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Kellylee Evans: Nina
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come molte cantanti della sua generazione la canadese Kellylee Evans si muove in quel territorio trasversale dove folk, pop music, rock e jazz s'incontrano dando vita ad un'enorme varietà di forme possibili: ovviamente la sintesi che ne deriva può andare da livelli molto alti fino a cose mediocri. Dipende dalle qualità espressive e dall'intelligenza musicale dei protagonisti, dai partner, dal produttore e dal buon gusto che pervade il lavoro. In questo suo terzo album, dopo il bell'esordio con il fantasioso ...
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by R.J. DeLuke
In a sense, singer Kellylee Evans was fast-tracked into her career in music, deciding relatively late in her still-young life that she would plunge into show business waters; waters that can sometimes be murky and beset with storms.When the Toronto, Canada-area woman made a decision to drop pursuit of a master's degree to pursue singing--a decision made after a near-death experience--it wasn't long before she was working on her first recording, an album created with the aid of ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Every once in a while an homage project comes along actually doing what it sets out to do: pay homage. That the object of the present homage is the enigmatic Nina Simone makes Canadian Kellylee Evans' Nina that much more a definitive statement of a courageous cultural career. Add to this that Evans thoughtfully does not cover Simone's “Mississippi Goddamn," and this collection is properly frames not only Simone, but also Evans, whose musical vision, already established, is a formidable ...
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