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Diunna Greenleaf and Blue Mercy
 Diunna
Greenleaf, the Leader of Blue Mercy is a native Texan (Houston) who has a
background steeped in gospel music. Influenced by the likes
of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Thorpe, Sam Cooke, Charles
Brown and her own parents Ben & Mary Ella Greenleaf (Gospel), she has
developed "Diunna's style of Blues" in the same tradition as so many
other great Texas blues men and women. She combines intricate patches of
jazz, gospel and heartfelt soul to create a kind of blues that takes one on an
emotional roller coaster ride.
Diunna
and her band Blue Mercy and have performed throughout the United States and
Internationally, most recently at the Lugano Blues Festival and Bern Jazz
Festival both in Switzerland, Cahors Blues Festival, and is slated to do
festivals in Canada, England, Italy, France, Virgin Islands and a return trip
to Lucern, Switzerland, as well as other performances throughout the United
States.
Diunna
has opened for and performed with the likes of Bob Margolin, Keb Mo, Willie
“Pinetop” Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, James Cotton, Carrie
Bell, Big Bill Morganfield, Smoking Joe Kubek and B’Nois King, Anson
Funderburge, Sam Meyers and the Rockets, Bernard Allison, Odetta, Rod Piazza
and the Mighty Flyers, I.J. Gosey, Sherman Robertson, Kenny Neal, the late
great Teddy “Cry Cry” Reynolds, and numerous others who have befriended her.
Diunna
was the President of the Houston Blues Society for three consecutive
years.
She made history by being the
first female ever elected to hold this position.
During her presidency she used her
professional guidance and grant writing skills to produce the Willie Mae
Thornton Blues Festival, bringing in such talent as “The Queen of Blues” Mrs.
Koko Taylor, Mr. Bernard Allison, Texas Johnny Brown, I.J. Gosey, Diane Price,
Mel Waiters, Betty Lewis, Gary Clark, Jr., Jeremy And the Hotboys, and many
others. Diunna started the annual Houston Blues Society Founders Day
and actively continued the Blues in Schools Program throughout the state.
She is one of the founders of Friends of Blues Montgomery County.
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