The Queerist

Monica Mancini runs for 2 performances only Wednesday-Thursday, Aug 4-5 at 8:00 PM. The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is located at 222 Mason Street (at Ellis), San Francisco, CA 94102. Tickets are $35 with a two-drink minimum.

Concord Records recording artist and double-Grammy nominee MONICA MANCINI, daughter of famed film composer Henry Mancini and the notable studio singer Ginny O'Conner Mancini, has carved out an impressive career as a concert performer, appearing with major symphony orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony, the New York Pops, the Boston Pops, the Dallas Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, and the London Metropolitan Orchestra.

She began singing early on as a member of the Henry Mancini Chorus, which led to a successful career in the Los Angeles studios, where she appeared on countless film scores and recordings with such notable artists as Plácido Domingo, Quincy Jones, and Michael Jackson. Her debut CD, simply titled Monica Mancini, was the companion to her PBS television special, Monica Mancini: On Record. Her latest release, the Billboard chart-topping and double Grammy-nominated Concord Records album Ultimate Mancini, finds Monica and some very special guest artists, including Stevie Wonder, Take 6, Kenny Rankin, Gary Burton, Joey DeFrancesco, and Tom Scott, paying tribute to her father.

In summer 2010, Monica Mancini will release her fifth album, I've Loved These Days, a collection of classic '60s songs featuring the original artists, including Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, and Jackson Browne, with arrangements for full orchestra. Composer John Williams writes: "Monica Mancini brings her talent, musicality, and most of all, love to the music, and proves that the passage of musical genes didn't stop with the Bachs, Strausses, or Ellingtons!"