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For several years, now, Bluebird Reviews has been following carefully the fulgid career of the American singer/songwriter Eliza Neals with increasing interest, attention and admiration for the many remarkable bodies of work released by the Detroit-based Soul, Blues and Funk Powerhouse throughout her career to date.
Armed with many artistic talents, Eliza Neals has convincingly impressed the worldwide music press, record after record, thanks to a cocktail of inspired lyricism, catchy melodies, impressive piano and keyboard playing skills and, above all, a very distinctive singing voice able to distill powerful emotions both in studio and while performing live too.
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How many of us really get to tell the story of our lives publicly, the real stories, once we are gone? We are talking about the ones about the real ourselves, those stories that cannot see the light of the day, because they encapsule our real essences and deep secrets, might them be filled with light or darkness, solely because society imposes us to project an image of ourselves that is not completely who we really are? The answer is "not very often", but, when that exception takes place, the outcome may be overwhelmingly beautiful and fascinating.
The latter is exactly what happened to the enormously talented Icelandic singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini who, one day some time ago, went to visit one of her friends in UK, Zoe, to try and support her emotionally after the recent passing of Zoe's mother Geraldine. It was during this period that Torrini, who had met Geraldine Flower only at a later stage of her life, stumbled, together with Zoe, upon a box containing dozens of previously unseen and unread letters, where new and unknown aspects of Geraldine's life emerged, like the fact that Geraldine had received nine marriage of proposals throughout her life (never accepted) and among the letters of many male admirers, there were quite a few about a mysterious man called Reggie, with whom Geraldine started an intense correspondence where love was often the subject of those letters while, some other time, there were some more cryptic letters that would possibly indicate that Reggie, the mysterious man, could also have worked as a spy, back in the 70's.
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Success is not always built in a day, just like the city of Rome, as an old saying would state, for many music artists.
The stairway to success and notoriety can be, at times, very strenuous to achieve, especially in some music genres, like the Blues or the Blues/Rock, for example, genres that sadly don't get a lot of airplay on radio stations or any other media, in the times we are living in.
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Italy is a country that, historically, has always had a profound relation with popular music. Through the decades, Italian music has been often exported worldwide very successfully and even translated and performed by international superstars like Sinatra, Dean Martin and many more.
Naturally, the traditional approach to writing and composing songs has moved on as the years went by, as one would expect, igniting a natural compositional and sonic evolution that has made possible that Italian musical artistry is still and largely worldwidely appreciated, to these days, not only into popular music but also in genres like Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical and the list goes on and on.
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Throughout the last two decades of music, it has been very hard to find virtually anybody capable of inheriting the lessons of the great American Black Music songbook in its entirety quite as much as the singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award winner Judith Hill has.
With a highly impressive career span that has seen Hill collaborating with some of the greatest American artists of the last century and releasing records that have been unanimously considered as vocal and musical masterpieces, such as her 2015's debut called Back In Time and the 2021's Baby, I'm Hollywood!, Judith Hill has always excelled among the artist's contemporary peers because of Hill's unique hybrid soundscape and her undisputable vocal excellence.
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For those who love music in its entirety, there must be no better feeling than hearing an artist or a band progressing artistically with each passing record. So often, in order to guarantee "record revenues", some of said artists prefer not to choose to push too far their music boundaries, feeling just content to deliver another record to their fans that would match their fanbases' expectations, sacrificing, in this way, inspiration, immediacy and artistic growth.
Rather fortunately though, there are also other type of musicians who love to move forward instead and see their music as a starting point for a journey where music become the locomotive of an invisible train, able to bring them back in time and then back home again, where their signature sound then becomes organically amalgamated with the rhythms and vibes they absorbed during their journey and the experiences they forged, with the end result being a very honest, truly representative and stylistically exciting new expressive vehicle.
