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DANIELA NARDI
Acoustic / Nu-Jazz / Rock

		Female Vocalist of the Year-Smooth Jazz Awards 09 Toronto, New York Canada Profile Views: 207522 Last Login: 12/18/2009
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8/8/2005

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DNA5 are: Daniela Nardi (voice/piano) and a cast of fascinating characters!!

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Everything that touches my heart and makes me think but also: Sting/The Police, Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Paolo Conte, Charlie Chaplin, Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, Rilke, Yeats, Roberto Benigni, Federico Fellini, Anna Magnani, B.K.S Iyengar

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Daniela Nardi "The Rose Tattoo"
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Daniela Nardi "One True Thing"
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Minerva Road

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Indie

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About DANIELA NARDI

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The Making of the Rose Tattoo Part 1

The Making of the Rose Tattoo Part 2

Biography:

The recent journey of Toronto-based songstress Daniela Nardi may have been a turbulent and traumatic one, but she has emerged in triumphant style with The Rose Tattoo. This musically evocative and deeply emotional work reflects life lessons learned, and fuses passion, poetic power, and musical and vocal skill, to striking effect.

The follow-up to One True Thing, Nardi's well-received 2003 debut, it represents a major creative step forward. The gap between releases is attributable to a case of real life getting in the way. In 2004, Nardi's mother Rosetta was diagnosed with cancer, and her loving daughter devoted herself full-time to her mother's care. "I just stopped working on music," she recalls. "Nothing else mattered."

As her mother defied the odds by beating the cancer into temporary remission, Daniela was gradually able to return to her creative self. "Emotionally, it has been very tough. I had the intensity of a life and death situation to deal with and it shook me to my core. Some artists thrive in that kind of emotional stress but I need to process it. I was blocked but it was almost as if my subconscious took over, and things just came out. Now, I read what is written and I'm like 'where did that come from?' Consciously I would not be able to write that."

Once fully committed to working on the new record, Nardi remained careful not to rush the process. A self-confessed perfectionist, she makes no apologies for her painstaking approach. "To me, a song is like a lump of clay. I have to keep massaging it until something finally takes shape," she explains. "Perhaps it's my Italian heritage that when I embark on a project, I will work on it until it has been finely shaped. Like a fine Barolo or delicate espresso, nothing leaves our hands half done."

For The Rose Tattoo, Daniela was looking to work with someone to help realize her vision of acoustic nu-jazz blended with electronic music. That key collaborator is noted Toronto producer Greg Kavanagh (BKS, Jennifer Warnes, Chrissie Hynde). Daniela's production of her debut was impressive, but, as she notes, "I knew my second record had to up the ante. There was a certain finesse, a certain polish, that I felt I couldn't achieve on my own. I wanted another set of ears to help me add that, and it has been a match made in heaven with Greg. He's so passionate and understanding and we're on the same musical wavelength." Together they have brought about an evolution and transformation in Daniela's sophisticated sound, while preserving the essence of her earlier sound.

Working in Kavanagh's studio Kavasound, Daniela refused to let herself be confined by genre boundaries in framing her songs musically. Daniela's open-minded and adventurous approach is typified by such touches as the sound of Calabrian women singing on the opening of "Rosetta" and the sample of Martin Luther King's legendary "I have a dream" speech that leads off "The Longest Road," the epic closing track that also features Arabic chanting.

Daniela has drawn comparisons to Sting, Annie Lennox and Joni Mitchell but the only word for her eclectic sound is "earthymodernjazzpopcool," while subtly effective touches of electronica also infuse these new songs. "I've always loved electronica and groups like Massive Attack or Moby," she explains. "Here, I used some of those elements to blend with the acoustic, adding little colours and using the electronica as a modern-day percussion. I wanted to take listeners to a new place with this record yet creating a bridge between the old and the new."

While justifiably proud of One True Thing and the impact it had (rave international reviews and extensive adult contemporary and smooth jazz radio play in North America), Daniela stresses that "the new songs are much stronger than the first record. I spent a lot of time thinking about melody. In thinking about this record, I recalled the bands that I used to listen to and what inspired me to write. I listened to a lot of pop music then, bands like The Police, The Eurythmics. Their songs and melodies were just so well-crafted and well-produced, such integrity to the work. I wanted to accomplish the same thing with this new record. It was the same with the words. I tried to be more specific, more concise. Keep them simple, but with a depth to them.'

Mission accomplished here. The marriage of strong melodies and concise yet convincing lyrics is a happy one. Nardi acknowledges that the record's stylistic diversity "may be a surprise to those who like the first record. I'm exploring myself emotionally and vocally. I was forced to go deeper, and find my cutting emotional edge. The album shows how my life has been transformed in the past three years, and the intense feelings I experienced."

The focus on the album is always kept on the key instrument, Daniela's strong, pure and haunting vocals. These are equally at home on tender ballads ("Grace," "Rosetta," the gorgeous "Cry") and the bluesy gem "Fugitive Kind," whose swampy vibe befits the Southern setting.

There's a compelling story behind the choice of album title, as Daniela recalls. "It was inspired from the time my mom was in hospital. I remember one specific day there with her, and I was thinking of possible titles. I was thinking of the mark she has left on my heart, the Rose mark, but that's not very poetic. That's when the movie title came to mind." The Rose Tattoo, a drama based on a Tennessee Williams play, scored a handful of Academy Awards in 1956, and their shared emotional power makes the album and movie fitting namesakes.

