SOFIA LAITI: A TRILOGY OF SENSUALITY, INTELLECTUALISM AND VOCAL VIRTUOSITY!

SOPHIA LAITI: CLASS AND STYLE!

But to do that, the cabaret artist has to be powerful and sweet, convincing and rebellious, trustworthy but fatal,  mature and nonchalant, realistic but unconventional, captivating but blaze, sensually appealing but arrogantly distant with charm and mysteries...Now, you blend all these attributes, qualities and adjectives, and you get a  great Cabaret Chanteuse. Well?! Sofia Laiti is this kind of cabaret Chanteuse. In Laiti's voice, you sense, you feel, you smell the sensual fragrance of a femme fatale. In Laiti's voice, you discover how enchanting and alarming is to look -straight in the eyes- at a woman who is physically captivating, emotionally threatening to our health and intelligently motivating. Laidi's voice gives you this sensation: Sensuality, intelligence, comfort, motivation.

TWO THUMBS UP FOR " YOU DON'T KNOW ME".

Critics who reviewed her recent CD "You Don't Me" called her a jazz singer, and referred to her as a singer who is "taking jazz into a new direction." Others wrote " Ms. Laiti has a romantic, sensual voice, with softness of real jazz sound..." Fine! This is very true but, not true enough! For they have missed the "class", the "elegance", the "melodrama", the "intelligence", the " intellectual eroticism", the "aroma of a femme fatale", the "aura of La Dame Tragique",  and the "roaring finesse " in the voice of Sofia Laiti. "You Don't Know Me" has 12 songs; a bouquet of standards and well-known or well-liked hits such as "Besame Mucho", "La Vie En Rose", "If You Go  Away" (Originally -Ne Me Quittes Pas- by Jacques Brel) and "The Way We Were". The only problem I have with this CD is this: Why Ms . Laiti did not record her own songs? Why not REAL...ORIGINAL...NEW MATERIAL? Why to sing others' songs? I do not want to hear her answer. For, I know already what she is going to say. And this frightens and chagrins me! With such an unusual one million per cent "woman-warm-captivating-sensual-intellectual-challenging-motivating-nostalgic-Cabaret Noire voice" Sofia Laiti could and would do better singing her own songs. Maybe one day! A L'Aube Du Grand Jour!  Two thumbs up! Ms. Laiti new CD "You Don't Me" is superb. Almost perfect. A vocal and musical treasure. She was lucky, she got the best musicians in the business to accompany her. Great virtuosi, like Larry Ham on the piano, the fabulous and incomparable  Houston Person on saxophone, Leon Lee Dorsy on the bass and Vince Ector on the drums.

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