Sylvie Lewis

b. London, Britain. The mixture of jazz, folk and chanson favoured by this designer can be tracked back again to the musical impact of her grandparents, among which performed jazz-influenced guitar as well as the additional worked like a choral scholar. By her early teenagers Lewis was carrying out inside a jazz trio around her indigenous London, and documented a demonstration tape with famous maker George Martin. In her past due teenagers she relocated to America to review at Boston’s renowned Berklee University Of Music, switching from her 1st like of jazz to gain a qualification in Songwriting and Structure. After graduation Lewis shifted to LA and began creating a presence for the town’s flourishing songwriting picture. A roughly documented EP, Beautiful Clutter, of her tracks premiered in 2001, and was sufficiently amazing to property Lewis a agreement using the LA-based Cheap Lullaby label. Released in 2005, Tangos & Tantrums revealed Lewis being a fluent cabaret vocalist with the record drifting by on the bed of jazz, folk, salsa and ragtime. Lewis’ sugary, sensual vocals supplied an immediate entrance point for most smitten critics, nonetheless it was her extremely literate and sometimes risqué lyrics that provided the collection added impetus. The record was extremely fêted in both Lewis’ indigenous Britain and her followed homeland of America, and prompted the documenting of another collection for Inexpensive Lullaby. Released by the end of 2007, Translations was another amazingly realised record that verified Lewis being a modern-day chansonnier of significant talent.