Sofia Pettersson - That's Amore

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:38
Size: 86,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:13)  1. Nobody
(3:56)  2. When About To Leave
(3:59)  3. That's Amore
(3:07)  4. Miss You
(3:55)  5. He's All Right
(2:45)  6. Music! Music! Music!
(4:11)  7. It's Happening
(4:15)  8. Fool On The Hill
(4:07)  9. When You're Smiling
(3:07) 10. Never Can Say Goodbye

Sofia Pettersson is a singer with an extra ordinary presence. Gifted with a natural frasing technique and lyric interpretation, she has created a very personal and intimate style.The critics rave about her and states , among many things, that ”her talent includes timing as well as rythm”, ”her voice has a beautiful sound and capacity” and that ”the singing connects with a natural, unaffected musical talent. Very appealing!”Further more Sofia  has a ”artistic attidude which shows that she’s both a composer and artist” and ”a salute is in order for both lyrics and music” - ”Prophone have robbed the big record companys on something special”. Sofia´s 6th and latest album "Det Liknar Ingenting" was released in April 2011. All lyrics are in Swedish and the music is written by Sofia and some music in composed by Petter Bergander, pianoplayer.The album has got beautiful reviews aswell as the last years live conserts. Sofia began singing jazz in 1987 and in 1998 her first album ”Oasis” was released. Jacob Karlzon, Johan Leijonhufvud, Jonas Holgersson and Mathias Hjorth were in her band. By then she lived in Malmö. She has done conserts in Sweden, France, Luxemburg, Great Britain and Belgium. In 1999, Sofia moved to Stockholm.

She has, since then, done conserts at jazz clubs and churches etc all over Sweden, in addition to that she has received many different scholarships for her work. In 2002 she released her 2nd album ”Slow Down” which got a very positive reception. In 2004, her 3rd album ”Thats’ Amore” came out, and was critically acclaimed as well. Apart from Sofia’s own songs , it included some well known classics from the 60’s and 70’s. Sofia’s 4th album ”Still Here” was released in 2004 and got the most attention of all of her previous albums. She wrote all the lyrics as well as music, and it was produced and arranged by Magnus Lindgren. ”Slow Down”, ”That’s Amore” and ”Still Here” have also been realesed in Europe and in Asia. Sofia’s 5th album "In Another World" was released on April 2008. Sofia has written all the lyrics as well as music, and produced it together with Per Erik Domargård. Her inspirations has been jazz and the singersongwriter tradition, and the whole album has a new sound compared to Sofia’s earlier albums.One new addition is acoustic and electrical guitars by Erik Söderlind. Petter Bergander plays organ and Fender Rhodes in addition to acoustic piano. Ola Bothzén plays as always percussion apart from the drums and Tobias Grenholm on  bass. 

~ Bio  http://www.sofiapettersson.com/site/index.html

That's Amore

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