On The Rose Tattoo, Nardi calls upon the services of an A list of local players, including drummer Davide DiRenzo, bassists Rich Brown and George Koller, saxophonist Colleen Allen, vocalist/oud player Mel M'Rabet, additional programming by Giampaolo Scatozza, and Kavanagh on guitar.

Daniela contributed as the co and executive producer of the album as well as, most of the programming, plus piano and keyboards. Her fluent and technically flawless playing reflects her extensive classical music training. From age five, she was studying music through the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, and her studies culminated in a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from York University. Her specialties there were composition, electronic music and performance in 20th Century Music and Improvisation, and this academic background is a potent part of her artistic arsenal.

Nardi has composed for various independent films, and her resume includes experience as an actor and sought-after voice-over artist. Nardi is both an experienced and naturally charming performer who has delighted audiences in leading Toronto clubs (The Montreal Bistro, Lula Lounge) and at festivals in both Canada (Rimouski Jazz Festival, Distillery Jazz) and abroad (in front of 100,000 people at a festival in Indonesia, in tandem with her jazz piano virtuoso husband Ron Davis).

The Rose Tattoo is a journey of passion, finesse, intensity, and artistry, an album that will etch itself upon both head and heart. It's Daniela Nardi 2008: as great as before, better than ever, with so much more to come.

On May 14th, 2008, two days after Mother's day and two days before Daniela's birthday, Rosie "Rosetta" Nardi passed away quietly from her four year long battle with cancer. Rosie was able to witness the completion of daughter's album. The album is dedicated to her and all cancer warriors.

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Luis Hernandes	Dec 18 2009 3:26 AM I'm really glad to have you as a MySpace friend. All the best, Luis Hr
Luis Hernandes	Dec 18 2009 3:26 AM I passed by! to leave you a smile! Luis Hernandes
Greg Frank	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM Good Page and ☼ Thanks for the add ☺
Valeria Vereau	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM Thanks for the add, you sing beautifully..
URBAN DESERT	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM LOVE GUIDANCE & RESPECT
Tim Cheatle Online Now!	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM Hiya Daniela! Musical greetings from Portsmouth,England! God Bless, Tim.
Luis Hernandes	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM I wish you a great Christmas holidays!!!! Thanks Luis Hr
Dominic Mancuso	Dec 18 2009 3:25 AM Ciao Bella, just put on your music and had to say..aaahhhh...i'm feelin it!! 2010...we must get together.. wishing you and Ron the happiest of holidays..... a presto. ok! Dom
Jean-Philippe ICHARD	Nov 24 2009 9:29 PM Hi! Thanks for your friendship Greetings from PARIS Jean-Philippe
Mr Charles Productions	Nov 24 2009 9:29 PM Hello! Just wanted to drop by and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday :) Hit me up sometime!
Carlos Macedo Online Now!	Nov 17 2009 11:46 PM HI Daniela congratulations for your music ,thanks for accepting to be part of this my litle space between my friends. I wish well in your career. I hope you like a litle my music .Is FADO . Thank you Carlos Macedo.
Carlos Macedo Online Now!	Nov 17 2009 11:46 PM Congratulations for your music ,i wish you many success in your career. Thank you for accepting to be part of this my litle space . I hope you like a litle my music, im from Portugal and i sing FADO. OBRIGADO Carlos Macedo.
Hillu	Nov 17 2009 11:46 PM Hi Daniela, i just thought of you and posted your new video.....so nice new pic of you here....did you meet Rhani in Toronto? I met Michael Kaeshammer from Toronto who also lives in NYC 2 days ago at his German Tour in Hannover....I love his voice and piano as much as yours...he is also an Annie Lennox fan....do you know him, too? Lots of Love, Hillu
Brenda Lewis ~ Jazz Vocalist	Nov 17 2009 11:46 PM Hi Daniela - Just taking a break from the Facebook addiction (LOL) to say Hello from over here, for a change! Glad to see and hear you doing so well :-) Brenda
Wander	Nov 10 2009 8:41 PM Thanks for the friendship!,
Nino Mezzapelle	Nov 10 2009 8:41 PM Hi Daniela, Thanks for your friendship, what beautiful music! ♥Grazie di cuore E' un onore per me Un musicalissimo abbraccio, Nino♥ Greetings from Italy
The DoneFors	Oct 26 2009 2:10 PM We're spying on you. love, The DoneFors
Il Campione	Oct 26 2009 2:10 PM Hello my sweet friend, happy week end whit Music&Love
Hillu	Oct 26 2009 2:10 PM Dear Daniela, did you manage to meet Rhani this year? Do you think he gave your album to Annie? I am very curious about that and wish all the best to you personal life as well as your career.....you are wonderful! Love&greetings from Germany Hillu
Jahn TI www.twitter.com/jahnti	Oct 17 2009 2:54 AM Thanks and Blessings. Jahn T.I
Leonardo Palumbo	Oct 17 2009 2:54 AM Ciao Daniela, grazie mille per l'add!!!! A presto Leo
Ultradave	Oct 17 2009 2:54 AM soooo good!
pierluigi	Oct 8 2009 10:36 PM Thanks for the friendship
SoulClap	Oct 8 2009 10:36 PM just showin some love, have a nice day....sc
Hillu	Oct 6 2009 3:25 AM Dear Daniela, I am still thinking of you and listening to your tunes! I am very surprised that one of my dreams came recently true with the tour of Michael Kaeshammer here in Germany in November - he will perform in 5 towns....I hope one day to receive you too!!! Have a wonderful week-end, my dear friend!

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