Lady sings it blue.Singer Thalia Zedek Thalia Zedek (born 1961) is an American singer and guitarist. Biography Zedek grew up in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, attending Springbrook High School in Maryland, where she played clarinet in the marching band under band director Charles Sickafus. talks about the melancholy songs that have fueled her career for more than 20 years In the course of Thalia Zedek's 20-year music career, there has never been a shortage of praise for her or her music. The press has called her songs "a revelation," "impossibly original," and "enthralling en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. ," and she has received equally high marks from her peers: Indie-rock demigod (person) demigod - A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. Bob Mould is one of her admirers, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was a fan, and Indigo Girl Amy Ray Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964 in Decatur, Georgia, U.S.)[1], is a singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Ray grew up in Decatur, and went on to begin college at Vanderbilt University. has likened Zedek's voice to an "old Marlene Dietrich film." "Her songs have made a mark on every underground musician I know, from folk to punk," Ray says. After spending the '90s at the epicenter of the stormy blues-garage band Come, openly lesbian Zedek recently decided to deliver her new songs in the much quieter musical climate of piano and viola. The result is her current CD, Been Here and Gone (Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. ), a collection of her own soul-rending love songs, plus covers of the likes of Leonard Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. . "The bands I'd been playing in had been loud, guitar-oriented bands. The vocals almost became a backdrop," Zedek says of her stylistic switch. "It's much easier to be expressive when you can actually hear yourself!" A longtime fan of the emotional edge and melodic structure of torch songs, Zedek got the idea to do her own cabaret in 1999 after touring with Come. "Doing covers and standards was really good for me [because of their emphasis on melody]," she says of how the torch material informed her own songwriting process. She pauses and lights another cigarette in her two-pack-a-day habit. Twenty-five years of smoking has taken a toll on her physically--"I can feel the negative effects," she sighs--but it has also weathered her voice, helping to make it the dynamic instrument that it is today. Zedek's voice is as much her signature as her evocative lyrics are, and just as cigarettes have affected her vocal quality, so has another aspect of her life contributed to the tone of her songs. "I feel like all my records are breakup breakup The division of a company into separate parts. The most famous breakup to date was the 1984 division of AT&T (formerly, American Telephone & Telegraph Company). This breakup was intended to increase competition in the communications industry. records," she says. She divulges that she's in a relationship now, before adding with a laugh, "I put out a record every few years. At some point during that time, a relationship ends!" Gdula is a freelance writer who has written for The Washington Post and Details. |
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