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CharleneSoraia.com
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Member Since7/4/2006
Band Websitecharlenesoraia.com
Band Members...Charlene Soraia...
InfluencesI don't like what I wrote before about the music I like... so I'm changing it... We're all kinda subconsciously influenced by all music but heres a list of things I like off the top of my head... the Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Fionn Regan, Thomas Dybdahl, 13th Floor Elevators, Soft Machine, Petrushka, Ian M Hale, Steely Dan, Nexus, Supergrass, Syd Barret, ROLF HARRIS, Smoke Feathers, *brains implodes*



I like melodic prog rock and psychedelia... I wish these two songs were written about me:

Letter To Hermione - DAVID BOWIE

Moonchild - KING CRIMSON



I can break down into tears at night listening to those songs... they are truely beautiful...
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Record Labeli bought a pack of sticky labels.... that'lll do..
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   About CharleneSoraia.com
...SIMPLY... I was concieved in a hospital store room and brought up listening to David Bowie, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan... I got my first guitar when I was 7, though my mother reckons I was 5, and started playing open mic nights when I was 8... I continued to do so untill I turned 16 and went to Brit School whereapon I met a crazy drummer and a ginger guy... I wrote some tunes, brought them forward to the "band" and we called ourselves Retrospect... I neglected my solo music and personal progression which is why I'm here!

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...Stoolpigeon said this:

Charlene Soraia tells me there’s a lunar eclipse next weekend. I ask her where. “In the sky, silly,” she says as she steals one of my crisps. “I wrote a lullaby about it last night. I made up a new word, too: ‘moonwink’. I swear I’m obsessed with the moon.”

That’s Charlene: a lunatic in the literal sense of the word; a space cadet in the figurative sense; and a musician from the moment she first snuck her father’s guitar from behind the sofa, laid the neck over her legs and started picking away at the strings until they snapped. “My dad would ask if I’d been playing with his guitar and I always said, ‘No, it was the cat, I saw her do it with her claws.’ I recently admitted that was a lie.”

Charlene got given her own guitar when she was five, played her first open mic night when she was eight and was a regular on the circuit by the time she was 10. She was 14 - and a convert to the transforming powers of psychedelic drugs - when she wrote ‘Stars Shoot By’, the song, she says, that turned her from a passable pop singer into a proper songwriter. In 2006 she released the ‘Lemonade’ EP, which in its contrasting shades of light and dark set the stage for two very different Charlene Soraias: the girl who likes to pick flowers and run through fields in frilly dresses, and the one who wants to float through the blackest fathoms of space watching planets being born.

“There are two sides to my music,” she says. “There’s the folky, idyllic side that comes out in songs like ‘Daffodils’ and ‘Lemonade’, and there’s the cosmic night time side, songs like ‘Jupiter’ and ‘Postcards From iO’. Although I actually thought Jupiter was the one with rings around it until recently. I also thought Io was the moon made of ice, but apparently that’s Ganymede. I guess ‘Io’ just sounds more like ‘ice’. ‘Ganymede’ sounds like a venereal disease.”

Patrick Moore will sleep easy tonight. Mariah Carey, however, may lie less peacefully on the perfumed pile of money she calls a bed, for the preening diva of dog-bothering octaves has a young contender hot on her heels, and Charlene has a secret weapon when it comes to hitting the high notes.

“I’ve got a little man with a needle who lives in my pocket, and there’s a tiny piano tattooed on my leg. Whenever I want to hit a high note I just give him a prod and he pinpricks the right one. It works every time.”

She also knows where to obtain excellent shrooms. The two facts may be related.



...Someone nice said this about a show off the Stephen Fretwell tour:

The South Londoner Brit School graduate Charlene Soraia who takes to the stage sings ... straddled with guitar and an impressive repertoire; jazz leanings and beautiful runs, rich flurries with reverb. Her voice breaks with meaning, cracks with purity, squeaks with pleasure, as fingers dance across fret like fireflies across an electrical lake. Humour runs amok (and laughter is permitted) on "Does She Fake Her Cum Face?" the sweet delight of a public display of revenge.

