – Black Eyed Peas
• Price Tag – Jessie J
• Rock DJ – Robbie Williams
• Rolling in the Deep – Adele
• Rule The World – Take That
• Ruby – The Kaisers Chiefs
• She Said – Plan B
• Shine – Take That
• Somebody Told Me – The Killers
• Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
• Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
• Take Your Mama Out – Scissor Sisters
• Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
• This Love – Maroon Five
• Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
• Valerie – Amy Winehouse
• You’ve got the Love – Florence & the Machine

90’S

• A Little Less Conversation – Elvis Presley
• A Little Respect – Wheatus
• Angels – Robbie Williams
• All the Small Things – Blink 182
• Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz
• Buck Rogers – Feeder
• Basket Case – Green Day
• Can’t Get You Outta My Head – Kylie Minoque
• Creep – Radiohead
• Cosmic Girl – Jamiroquai
• Dance The Night Away – The Mavericks
• Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
• Hit Me Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
• Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams
• Kids – Robbie Williams
• Livin’ La Vida Loca – Ricky Martin
• Like I Love You – Justin Timberlake
• Mama Told Me Not to Come – Tom Jones
• More Than Words – Extreme
• Place Your Hands – Reef
• She’s Electric – Oasis
• Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
• Still The One – Shania Twain
• This Is How You Remind Me – Nickleback
• Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
• When you Say Nothing at All – Ronan Keating
• Wonderwall – Oasis

80’S

• 9-5 – Dolly Parton
• Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
• Ain’t Nobody – Chaka Kahn
• Beat It – Micheal Jackson / Fall Out Boy
• Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
• Come Up & See Me – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
• Don’t Dream it’s Over – Crowded House
• Easy – The Commodores
• Every Breath you Take – The Police
• Footloose – Kenny Loggins
• Have I Told you Lately – Van Morrison
• Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
• I’ll Be There For You – Rembrants
• Jump – Van Halen
• Kiss – Tom Jones/Prince
• Lets Stick Together – Roxy Music
• Lets Dance – David Bowie
• Leave Your Hat On – Tom Jones
• Like a Virgin – Madonna
• Livin On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
• Love Shack – B52’S
• Message in a Bottle – The Police
• My Sharona – The Knack
• Need you Tonight – INXS
• One & Only – Chesney Hawkes
• One Step Beyond – Madness
• One Vision – Queen
• Power of Love – Huey Lewis & The News
• Hip to be Square – Huey Lewis & The News
• Rio – Duran Duran
• Rocking All Over the World – Status Quo
• Rosanna – Toto
• Simply The Best – Tina Turner
• Something got me Started – Simply Red
• Street Life – Randy Crawford
• Stuck In The Middle With You – Steelers Wheel
• Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
• Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard
• Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
• Sweet Child Of Mine – Guns & Roses
• Time of my Life – Dirty Dancing
• Wake me Up – Wham
• Walking in Memphis – Marc Cohn
• Walking on Sunshine – Katrina & The Waves
• Walking on The Moon – The Police
• Walk This Way – Aerosmith
• Weather With You – Crowded House
• Welcome To The Jungle – Guns & Roses
• With Or Without You – U2
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

70’S

• Ain’t no Stopping is Now – Mcfadden & Whitehead
• Alright Now – Free
• Blame it on the Boogie – Michael Jackson
• Brick House – Commodores
• Bohemium Rhapsody – Queen
• Car Wash – Rose Royce
• Celebration – Kool & The Gang
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
• Dancing Queen – ABBA
• December 63 (Oh What a Night) – Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
• Disco Inferno – The Trammps
• Does Your Mother Know – Abba
• Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
• Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
• Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen
• Highway to Hell – ACDC
• Its Not Unusual – Tom Jones
• I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
• Ladies Night – Kool & The Gang
• Lady Marmalade – Patti La Belle
• Le Freak – Le Chic
• Live & Let Die – Paul McCartney
• Mamma Mia – Abba
• Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
• Proud Mary – Tina Turner
• She – Elvis Costello
• Staying Alive – Bee Gees
• Stand By Me – Ben E King
• Superstition – Stevie Wonder
• Waterloo – ABBA
• We are the Champions – Queen
• Your Song – Elton John
• Y.M.C.A. – Village People

