Right around the turn of the century, The South City Voices began to emerge onto the Atlanta music scene. Several years earlier, charter members Don Discenza, Derk Simonson, and Rebecca Windham, while developing their own solo careers, experienced a variety of permutations under several different names throughout a 5 year period before the group came to be called what it is today. The end result was the addition of lead soprano’s Jaide Fried and Shawn Megorden in the summer of 2005 and tour dates throughout the country with nationally acclaimed pianist Mac Frampton and his Hollywood Hills Orchestra, culminating in the October, 2003 debut CD release of "Got Swing!", a rich diversity of rhythm section and a cappella numbers, co-produced with Bill Allgood and featuring original arrangements of classic jazz standards by Rebecca and Don.

Today, the South City Voices are a rare blend of style, class, hip rhythms, and tight vocal harmonies that are keeping alive this wonderful American art form we call jazz. Sometimes compared with Manhattan Transfer, these southerners are delighting audiences everywhere with their smooth, silky sound, dynamic stage presentation, and outstanding band of world class jazz musicians.

Most recently, South City Voices is becoming a force of its own in Atlanta after a triumphant debut series of concerts at Libby’s Cabaret, Atlanta’s’ top jazz venue, performing arts guest appearances with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra and with their own talented 5 musicians around metro Atlanta, and now the return to Libby’s. SCV enjoys the on-going support of the Atlanta jazz radio station WCLK 91.9fm. The coming year boasts several performing arts center concerts in south Florida as well as Atlanta, beginning discussions on a couple very interesting projects, and a recent trip in January to establish contacts with Los Angeles jazz clubs and the Las Vegas scene.

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