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"Joyce's angelic voice holds a tranquil, ethereal quality that wafts upward with a lighter-than-air mystique..." - Audio Producer David Chesky says, "Valerie has a great feel for the music and has one of the most unique singing voices I have ever heard." Valerie Joyce has been performing as a musician on the Seattle music scene since 1994. Born in Japan to an American father and Japanese mother, she was exposed to classical music through her mother's piano playing and extensive record collection. After college, she moved to Seattle where she regularly appears with a variety of jazz ensembles. "The Look of Love" is Valerie Joyce's much anticipated follow-up to her Chesky debut, featuring elegantly chic original arrangements of the classic pieces in Burt Bacharach & Hal David's catalogue.
Valerie Joyce is featured on the cover of the September issue of Seattle's Earshot Jazz Magazine. Valerie Joyce possesses so wonderfully idiosyncratic a voice that one cannot help but stop and marvel. What is impressiveis not just the striking acoustic quality of it, but the character she builds into it, to create expression that can be both disarmingly vulnerable and arrestingly deeply hued ... Joyce delivers all the numbers with
emotional nuance – with maturity... She
manages to convey both a sense of discovering lyrics and the resonance of songs,
as if for the first time, and a knowing, Click here to read the full article.
Valerie was nominated in three categories for this year's Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards. She was nominated for 2006 NW Recording of the Year for New York Blue, Emerging Artist of 2006 and for NW Vocalist of 2006. Please visit earshotjazz.org and click on the Golden Ear Awards link to view the nominations for this year! VALERIE GETS A FIVE STAR REVIEW IN AUSTRALIA! With her distinctive, smoky vibrato she gently unfolds the lyrics of venerable gems from The Great American Songbook...She is one of the few singers who can reprise Fever without me thinking of Peggy Lee... Listening to her recalls memories of another era when songs were not only always melodic but well sung.- Australia's Fine Music 2MBS-FM 102.5 August 2006 (To read the full article, go to the reviews section) NEW YORK BLUE On April 25th, Valerie's debut release, "New York Blue", (Chesky) was released in the U.S and worldwide. The recording features pianist Andy Ezrin, drummer Gene Jackson, saxophonist Lawrence Feldman and bassists Tim Lefevre and Jon Hebert. DIGITAL MUSIC Valerie Joyce's music is now available on many digital music sites. Please check out the link to her favorite digital music site at Real Network's Rhapsody, or at Apple's iTunes.
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VALERIE JOYCE ON THE COVER OF EARSHOT JAZZ MAGAZINE