Sylvia Vrethammar - Chateau Sylvia

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:47
Size: 101,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:53) 1. Shoo Shoo Baby
(2:55) 2. In A Mellow Tone
(5:16) 3. Thank You Man For Playing That Song Tonight
(2:31) 4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
(3:02) 5. The Way We Were
(2:10) 6. Blackbird
(2:58) 7. Exclusively For Me
(2:18) 8. Chattanooga Choo-Choo
(3:52) 9. (I Stayed) Too Long At The Fair
(3:34) 10. Higher And Higher
(3:36) 11. A Song For You
(3:54) 12. Basin Street Blues
(4:41) 13. The Sun And The Water

Eva Sylvia Vrethammar (born 22 August 1945, Uddevalla, Sweden), is a Swedish traditional pop and jazz singer. She is the daughter of Harald Vrethammar, an education official, and Britta Vrethammar, a musical education teacher, specializing in the piano. In 1969, she released a Swedish-language cover version of Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man", entitled "En lärling på våran gård". Vrethammar is also fluent in English. In the 1970s, she occasionally appeared as guest singer with the Bert Kaempfert orchestra, singing in English. After a series of tribute concerts in Germany in 2006 and 2008, where she returned to the bandleader's music with ex-Kaempfert trombonist Jiggs Whigham and other former orchestra members (playing as the HR Big Band), in 2012 she recorded numbers from the tours.

She is perhaps best known for the 1974 song, "Y Viva España," an English adaptation of the Dutch language "Eviva España," first recorded by the Belgian singer Samantha (Christiane Bervoets). It reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1974, spending over six months in the charts. The song also peaked at number #67 in Australia in 1975. She was known in the UK and Australia simply as Sylvia Globally her version alone sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. She took part in Melodifestivalen 2002, singing "Hon är en annan nu". She participated again in Melodifestivalen 2013 in the hope of representing Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 which was held in Malmö. She sang her song "Trivialitet" in the fourth semifinal, which was also held in Malmö. She came seventh and was therefore eliminated from the contest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Vrethammar

Chateau Sylvia

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Sylvia Vrethammar, Magnus Lindgren - Vortex

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:34
Size: 122,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:05) 1. Round Midnight
(3:26) 2. The Look of Love
(3:00) 3. Love for Sale
(4:28) 4. Corcovado
(3:43) 5. My Love
(4:05) 6. A Felicidade
(4:08) 7. Te Quiero Amor
(4:48) 8. Who Cares?
(4:26) 9. Why Do People Fall in Love?
(5:05) 10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
(4:05) 11. Spooky
(7:08) 12. Cry Me a River

Singer Sylvia Vrethammar continues to celebrate her 50 years as an artist. Since her debut in 1967 in Rune Öfverman's Trio until today, she has moved easily between jazz, pop, hits and bossa nova. At Vortex , she has brought together six of her favorite jazz musicians: Magnus Lindgren (saxophone, flute), Ulf Wakenius (guitar), Jan Lundgren (piano), Joel Lyssarides (piano) Hans Backenroth (bass) and the German pianist and organist Frank Chastenier. The songs were created during three separate studio sessions with three different trio formations. Instead of arrangements, the end result has been achieved through improvisation in the moment.

We get to listen to a string of pearls of compositions that have always been close to Vrethammar's with authors such as Burt Bacharach, George Gershwin, Richard Rogers, Paul McCartney and Antônio Carlos Jobim. With her directly recognizable, airy, easily veiled voice, the singer makes elegant reinterpretations of the famous melodies. She has been synonymous with the South American rhythms since the early 70's when she was a great success at the song festival in Rio. Especially her Jobim interpretations breathe presence and soul: Corcovado with Lyssarides and Lindgren and A Felicidade with Wakenius and Chastenier. Lundgren and Backenroth come in particularly good harmony with the singer in Bacharach's The Look of Love and Gershwin's Who Cares? .Vortex is only available through digital streaming services.(Translate By Google) By Patrik Sandberg https://orkesterjournalen.com/sylvia-vrethammar-vortex/

Vortex

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Sylvia Vrethammar - Trivialitet

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:47
Size: 73,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:03)  1. Trivialitet
(3:55)  2. Just Because of You
(2:36)  3. Floy Joy
(3:58)  4. Magdalena (Livet före döden)
(3:13)  5. Små lätta moln
(3:16)  6. Du sköna nya värld
(2:53)  7. Oh Boy
(2:38)  8. Kung för en dag
(2:58)  9. Hej Monika
(3:14) 10. Step Up

Sylvia Vrethammar is back in the competition after 11 years. “In 2002, I thought it would never be done again and now it has somehow been put in my lap. A surprise that feels like an adventure ”. Sylvia's career took off in 1970 when she hosted the popular Hyland TV show. In 1971 she participated in the Melodifestivalen for the first time and in 1973 she recorded the song Eviva España which became a thunderous success in both Sweden and the UK. The English version was on the English hit list for a total of 28 weeks and gave Sylvia a place in the Guinness Record Book. Most recently she has been seen in the television program So Much Better. I understand that you have thought of presenting different types of music and broadened the range, broadened ages of artists and it is something that feels very mature in some way and I hope I will not be disappointed, she says. Sylvia describes her song as a Brazilian-inspired tribute to finding value in what is considered obvious. The song is about what we may sometimes forget, in the small there is big in life. To value what is near and small and nice and may not be able to see a final result all the time and go ahead of events. Translate By Google https://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/sylvia-vrethammar-trivialitet-1/

Trivialitet

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Sylvia Vrethammar & Her Killer-Band - On Invitation Only

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:16
Size: 131,9 MB
Art: Front

( 2:15)  1. Just One of Those Things
( 3:52)  2. Só Danço Samba
( 3:50)  3. Moonlight
(13:09)  4. The World Is Calling
( 3:11)  5. Samba for Vinicius (Samba Pra Vinicius)
( 4:57)  6. Champagne, Champagne
( 4:37)  7. That's the Way of the World
( 4:33)  8. There Will Never Be Another You
( 3:35)  9. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
( 3:11) 10. Immer die Boys
( 5:36) 11. The Girl from Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema)
( 4:25) 12. The Samba in Me

Sylvia Vrethammar ( Uddevalla , 22 of August of 1945 ) is a Swedish singer . In 1974, its original English version of the mega-hit Y Viva España reached the top of the English charts, selling more than 1 million copies and remaining for 39 consecutive weeks on the charts, leading to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . In 1985, he recorded the album Rio de Janeiro Blue in Brazil, rewriting some songs by Brazilian artists, among them, Luiz Gonzaga's The Chero Da Carolina , Que Bonito É , by Luís Bandeira and Antes Que Seja Tarde , by Ivan Lins. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Vrethammar

On Invitation Only

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Sylvia Vrethammar - Sommar! Samba! Sylvia!

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:53
Size: 149,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:44)  1. Sylvias samba
(3:02)  2. Que Bonito È
(2:48)  3. Magdalena
(3:14)  4. I skymningen
(3:22)  5. Lambada
(3:21)  6. Närhet
(3:11)  7. Vår lust var starkare än vi
(2:37)  8. Dansa samba med mej
(3:53)  9. O chêro Da Carolina
(2:17) 10. America do sul
(3:14) 11. Vo bate pa tu
(3:42) 12. Amanda
(3:46) 13. Allting förändras utom våren
(4:00) 14. Las alas del corazon
(3:00) 15. Livets fest
(3:34) 16. Copacabana
(3:53) 17. Bossa Nova
(3:40) 18. Samba Brasil
(3:26) 19. Y viva Espana

Sylvia Vrethammar an international acclaimed artist, whose repertoire ranges from swinging Jazz over South American rhythms all the way to the modern pop song. She was born in Uddevalla on the Swedish west coast as daughter to Harald and Britta Vrethammar and later moved with her family to the country's capital Stockholm. At the age of 16 she began her musical career with several prizes at amateur music-festivals. Nevertheless Sylvia decided to finish school first and to study which resulted in her graduation as a child psychologist.

In the year 1969 Sylvia's career in the music business started for real. Her first album TYCKER OM DEJ gets released and during a perfomance at the Stockholm club Gyllene Cirkeln she is noticed by a TV producer and immediately gets her first own personality show on Swedish TV. TV entertainer Lennart Hyland is watching the broadcast of this show and on the spot decides to engage Sylvia as a co-host for his enormously popular TV-show Hylands Hörna. Now the engagements start streaming in and Sylvia is been sent to the International Song-Festival in Rio de Janeiro as the representative of Sweden. In Brazil she develops her great love for Samba music and therefore puts together a tour with Brazilian Samba-group Trio Pandeiros De Ouro through the whole of Scandinavia under the leadership from Sylvia´s husband and producer at this time, Rune Öfwerman. This tour becomes such a sensational success, that Sylvia gets from now on described as the “Samba Queen” whenever there is an article about her. One of her numerous tours around the globe leads Sylvia through the former Soviet Union and even here the people cue up in masses to get to see Sylvia's stage-show. In 1974 her English original-version of the mega-hit Y VIVA ESPAÑA reaches the tops of the English charts, sells over 1 Million copies and stays for 39 consecutive weeks on the charts, leading to an entry into the Guinness Book of Records. 

In Concert is the name of Sylvia's first personality-show on German television. This next stage of her career begins with numerous appearances on German stage and television. She becomes so popular that the legendary band leader and composer Bert Kaempfert (Strangers in the Night) invites her to be the guest-star on his TV show. After the show he tours with Sylvia and his orchestra for several weeks through Germany, Switzerland and most of all England, terminating the tour at the famous Royal Albert Hall in London. It was the same venue in which opera-diva Kristina Nilsson had her last public appearance in 1897 … and by the way Kristina was Sylvias grand-grand aunt. Returning to Rio Sylvia starts working on her album RIO DE JANEIRO BLUE as well as on the adjoining TV-movie RENDEZVOUS IN RIO, where she is accompanied by such top-class musicians as harmonica wizard Toots Thielemans and Brazilian accordion magician Sivuca. Soon after that follow more concerts in neighbouring countries such as Argentina and Colombia and later that year her career hits another high: She is invited to perform in China and to inaugurate Sweden's first hotel in Xian. 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...More http://sylvia-vrethammar.com/biography/

Sommar! Samba! Sylvia!

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Sylvia Vrethammar - The Girl From Uddevalla

Size: 106,0 MB
Time: 45:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals, Brazilian Rhythms
Art: Front

01. So Danço Samba (3:33)
02. That's The Way Of The World (4:28)
03. Moonlight (3:15)
04. The World Is Calling (4:07)
05. Samba For Vinicius (2:50)
06. The Copaflat (3:37)
07. My Açucena (3:59)
08. The Samba In Me (4:03)
09. Outra Vez (3:35)
10. Time To Say Hello (4:13)
11. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (3:26)
12. The Girl From Ipanema (4:17)

Eva Sylvia Vrethammar (born August 22, 1945, Uddevalla, Sweden), is a Swedish traditional pop and jazz singer. She is the daughter of Harald Vrethammar, an education official, and Britta Vrethammar, a musical education teacher, specializing in the piano.

In 1969, she released a Swedish-language cover version of Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man, entitled En lärling på våran gård. Vrethammar is also fluent in English.

In the 1970s, she occasionally appeared as guest singer with the Bert Kaempfert orchestra, singing in English. After a series of tribute concerts in Germany in 2006 and 2008, where she returned to the bandleader's music with ex-Kaempfert trombonist Jiggs Whigham and other former orchestra members (playing as the HR Big Band), in 2012 she recorded numbers from the tours.

She is perhaps best known for the 1974 song, "Y Viva España". It reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1974, spending over six months in that listing. She was known in the UK simply as Sylvia Globally her version alone sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

She took part in Melodifestivalen 2002, singing "Hon är en annan nu". She participated again in Melodifestivalen 2013 in the hope of representing Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 which was held in Malmö. She sang her song "Trivialitet" in the fourth semifinal, which was also held in Malmö. She came seventh and was therefore eliminated from the contest.

The Girl From Uddevalla

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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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Sylvia Vrethammar & Rune Gustafsson - Something My Heart Might Say

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:27
Size: 117.8 MB
Styles: Vocal & guitar jazz
Year: 1999/2014
Art: Front

[4:21] 1. Something My Heart Might Say
[1:38] 2. Just In Time
[2:37] 3. I'll Never Get Myself Another Face
[2:28] 4. You Must Be Crazy
[3:10] 5. How High The Moon
[3:55] 6. Teach Me Tonight
[1:09] 7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
[3:06] 8. Smile
[1:38] 9. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
[2:51] 10. Sweet Georgie Fame
[2:34] 11. Daydream
[4:05] 12. The Nearness Of You/You Are Thw Sunshine Of My Life
[3:29] 13. A Fine Romance
[2:21] 14. If You Should Ever Leave Me
[2:16] 15. Oho-Aha
[2:37] 16. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
[1:32] 17. Strangers In The Night/-L-O-V-E
[3:50] 18. Isn't It Romantic
[1:42] 19. Aquarela Do Brasil

There was something very special with the voice of this female singer when I first heard a couple songs from this album without knowing who she was. The swell honest phrasing, superb vocal control, not to mention the charm of execution in unison with a playful chic jazz guitarist. Surprising as it turned out that my unknown musicians are two famous Swedish artists; Sylvia Vrethammar and Rune Gustafsson. For international jazz enthusiasts who do not know these two excellent musicians, a little introduction; Sylvia Vrethammar is a singer of popular music, standards and jazz. She is best known for the 1974 song, "Y Viva España". It reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1974. Rune Gustafsson is a well-known jazz guitarist and composer, known for numerous recordings and concerts with the likes of Ed Thigpen, Putte Wickman, Arne Domnérus, Jon Christensen, Kjell Øhman, Zoot Sims and Toots Thielemans.

"Something My Heart Might Say" gives you the best of harmony vocals and guitar only, never gets boring even when the two are without any support from other instruments throughout the album and finally by a fine collection of musical gems from 'The Great American Songbook'. All the tunes you've heard before, but maybe not so naked and vulnerable as here when the nuances come out more clearly in a challenging format for the two musicians. All the 17 tunes running on the album are highlights; my personal picks for listening over-and-over again are the album title tune "Something My Heart Might Say", the seldom played "I'll Never Get Myself Another Face", Blossom Dearie's lovely "Sweet Georgie Fame" and finally Billy Joel's immortal "Just the Way You Are". Rune Gustafsson is the perfect partner for Sylvia Vrethammar on this album, an excellent accompanist and playful soloist in this challenging format. As always from Four Leaf Clover Records, sound quality is excellent and particularly the vocal recorded are of the highest audible quality. Highly recommended album! ~Terje Biringvad

Something My Heart Might Say

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