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Mimi Manners: Speechless

by Dave Nathan
March 1, 2001

Vocalist Mimi Manners has had a varied and wending musical journey during her 17 years a as performer. She's done opera, musical comedy, rock, R&B and jazz (straight and Brazilian). She's worked the stage, TV and been on film scores. All this exposure to different forms comes together on an album appropriately titled Speechless. This album is completely wordless vocalizing, nary a word will you hear throughout the session's 48 minutes. It's not possible to imagine a sound that can ...