In 2019 & 2020, Vanessa won the Blues Music Award for “Horn Player of the Year”. Vanessa has also been Nominated 5 times for "Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year" (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 & most recently in 2023), winning the award in 2022!!
Vanessa Collier delivers head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances as a master musician who weaves Blues, Funk, Soul, R&B, and Rock into every show. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone, and witty songwriting, Vanessa is blazing a trail, racking up an impressive arsenal of honors. Vanessa has already singled herself out as an artist of distinction having been Nominated for 9 Blues Music Awards since 2017, winning 3 of them.
A 2013 graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Vanessa Collier has toured nationally and internationally, and released four critically acclaimed albums (2014’s 'Heart, Soul & Saxophone', 2017’s 'Meeting My Shadow', 2018’s 'Honey Up', and 2020’s 'Heart On The Line'. 'Honey Up' spent 9 weeks atop the Billboard Blues Chart in the Top 15, 3 months on the Living Blues Charts at #10, and continues to be spun on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville radio station.