Category: Music
George Ezra
George Ezra (born George Ezra Barnett), 21, is a British singer songwriter. His debut studio album Wanted on Voyage will be released on 30 June 2014. Ezra was longlisted for the BBC Sound of…2014, where he eventually finished in fifth place.
Ezra is the he son of an art teacher and a deputy head. Music trickled down to him via an elder sister, a regular at local venue the Marquee (“She was going out with the promoter”). He made his stage debut at the Marquee as a 13-year-old in a covers band, “singing the female part of Teenage Dirtbag, wearing eyeliner and my sister’s skinny jeans”. When he left school at 16 he took a job in a local sweet factory – “two jellybeans for the box, one for me, all the way.” Ezra dropped out of college and embarked on a year of support slots, criss-crossing the country by train. Within a year he had a record deal with Columbia. (Source: The Guardian: George Ezra)
Find this song on iTunes on his EP titled Did You Hear The Rain.
His website can be found here: The Official George Ezra website
Triple Smack-Down: Cloud Cult
There is something special here. Can’t put a finger on it. I introduced Cloud Cult earlier this month. (Their bio is worth checking out.) And when you can’t seem to get enough of something that good (ice cream, pasta, Cloud Cult), you just keep bringing it. Here’s three new clips from Cloud Cult: Chemicals Collide. You Were Born. Breakfast With My Shadow.
Find their album on iTunes here: Unplug
Emilíana Torrini
Emilíana Torrini, 37, is an Icelandic singer, best known for her 2009 single “Jungle Drum” (14,000,000+ Youtube views) and for performing “Gollum’s Song” for Peter Jackson’s film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Torrini grew up in Kópavogur, where, at the age of seven, she joined a choir as a soprano, until she went to opera school at the age of 15. Her father is Italian and her mother is Icelandic.
Find this tune on her September, 2013 Album titled Tookah. Find her website @ emilianatorrini.com.
Dark Coffee
She has been compared to Cat Power and Nora Jones, and some of her musical influences include Feist and Regina Spektor. She is largely known for her acoustic covers, as well as some originals, on YouTube. Her videos have been viewed more than 17 million times by world-wide audiences, leading to more than 200,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 70,000 followers on Facebook. Dark Coffee is a Daniela Andrade original.
If you liked this, check out Daniela singing Daughter’s Youth (Cover) and Glen Hansard’s Falling Slowly (Cover)
Find her albums on iTunes here: Things We’ve Said and Covers.