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Lola Danza

Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ways to describe Lola Danza as a vocalist and composer. Ms. Danza’s music is innovative and the result is the creation of a new idiom in music. She infuses beautiful flowing melodies and creative improvised lines with effortless mastery. With her four-octave range and vast array of vocal technique, Ms. Danza’s voice is rich, full and resonate. Lola’s music reveals a special connection to her soul that cultivates mutual inspiration between the musicians and enchants the audience. Lola’s music and compositions encompass myriad musical styles that span the world: from Asia to Latin America and including the influences of classical, jazz, contemporary American, gypsy, folk, and Flamenco music. Written with intensity and honesty, the songs are spiritual, her lyrics sheer poetry filled with insight that everyone can relate to and understand

Lola Danza on her Evolver Label and Evolver Fest

by Lola Danza
October 7, 2015

Event Alert! Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 8 pm at the Roulette. Special guests include Matthew Shipp, Fung Chern Hwei, George Spanos' Quartet, Lola Danza “Korean Shaman Rites" and Ben Stapp: Myrrha's Red Book Act II will perform their latest works. About Lola Danza: Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ...

The Island

By Lola Danza

Label: Evolver
Released: 2012
Track listing: The Island; Alfie; How Deep is the Ocean. Cecilia; Bye Bye Blackbird; Cry Me a River; The Unheard Song; Lover Man; GSP; It's All In Your Mind; Lola's Lament; JKL.

Lola Danza: Life of Luxury

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2012

Singer/composer Lola Danza has a pan-cultural and artistic vision expanding well beyond the traditional singer's role as performer and interpreter, though these facets do exist large in her art. The singer began a personal trend on Vision Quest (Evolver, 2005) employing a rhythm section of only two bassists. This format, with an occasional splash added by ...

Cry Me A River

May 10, 2012

Album: The Island
By Lola Danza
Label: Evolver
Released: 2012
Duration: 03:04

Lola Danza: The Island

by Dan Bilawsky
April 18, 2012

Vocalist Lola Danza has always been an original thinker, but that doesn't get you very far in a field crowded with people fitting that description. What makes Danza stand out is her strength of vision and steadfast commitment to following her muse, no matter how non-commercial it may be. With Janya (Evolver, 2011), Danza and her ...

Lola Danza: The Island

by C. Michael Bailey
April 2, 2012

Singer/composer Lola Danza is not a multicultural artistic presence, she is a pan-cultural artistic presence. This is fully exploited on her ensemble recording, Janya (Evolver, 2011). Her singing and songwriting hover in the neighborhood of jazz because terms like “new age" and “world music" don't seem to quite cover it. Live Free (Evolver, 2009) was exactly ...

Take Five With Lola Danza and JANYA

by Lola Danza
December 31, 2011

Meet Lola Danza & JANYA: In Sanskrit, JANYA means to be born, while in Korean, JANYA means around dawn. JANYA was created by four unique musicians-- all derived from Korean descent and all women. The music is a fusion of East and West. The East: Seungmin Cha- Daegeum, Eun Sun Jung- Gayageum and Woonjung ...

Janya

By Lola Danza

Label: Evolver
Released: 2011
Track listing: Epilogue; No Escape; Withered; Generations; Mother; Epic- Sinawi; Janya.

Janya: Janya

by Dan Bilawsky
August 3, 2011

Janya's sound is all about Korean-influenced music for the free jazz-loving soul. The members of this female foursome are all of Korean descent, and bring a free yet flowing sensibility to this seven-song program of original music. While the presence of instruments like gayageum, daegeum and janggo--a zither-like string instrument, bamboo transverse flute, ...