50’s, 60’S

• Burning Love – Elvis Presley
• Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
• Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
• Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
• Can’t Take My Eyes Of You – Andy Williams
• Come Together – The Beatles
• Everybody Needs Somebody To Love – The Blues Brothers
• Gimme Some Lovin – The Blues Brothers
• Hey Jude – The Beatles
• Hotel California – The Eagles
• Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
• I Feel Good – James Brown
• I’m A Believer – The Monkees
• Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
• Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
• Knock on Wood – Blues Brothers
• La Bamba – Los Lobos
• Land of Thousand Dances – Wilson Pickett (Naaaa, Na Na Naaa)
• Lovely Day – Bill Withers
• Layla – Derek & The Dominos
• Midnight Hour – The Commitments
• Mustang Sally – The Commitments
• My Generation – The Who
• Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
• Rescue Me – Aretha Franklin
• Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley
• Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
• Sex Machine – James Brown
• Stand by Me – Ben E King
• Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
• Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
• Suspicous Minds – Elvis Presley
• Think – Aretha Franklin
• Twist & Shout – The Beatles
• Why Do You Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations
• Wild Thing – The Troggs
• Walking By Myself – Gary Moore
• Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
• You Really Got Me – The Kinks

Classic Ballads

• Angels – Robbie Williams
• Amazed – Lonestar
• Beautiful – James Blunt
• Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
• Don’t Dream Its Over – Crowded House
• Don’t Stop Believin – Journey / Glee
• Every Breath You Take – The Police
• Everything – Micheal Buble
• Falling – Alicia Keys
• Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison
• I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
• Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
• More Than Words – Extreme
• She – Elvis Costello
• Still The One – Shania Twain
• Stand By Me – Ben E King
• Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
• Weather With You – Crowded House
• When You Say Nothing At All – Ronan Keating
• Your Song – Elton John
• We are the Champions – Queen
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• With Or Without You – U2

Isreali dancing

Hora Medley including…

• Siman Tov
• Moshiach
• Hevenu Shalom
• Alecheim Mazel Tov
• Dodi Li
• Hava Nagila
• Erev Shel Shoshanim
• Oseh Shalom

Christmas

• All I Want For Christmas – Maria Carey
• I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
• Merry Christmas Everybody – Slade

Sample of Jazz & Swing

• A Night In Tunisia
• All Blues
• All By Myself
• All Of Me
• All The Things You Are
• Anthropology
• April In Paris
• Autumn Leaves
• Beyond the Sea
• Blue Bossa
• Blue In Green
• Blue Monk
• Call Me Irresponsible
• Come Fly With Me
• Dancing On The Ceiling
• Dolphin Dance
• Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
• Dream A Little Dream Of Me
• Freddie Freeloader
• Fly Me To the Moon
• God Bless’ The Child
• Have You Met Miss Jones?
• Here’s That Rainy Day
• How High The Moon
• I Love You
• I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
• In A Sentimental Mood
• Or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby
• It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
• Limehouse Blues
• Lullaby Of Birdland
• Mack The Knife
• Maiden Voyage
• Misty
• Mood Indigo
• Mr Bojangles
• Mr. P.C.
• My Funny Valentine
• My Way
• Night Train
• Oleo
• One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)
• Ornithology
• Out Of Nowhere
• Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
• Satin Doll
• Sidewinder
• So What
• Song For My Father
• Stella By Starlight
• Straight No Chaser
• Take Five
• Take The ‘A’ Train
• That’s Amore
• The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema)
• Well You Needn’t (It’s Over Now)
• When I Fall In Love
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

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