Some Soul for a damp Friday afternoon:
YouTube - Nicole Willis and Soul Investigators - No One's Gonna LOve You.wmv
jeff
YouTube - Nicole Willis and Soul Investigators - No One's Gonna LOve You.wmv
jeff
a bit of back story (courtesy of Wikipedia)
While cycling in Philadelphia in November 2003 she was hit by a Jeep Cherokee whose driver had ignored a red traffic light. In the accident she suffered serious head and spinal injuries and her pelvis was broken in two places. Because of these severe injuries she was confined to her hospital bed for a year and had to remain lying on her back. As a further consequence of her injuries she had to re-learn simple tasks such as brushing her teeth and walking. The most noticeable effect of the neural injuries she suffered is that she was left hyper-sensitive to both light and sound, therefore requiring her to wear dark sunglasses at nearly all times to shield her eyes. The accident also resulted in both long and short term memory problems and difficulty with her sense of time. Gardot has described coping with this as like "climbing Mount Everest every day" as she often wakes with no memory of what she has to do that day.
Initially prompted by a tending physician who believed music would help her brain injury drastically improve, Gardot began writing music after her accident and since then often speaks and advocates in favour of using music for therapy. The accident had damaged the neural pathways between the brain's two cortexes which control perception and higher mental function, and made Gardot (in her own words) "a bit of a vegetable." As well as making it very hard for her to speak or communicate properly, she found it difficult to recall the right words to express her feelings.
Music involving listening and making a verbal attempt to sing or hum is thought to help the brain form new pathways. At first, Gardot learned to hum and was eventually able to sing into a tape recorder. She made good progress* and was eventually able to write original songs that sometimes referred to her rehabilitation.
* ya think?
Interesting woman, hadn't heard of her previously.
She definitely is a survivor for sure and a pure talent
Here's a performance she did on Letterman that I may have posted before, really nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCScsPAr7NE
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Natalie Merchants latest cd is really good, well recorded too.. Here's a performance she did of some of the new tunes, old reworked poems from long past YouTube - Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life
All the other Natalie merchant CDs are really good too. Most of the time I don't listen to the words, her work is an exception. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A89kgQK3pfU&feature=fvwrel
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Maria Grinberg, definitely.
YouTube - Maria Grinberg plays Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"
YouTube - Maria Grinberg plays Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Interesting woman, hadn't heard of her previously.
She doesn't get much mention. Sometimes you'll hear hear on the radio or a audio shows. Pleasant to listen to.
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Alexandrina Hristov. Moldavian singer(nu jazz)
YouTube - Alexandrina - Printre Flori (official)
enjoy
YouTube - Alexandrina - Printre Flori (official)
enjoy
cd in the player, nice old performance here YouTube - Tracy Chapman Mountains O'Things Live SNL
Emiri Miyamoto
This little girl's playing gives me chills. (Le Premier Amour)
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This little girl's playing gives me chills. (Le Premier Amour)
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Belive it or not, just this afternoon I played the "Blue Angel" CD.
Blue Angel is the band Cyndi Lauper was in before she went solo and became famous with Robert Hazard's "GJWHF"
One song from the album. They are actually lip-syncing
http://youtu.be/cNhqimarJNg
No girl hops around the stage quite like Cyndi.
I've always liked Cyndi.
Blue Angel is the band Cyndi Lauper was in before she went solo and became famous with Robert Hazard's "GJWHF"
One song from the album. They are actually lip-syncing
http://youtu.be/cNhqimarJNg
No girl hops around the stage quite like Cyndi.
I've always liked Cyndi.
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Sara Lazarus
Sara's not so well known as many other jazz singers, but she can hold her own with the best of them. And Birelli's guitar playing is the living embodyment of D'jango Reinhardt.
it's all right with me - YouTube
Sara's not so well known as many other jazz singers, but she can hold her own with the best of them. And Birelli's guitar playing is the living embodyment of D'jango Reinhardt.
it's all right with me - YouTube
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