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Born in Rome, Chiara Civello grew up playing her grandmother’s piano. She attended a private music school, where she studied jazz and started singing professionally. While there, she won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. After a few years in the Boston club scene, Chiara moved to New York, where she immersed herself in Latin and Brazilian music, started writing her own songs and met legendary producer Russ Titelman who immediately got her signed to Verve Records and got her to write more songs.... Chiara's first album, Last Quarter Moon was released on Verve in 2005: a beautiful debut with all her songs plus "Trouble", a stunning ballad co written with Burt Bacharach.

Sultry voice, poetic lyrics and surprising harmonies are just a part of the recipe that makes Chiara’s music so irresistible. Her second album, The Space Between (Universal Jazz and Classics, 2007) shows us a much more intimate and immediate side of the singer songwriter, and leads us through a journey of thirteen beautiful moments where we feel we can get really close to her.

Chiara explores the space between through a variety of well-crafted songs, written alone and with collaborators. “After my first record, I picked up the guitar and combined my profound love for bossa nova with the need for finding a simple place within, from where things could flow, simple and true…The guitar is an instrument that allows me to feel extremely comfortable with not knowing what I’m doing…not having a name for every chord. I just go where it takes me…the power of forgetting over learning.”

“This is a record about ‘the space between’. The space between the notes, the silence between words, the space between me and you, me and my past, me and my future, and all the spaces between that nowadays are so difficult to stop and think about…the space between that makes you feel the reality better, the space that makes you miss someone, the space between that makes you not say everything all at once, but bit by bit, as the need of saying it gets stronger in you. The space between what I think and what I say…In Italy, we have a saying: Between saying and doing, there is the sea.”