Wednesday 14 October 2009

Artist Research - Charlene Soraia

Influences:the Beatles, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan are her main influences. She also claims to enjoy listening to King Cromson, Muse and Led Zeppelin. However ther is not a big rock theme to her music.
Main Songs: "daffodils", "bike", "pictures in my mind", "I don't believe you" and "hello again". According to a poll on "last fm" "daffodils" the song for our video is by far her most well-known song.
History:Charlene started playing guitar age 5. It is obvious she found this as her passion as she was playing open mike seesions at age 8, and was a regular at the open mic circuit at age ten. She taught herself to play the guitar, and attended the "Brit School of Performing Arts" despite not having a GCSE in music. This has won her some acclaim. At this school she stopped performing acoustic and joined a band called "Retrospect". She pursued her solo career in 2008.
notable career achievements: attended the "Brit School of performing arts" without having the minumum requirement of a GCSE in music. This shows that she must have been very skillful in playing a guitar. She sang alongside Jose Gonzalez, Stephanie Dozen and Julien Verlard, who she sang a duet with. she perform at the Glastonbury festival, as she won the "emerging talents competition, giving her a spot at the prestigious festival. Charlene released her new EP entitled Daffodils & Other Idylls in March and has topped the uk Folk Charts on iTunes and will continue to play various shows around London in support of the record.

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