Saturday, October 8, 2016

Sylvia Vrethammar - Rio De Janeiro Blue

Styles: Vocal, Brazilian Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:56
Size: 92,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:12)  1. Começar De Novo
(3:55)  2. Rio De Janeiro Blue
(2:59)  3. Que Bonito É
(3:47)  4. Someone Home
(2:49)  5. Estalo De Maracatu
(4:24)  6. Nobody Does It Better
(3:51)  7. O Cheiro Da Carolina
(4:32)  8. Make The River Flow
(3:07)  9. Antes Que Seja Tarde
(3:52) 10. I Belong
(3:24) 11. Carioca

In the year of 1983 during the production of a TV-concert at the legendary "Berns" in Stockholm Sylvia works for the first time with Georgie Fame ("Bonnie & Clyde") and during the summer of this year also records the album "In Goodmansland" together with him. In the meantime here later-to-become-evergreen "Ricardo" gets its first release in Germany. Sylvia is also much sought after as an MC and hosts the German TV show "Kiel International" in 1986. 1989 her German album "Frau im besten Mannesalter" gets released and unfortunately becomes the last production with her by the highly successful producer Heinz Gietz ("Pigalle", "Musik liegt in der Luft") who dies later the same year. Meanwhile back in Sweden, Sylvia is voted as one of the countries ten most beautiful women. In 1990 Sylvia makes Germany her second residential adress. The German CD "Ladylike" is released and a few years later the critically highly acclaimed CD "Something my heart might say". On this album she is only accompanied by her longtime guitar player Rune Gustafsson and she presents a couple of songs from her broad repertoire in this intimate, classic atmosphere of only voice and guitar.

In the mid-nineties Sylvia begins a working relationship with young Swedish jazz piano player Jan Lundgren and his trio. An unforgettable instance working with this trio turns out to be a show at the world-famous "Tropigala-Club" of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, USA. A Danish journalist,Krister Branding, once  wrote: " Sylvia Vrethammar walked on stage with a charisma and routine that only a big star can offer you! Sylvia Vrethammar is plainly a world class artist- And that´s the way it is!" In 2002 she returns to perform again at the "Eurovision Song Contest" for the first time in 28 years. Both new albums "Samstag Nacht" in Germany and "Faller för dej" in Sweden, although with totally different tracks, are being produced at almost the same time and Sylvia's German as well as Swedish lyrics are being teamed up with a phenomenal bandwidth of different musical styles. The co-operation with Jan Lundgren and his musicians is developing in the meantime so intensively and successfully that Sylvia decides to make a CD with the boys where she also for the first time will show her talents as a record producer. The recording sessions take place in the summer of 2005 in the living room of Sylvia's country house in Germany and the result is being released on CD in the spring of 2006 under the title of "Champagne".

"40 Years on Stage" is the name of Sylvia‘s big anniversary concert at the Cirkus in Stockholm in 2009. Together with a cast of long time friends and contributors such as Georgie Fame, Hector Bingert and Jan Lundgren among others, Sylvia performs a 2 and a half hour concert, backed by the phenomenal Roger Berg Big Band. The show is recorded in High Definition picture and 5.1 sound for later use on television and DVD. 2010 brings a totally new experience for Sylvia by recording a duet together with young Swedish pop-star Kristian Anttila. Their song "Magdalena (Livet före döden)" gets immediately a huge radio response which makes them decide to shoot a video, directed by Daniel Jigenstedt. In the summer of 2012 Sylvia participates in Sweden‘s most popular TV-series „Så mycket bättre“. After the broadcast of the 9 episodes in Winter 2012 the program gets 2 ,Kristall‘-prices for being Sweden‘s best entertainment program. The adjoining CD to the show sells double-platinum. 2013 sees Sylvia participate for the 5th time in the Eurovision Song Contest. This time with a song written by Thomas G:son and called ,Trivialitet‘. The rest of the year she is busy recording her new album „Musik“ complete with Big-Band and Strings and 12 songs written by her late father-in-law Heinz Gietz with lyrics by Sylvia herself. The album is released on January 2nd, 2014 and has an adjoining TV-documentary about the Making-Of the album, which was aired by Swedish channel TV4 on December 29th, 2013. http://www.sylvia-vrethammar.de/Official_Sylvia_Vrethammar_Homepage/Biography.html

Rio De Janeiro Blue

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