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Lua Hadar

Born: June 21

Lua Hadar is a multi-lingual vocalist, emcee, comedienne, songwriter, independent producer and arts educator. Her signature “jazz without borders” brings songs from different styles and languages into the jazz idiom. She peppers her cosmopolitan jazz with funny stories, connecting the global dots between her cultural and theatrical influences and her songs. Lua has charmed audiences at venues and international festivals from San Francisco to Hollywood to New York to Paris to Italy to Bangkok.

Independently produced by her own New Performance Group, Lua has released three albums with her band Twist, as well as a live concert film, Like A Bridge. Her first original music video, Our Common Humanity, premiered at the 2018 International Arts Festival in San Francisco. She released her second original music video, Saudade, in May 2020. Lua’s recordings appear on iTunes, Youtube, Google Play, Pandora, Spotify, Amazon, and most digital services.

Like A Bridge

By Lua Hadar

Label: Bellalua Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Bridge Over Troubled Water; Beyond the Sea/La Mer (French); Raha Mbola Misy (Malagasy);San Francisco (French); Child of Man;Imagina (Portuguese); Sukiyaki/Ue o Muite Aruko (Japanese); jalá Que Llueva Café (Spanish); Isfahan (Instrumental); Stregata dall’Amor/Ravel’s Bolero (Italian).

Lua Hadar with Twist: Like A Bridge

by Geannine Reid
October 25, 2012

Singer Lua Hadar her band Twist have aptly come up with Like a Bridge, a bold, worldly musical venture with multiple lingual selections and styles. Hadar's grasp of various languages and vernaculars is vast, singing in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian and Malagasy. What is more impressive is her command of each of the seven ...

Jazz Without Borders Lua Hadar and her global jazz band TWIST debut at Yoshi’s Oakland, previewing new CD Sunday, March 11 @ 7pm

March 11, 2012

San Francisco, CA: Vocalist Lua Hadar with her band TWIST make their Yoshi's Oakland debut on Sunday, March 11 at 7pm with their signature “Jazz Without Borders," an evening of international jazz. The set list includes several tunes from the band's new CD, Like A Bridge, recently recorded at the legendary Fantasy Studios, Berkeley. Also, a ...

Lua Hadar with TWIST at the Cornelia Street Café, NYC

by Marc Nieson
May 20, 2010

Lua Hadar with TWISTJazz with a Twist of Français Cornelia Street Café New York, New York April 24, 2010 Say chanteuse and what comes to mind? A smoky Parisian cellar? A rain-slicked side street in Montmartre? Edith Piaf poised before a thick microphone, spilling her ever-rallying soul for romance and La ...