About
April Gislason
"Fulladosa"
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Composition/Songwriting, Harmonica
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April Singer Songwriter Musician
From a powerful ballad to hard edge rock this vocalist can sing it all.
April was born in New York City, April 1, 1955 to proud parents Victor and Lillian Fulladosa. Her father was an officer in the Marine Corp and moving around was just part of the deal. She and her younger two brothers were raised mostly in southern California with a couple of years in Texas and four years in North Carolina.
At sixteen years of age April was writing many of her own songs.
Her early experience came from performing at a popular local folk club in San Clemente, California called the “Four Muses”. There she opened for many artists, including blues icons, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. Even though April played a mean guitar she was getting lots of attention for her blues harmonica playing. Growing up in southern California, surfing movies were a big thing. She was asked to do two songs in the movie “Goin’ Surfin’” by Bud Brown, which premiered at the Santa Monica Civic. One song was a complete harmonica solo she wrote, called, “Basic Barry” and the other song was called “Sunlit Horizons”. She went into the studio with film-makers Jim Freeman...
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1979
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