If you haven't seen her live you're in for a treat!

When Gwen “Sugar Mama” Avery is in the house, you know for sure that the music is going to be grooving. Gwen's 10 city tour in Northern Italy, with her band, commanded respect and enthusiasm for her sophisticated blues and soulful orginal songs. "If you threw Bessie Smith, Etta James, Satchmo, Ma Rainey, Nina Simone, Esther Phillips and Mahalia Jackson in a cauldron and stirred to bottom, the result would be I." With her amazing diversity of emotions the singer, pianist and songwriter combines the great Afro-American traditions, blues, and soul, the sacred and the profane. The powerful emotional voice of Gwen - a contralto wide and expressive, is gospel drenched, and a direct descendent of the late great ladies of the blues.