provocative jazz vocals and Brazilian tempos

14 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Bossa Nova



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From Manhattan VENUES -Birdland,The China Club, Tavern on The Green,The Friars Club and from concert hall solos at Manhattans Town Hall and Long Islands Tilles Hall and then from New Jerseys Mr.Cs,Spring Meadow Golf Club and to that little jazz club in Paris,Frances Le Duc du Lombard arrives Miss Jovan. Her STYLE is a la Chris Conners,Shirley Horne,Abbey Lincoln,Nora Jones and Lisa Minelli.She is a multilingual chanteuse who aims to provoke,to drive you to tears or secret chuckles.Her rare quality is one most other singers envy: the ability to become part of and deeply into the song she portrays in her nightclub act..Her MUSIC carries a touch of Brazilian heat. Shes usually accompanied by her mentor Guilherme Franco who was among the very first to introduce America to percussive Brazilian-American jazz as his friends Astrud,Jaoia Gilberto and Jobim came on the scene.A Soldiers Song was written with her lyrics to remind us of the plight of the soldier. She dedicates a song also to the physically challenged-Love Dance.Her songs are well chosen from the 30s,40s,50s. The songwriters are most important and she therefor favors the Onlius-Thelonious,Porter,Ellington. Her motto is:"KEEP IT ALIVE"Her LIFE has been always as a singer, as a lawyer,Administrative Law Judge and Assistant Attorney General. As a judge her position required lots of onstage performance which she wholly enjoyed but always her secret obsession has been The Jazz. Her motherhood was the most wonderful part of her life but her three marriages ,a disappointment.She was born in Brooklyn and attributes her streetwise cool to that background .