Monday, December 21, 2009

Jacque Brel’s Brussels Interpreted by Cabaret Star Sheera Ben-David

John Hoglund, of Cabaret Scenes afresh commented, “On her aberrant new album, On a Carousel, Sheera Ben-David celebrates a decade of songs from her life. Recorded abide at the Metropolitan Room, with her multi-talented brother Adam Ben-David as agreeable director, the album is a affected adventure of absorption that resonates with anyone who anytime had a dream.”

The analysis appropriate that starting with the agreeable “I Miss the Mountains” (Kitt-Yorkey), Ben-David captures both an chastity and a astute ability alloyed with a admiring for activity that is palpable. With accurate phrasing, she unleashes a avalanche of affect in song that allows the adviser to blink central a centered artisan who has asperous some bumps and confused on. Warm readings on “Here’s to Life” (Butler-Molinary) and Leslie Bricusse’s “When I Look in Your Eyes” are absolute samplings of one who has lived and understands the subtexts she’s singing about. She address even added on John Bucchino’s “If I Ever Say I’m Over You” and “This Moment” as able-bodied as on two of Jacques Brel’s corybantic mad scenes, “Brussels” and “Carousel,” area she gets to breathe new activity into these chichi affected neo-classic war horses.

Sheera Ben-David said of the Jacque Brel song “Brussels”, “I about accept a afterpiece accord with apathetic songs, so a fast amount has to be appealing alarming for me to accomplish it my own. Brussels has this abundant way of appropriation your alcohol with its airy rhythm, but I adulation the bond of the lyrics again accepting so dark. The irony makes it such a fun and agrarian song to sing.”

The album was called Cabaret Hotline Online’s Outstanding Female Vocalist Album. Complementing Adam Ben-David’s abstract arrange are Mat Fieldes on bass, David Rozenblatt and Damien Bassman on drums and J.J. McGeehan on guitars.

For decades, Sheera’s mother, Batyah Godfrey, was a accompanist at the Metropolitan Opera. Their father, Kerry Ben-David - who met Batyah at Juilliard - was cantor at Scarsdale Synagogue for two decades afterwards alive at the Rome Opera as a Fulbright scholar.
"When we were growing up, we spent a lot of time backstage at the Met," recalls Sheera, "I spent a lot of time accepting apparent to what I accede still the finest of the finest if it comes to music. I accept a abysmal acknowledgment for classical and opera and all those things."
She aswell was fatigued to angelic singing.

This June, the New York cabaret brilliant gave bearing to her aboriginal child, Baxter. Sheera insists that Baxter is her best achievement to date, about those alert to this amazing CD may beg to alter if alert to this amazing adolescent woman sing.

At the 20th Annual Cabaret Convention captivated this accomplished October at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, Sheera Ben-David accustomed the Julie Wilson Award. The CD, On a Carousel, is produced and abiding by Adam Ben-David, and is accessible at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sheerabendavid2/from/tblink.

Sheera Ben-David
www.sheerabendavid.com

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