Topsy grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana. She became
partial to music at an early age due to the fact that her father was a vocal
music instructor. After high school she moved to New Orleans where she developed
a gospel group, The Chapmans, which performed at the
New Orleans Jazz Festival,
for many clubs and organizations in and around the New Orleans area, and also
for German radio in Cologne and Bohn Germany. She composed and arranged original
material for the group.Ms. Chapman has toured all of Europe, Asia and Australia, including France,
Germany, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland,
Italy, Greece, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, England, Spain, Bermuda, the
Bahamas, Finland, Denmark, and Norway. In addition, she has traveled the
Americas and Canada performing gospel, traditional and Dixieland Jazz. She has
performed on Mississippi paddle-wheel steamboats for the Delta
Queen Steamboat Company and has toured with the
Magnolia Jazz Band
and the Blues
Serenaders, with whom she recorded. She has also recorded with artist such
as Willie Humphrey,
Chester Zardis, Alvin Stardust, Geoff Bull, Louie Nelson, Fred Coleman,
Orange Kellin, The New Orleans Jazz Ladies, Jeanette Kimball, Lars
Edegran, The
Jim Cullum Jazz Band,
New Orleans Rascals from Japan, and
Nicholas Payton. She has performed with Butch Thompson,
Dick Hyman, Herb
Ellis and Bob Haggart. |