Jazz Articles about Alexa Weber Morales

Alexa Weber Morales: Vagabundeo/Wanderings

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
July 4, 2007

Alexa Weber Morales is a San Francisco Bay-area singer whose star is rapidly rising. She sings in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English, and her lush, rangey, sensuous voice reminds me of Basia, another boundary-busting, powerhouse singer who made a huge splash in the early 1990s and has only recently returned.

For this second CD, Weber Morales includes jazz, bossa nova, salsa, funk, a whiff of R&B and even a touch of opera (as in the opening track, a ...