Jazz Articles about Lyambiko

About Lyambiko

Album Review

With her new release Shades Of Delight, African-German vocalist Lyambiko reaches for her share of the spotlight in the contemporary jazz diva category. While her debut disc Out Of This Mood successfully capitalized on her good looks and exotic moniker, Shades Of Delight makes the case that she could be a flash-in-the-pan for the Nagel Heyer label. Through a mix of popular jazz standards and not-so-standard African traditional songs, Lyambiko's quirky mezzo-soprano strains for feeling but ends up sounding like ...

Album Review

Lyambiko: Out of This Mood

by Dave Nathan
August 16, 2002

Not especially active in recording vocalists, German label Nagel Heyer has made a fortuitous exception by hosting vocalist Lyambiko's first album. Definitely out of the cool school, this young German performer sings this play list of mostly standards in slightly accented English which helps to make her delivery even more engaging. Possessing an especially soothing tone, good phrasing instincts, a slight vibrato used judiciously, she shows her obvious like of and respect for classics written by Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos ...