A Singers Jungle

New website + Slacking

I am so excited to share our new website with you all. I feel it's got a fresh fun look to it. I hope you enjoy this journey with us and can't wait to share much more. I know I've been slacking in the blog department but there's just so much time already spent in front of a computer sometimes I just want to close things off, if you know what I mean. X

Box of Love

I was looking for some reasonable priced hotels that would still be close to the MIDEM conference coming up in Jan 0f 2013. There were so many to choose from, but I noticed a lot of the hotels were almost sold out for the dates I wanted! Already? I thought.

I started to panic inside, thinking I only had 10 minutes to make this happen. Then I got a sign.. a place called Boite d'Amour (box of love) - now that's awesome considering d'Amour is part of our band name:) So, I booked and sent my deposit. I am so EXCITED!!

It's only a 15 minute walk to the conference, which is just the right amount of distance to stumble home.

Although, we don't have all the funds yet to make this happen - we've taken the first step and I know it will all fall into place.

Hero of my voice

Well, I've had the absolute pleasure of having John 'beetle' Bailey re-mix our album "proof of love".

The reason I title this blog as it is, is because I've never worked with an engineer that knows how to work with my voice. He embraced every nuance with my tone and enhanced it. The album sounds incredible. Very rarely would I boast but wow, what a difference he has made.

You are all going to looooove it, I promise.

X

John Beetle Bailey

Well it's been awhile since I've written on this blog but we've been crazy busy.

We are re-mixing and re- packaging proof of love to suit our show, personality and look.

John Beetle Bailey will be my mixing engineer forever now. He knows how to work with my vocals. As you know, I'm not a flashy singer. My nuances are my gems, and The Beetle brought it out beautifully! I'm so pleased and I know you guys will be too.

Scott Morin is our agent now and I couldn't be happier. What an awesome team we have... I feel this is all finally coming together.

Singing in The Rain

Thank you to the Beaches Jazz Fest for their incredible support.

And a bigger thank you to everyone who came out and supported our quirky cabaret. You even hung out in the rain!!!

We appreciate the love... Hope to see you all soon.

Much joy
Suzana

Beaches Jazz Festival

We performed at the Beaches Jazz street Festival from July 21 - 23 and we've never had so much fun!!

We did not expect the kind of reaction we got at all. What an incredible surprise. Thank you all so much for becoming fans and appreciating what we do.

Much Joy!
Suzana

Big Coverage

Well it was a busy week last week! We did interviews for CBC English & French, City TV and Global to promote the international beaches jazz festival.
It was a lot fun and we got to perform a little acoustic version of donnez l'amour under the sun.

Inspired by Erté

The boys and I went to Aberfoyle yesterday and looked around for unusual pieces  to inspire and maybe wear.

I found some Erte prints that I had to buy. I'll show you one of them, he was such a brilliant man, still is.

He was born in Russia and was in awe by the Persian miniatures he found in his father's library as a young boy. The exotic, bright images influenced his decision to move to Paris at eighteen.

In 1915 he began an association with Harper's Bazaar by designing covers of each of their magazines for the next 22 years. The influence of his work as a result of the high visibility of this periodical influenced an entire art movement that was to become known as “Art Deco”.

I discovered Erte by borrowing a book from Mathieu, owner of Frou Frou  Vintage. I became obsessed with all the incredible artists in there. Erte was one of them.

It's funny, all the things I am very drawn to, seem to take me to Paris and the Art Deco period. Perhaps in my past life;)

 

But even more interesting. I created and designed a chain dress that I finished on Friday, and we went to the Aberfoyle market yesterday - I believe there's a connection. 

 

Cabaret

We will be doing a revamp of the website soon so I wanted to give everyone a little taste of what the pictures will be like.

We hope you find this image intriguing and I can't wait to share the rest. Soon enough.

Wishing you all lots of joy!!!

Suzana

So it's been two weekends in a row that we have not performed after 9 months of straight performing. I thought I wanted time off but I must say - I miss it! I miss my fans, the dynamic of the group. I've been performing the same repertoire for the last 9 months and it never bores me. Marriage should be like that. I guess I need to give it couple more years lol!

I hope to see you all at the jazz festival.

Much Joy