Artist: Chiara Civello
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Last Quarter Moon
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Originally from Rome merely nowadays based in New York City, Italian singer/songwriter Chiara Civello is an eclectic, far-reaching artist world Health Organization brings a variety of pop, jazz, cabaret and Latin influences to the table. Although Civello has performed straight-ahead jazz in the past, she is not a full-time jazz singer or a bebop purist by whatsoever means; stylistically, a great deal of the material she has recorded for Verve is closer to Sade, Basia, Norah Jones, Nellie McKay (minus the eccentricity and sharp-tongued humor) or Rickie Lee Jones than it is to hard-core jazz vocalists like Abbey Lincoln, Sheila Jordan and Kitty Margolis. But the jazz influence is near always gift in Civello's pop recordings -- and since her arrival in the United States, she has crossed paths with major jazz musicians like alto saxist Phil Woods and guitarist Mike Stern. Listing all of Civello's influences could be time-consuming; Civello gives the stamp that along the means, she has listened to everyone from Joni Mitchell, Sade and Sting to Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London and Billie Holiday. Brazilian jazz and pop is also a unassailable influence on Civello, world Health Organization is manifestly well cognizant of Brazilian greats such as Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Ivan Lins and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Although Civello grew up in a country where Italian is the elementary terminology, much of her writing has been in English. Civello, in fact, has been tattle and writing in at least quatern languages -- English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish -- and when she performs in English, Civello sings with only a slim trace of an Italian stress. Her instruction of the English speech communication is fantabulous, and her accent is beneficial in that it gives her performances a great plow of character.Civello was still living in Italy when, at the long time of 17, she was chartered to perform as a featured singer for the Mario Raja Big Bang (as opposed to Mario Raja Big Band). After that, she was employed by Italian jazz drummer Roberto Gatto, world Health Organization is long-familiar in Italy and included her in his group the Noisemakers. In 1993, Civello moved to Boston after organism awarded a scholarship to the honored Berklee College of Music -- and by the time she gradational from Berklee in 1998, Civello had received a Boston Jazz Society Award as well as a Cleo Laine Award. In 2000, she left field Boston for New York City, where she met veteran producer Russ Titelman, world Health Organization has worked with a long number of major artists that includes, among others, Paul Simon, Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Newman, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor and Brazilian ace Milton Nascimento. Titelman went on to grow a demonstration for Civello and introduced her to Ron Goldstein, president of the United States and CEO of the Verve Music Group, and Goldstein complete up offering her a narrow. Titelman besides introduced Civello to veteran pop composer Burt Bacharach, with whom she co-wrote the song "Trouble." Late Quarter Moon, Civello's first album for Verve, was apt a February 2005 liberation date in the United States.
