“A Jazzy Waltz”

“Voice, guitar, paper and pen”… 23 candles on a cake, dreammy sweet jazzy vocals, cherries and cupcakes, paper dresses, the 50´s, beautiful songs, and a new album coming out…This is Luisa Sobral, actually, this is just part of this wonderful young lady.
I fell in love with Luisa´s “wonderland jazz world” when I discovered a song called “I would love to”…

“I don´t like to go to fancy places…but if you ask me too…I would love to”,

I still love to sing it out loud when I´m driving alone.
«The Cherry on my Cake» is just the begining of a real life musical fairytale, each song has it own taste…just imagine a cupcake store full of colorful delicious flavors, where you can´t pick only one because…well you just love them all! That´s how I see Luisa´s melodies, lyrics, harmony, rhythm…her songs,her world.

“She embraced such artists as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzerald, Chet Baker, and many others and with them in her heart she set off to the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, USA, to study music. In her 4 year stay in Boston she was nominated for the «Best Jazz Song» at the Malibu Music Awards (2008); «Best Jazz Artist» at the Hollywood Music Awards ; «International Songwriting Competition» (2007) and «The John Lennon Songwriting Competition» (2008).(…)But Her musical identity would further develop in New York, where she moved after finish her degree”

I usually write long long articles about my favourite musicians, but with Luisa…the empathy I feel for her takes all the words from my mind, all I see is pictures, colors and dreams…ohh…an hour later words still missing… all I can tell you is that I´m feeling like a kid on christmas eve, anxious to open (…well taste!) my so desired gift…«The Cherry on my Cake» the lovely name of Luisa´s album, a name that her mother “dreamed on once in a lullaby”.

find more about Luisa Sobral online:
http://www.myspace.com/luisasobral
http://www.universalmusic.pt/artist.php?id=384bc141b95fb452910a08fedfc2d892

much love and lots of music!

Joana Lourenço ♥

http://twitter.com/#!/lourencoJoana