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zeelemy

zeelemy



Nov 17 2009 6:20 AM

Check out the video for Gone Away

Gift of Vision

Gift of Vision



Nov 16 2009 7:19 PM

Hi, thanks for join my list.

If you had a chance to listen to my music I'd like to thank you. If you haven't yet,let me know later if you liked it.




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Jane

Jane Austin



Nov 16 2009 5:09 PM

My Dear CharleneSoraia.com,
I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up CharleneSoraia.com.
Jane
PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
The Chakra

The Chakra



Nov 14 2009 1:18 PM

Boo!
Johnnie

Johnnie Bicket



Nov 14 2009 11:01 AM

YOU ARE AWESOME. 
Jane

Jane Austin



Nov 13 2009 10:42 AM

My Dear CharleneSoraia.com,
I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up CharleneSoraia.com.
Te
PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent

Chris

Chris Hill



Nov 11 2009 10:23 PM

Thanks for the acceptance. Love the EPs and look forward to an album. Hope all is well in your world :) x
Sounds Of The Canyon

Sounds Of The Canyon



Nov 11 2009 6:36 PM

YELP X
Sounds Of The Canyon

Sounds Of The Canyon



Nov 11 2009 6:31 PM

WOOF
Sara

Sara



Nov 10 2009 12:53 PM

Hey Charlene,

Just wanted to tell you how great you are. I love your songs :)

Best,
Sara  
Dan Wilder

Dan Wilder



Nov 5 2009 3:33 PM

...what a gift, sounds like this should flow from every tap! x
Purple Melon

Purple Melon



Nov 3 2009 4:23 AM

Ha....you mean that turd encrusted sofa bed!...class...
We all heard,saw, ate, smelt a lot of things from that sofa...the best of times.
You wont go wrong with Uncle Paul.xx
Pat D

Pat D



Nov 2 2009 7:10 AM

Thanks for the add! I love your music!!

Pat.
Joanna

Joanna Dixon



Oct 31 2009 4:00 PM

Thanks for the add, Glad to be friends :)
Dee

Denise clarkson



Oct 31 2009 11:17 AM

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Sounds Of The Canyon

Sounds Of The Canyon



Oct 31 2009 9:01 AM

your
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mikrodat

mikrodat



Oct 30 2009 6:47 PM


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Colyn

Colyn



Oct 30 2009 5:05 PM

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allen Poe


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Fear No Fish

Fear No Fish



Oct 21 2009 4:56 PM

Miss your face! :) x

Chris
Lejaune

Lejaune



Oct 7 2009 10:25 AM

hey what you up too? are the arts treating you good?
Paul Thomas Saunders

Paul Thomas Saunders



Oct 5 2009 1:06 PM

Salut! get your keester down to The Lexington tomorrow! It would be splendid to see you......
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Oct 3 2009 6:50 PM

Don't miss Jon Allen and his band headline at this stunning top class London venue.Union Chapel,
Compton Av, Islington,  London, N1 2XD - Tickets on sale now.

Hope to see you there
dee & linda xx
Alice Bean

Alice Bean



Sep 22 2009 4:09 PM

Cool...Lewi doesn't know I'm planning our wedding, maybe if he did we might get engaged.....hmmm...there's a thought! HEHE
But yay! Thanks!

Your wedding plans sounds brilliant! the jive would be awesome, a choreograhed jive with all the bridesmaids...classic!

Love love love to you toooooo! x x x x x x x  x x x x x x
adultchild

adultchild



Sep 21 2009 5:34 AM

your songs make me easy...so good
it's rainy in korea. how's there?
Alice Bean

Alice Bean



Sep 20 2009 4:59 PM

Sooooo...
I got the tattoo...i believe the 'Wedding' offer still stands?

Lewi (Lui hehe) and I went to my brother's wedding the other weekend and got into a discussion as to what our first dance will be...
Bike won't be the same without you playing us into our first dance...
yes yes yes?


PS: This is where you say yes :)


Love as always!

Alice
xXx
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