This music is inspired by 1930's jazz, Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass, Mowtown, 60's Soul, West Coast harmonies, Swing Jazz, New Orleans, MGM movie musicals, country, folk songs, 78's, hymns, and stuff like that. Judy Garland, Cass Elliot, Laura Nyro, Aretha Franklin, Judee Sill, Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, Carole King , Joni Mitchell,Dusty Springfield, Etta James, Miles Davis, Bacharach and David, Nina Simone, Tim Hardin, Bill Withers, Linda Rondstadt Mindy Smith Janis Joplin, Jimmy Webb, Bobbie Gentry, Leonard Cohen, Janis Ian, Marvin Gaye, Patsy Cline, Kate Bush, Lowell George, Irene Kral, Chrissie Hynde, Cat Stevens, The Indigo Girls, Eva Cassidy, Yip Harburg, Dolly Parton, Ennio Morricone,Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Townes Van Zant, Judy Collins, Cat Power, Van Morisson,Stacey Earle, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Sister Sledge, Linda Perry, Nick Drake, Pat Metheney, Diana Ross, Puccini, , Sam Cooke, Maria Mckee,, EmmyLou Harris, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, ,The Fifth Dimension, Jackson Browne, Morrissey, Stevie Wonder,JJ Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Maria Callas, Sinead O Connor, Beth Neilson Chapman, Roger Nichols, Julie Andrews, Donovan, Freddie Mercury, ,Ella Fitzgerald, Alicia Keys, Jackie DeShannon, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lesley Duncan, Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, Bette Midler, Petula Clark, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Lovin Spoonfull, Bonnie Raitt, ,George and Ira Gershwin, Dinah Washington, Harold Arlen,Michael Jackon, Patti Labelle, Percy Mayfield, Patty Larkin, Piero Picconi, Jerome Kern, Perry Como,Stephen Bishop, Edith Piaf, Fred Astaire, Carly Simon, Tom Waits, Denny Docherty, Oscar Hammerstein, Hoyt Axton, Simon and Garfunkel,John Martyn, , Rachmaninov, Tim Buckley, Steven Sondheim,Leonard Cohen, CSNY, Lesley Duncan, John Phillips,Cilla Black, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Tracey Thorn, Harry Nilsson, early Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Nancy Sinatra, The Roches, ..underground artists like Ben Taylor, Issac Taylor Peter Bruntnell, Traci Kennedy, Clyde Wright, Rick Blackman, Jonathan Dunning, Steve Brown, Rory More at the Lowrey Organ...But most of all, my greatest influence are my amazingly talented brothers and sisters...
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"Rumer is wonderful. A real gutsy singer" Carly Simon, in Word Magazine
"One rather talented young singer songwriter" Neil Mc Cormick, Daily Telegraph
"Listen to her and fall in love" Max Bell, Uncut
"Unbelievable voice" X Fm
" Straight out of Laurel Canyon" BBC London
"Effortlessly intimate, like a warm zephyr"BBC website
"Rumer as a soundtrack makes any day or night into a love fest....that voice of hers...and those looks. I have a real bad crush on her. but I am gay. GAY. GAY. GAY!"
Walter Briski Jr
Rumer (Sarah Rumer Joyce) was born in the Indus Valley of Pakistan in a construction colony in June 1979. She is the seventh child in a large ex pat family, who travelled the world through their father's civil engineering. The Joyces were a heavily Catholic and musical family, with everyone able to pick up the acoustic to strum a hymn or a folk ballad.
George Fields: Where do you come off sending me your roommate's play for you to star in? I'm your agent, not your mother! I'm not supposed to find plays for you to star in - I'm supposed to field offers! And that's what I do! Michael Dorsey: 'Field offers?' Who told you that, the Agent Fairy? That was a significant piece of work - I could've been terrific in that part. George Fields: Michael, nobody's gonna do that play. Michael Dorsey: Why? George Fields: Because it's a downer, that's why. Because nobody wants to produce a play about a couple that moved back to Love Canal. Michael Dorsey: But that actually happened! George Fields: WHO GIVES A SHIT? Nobody wants to pay twenty dollars to watch people living next to chemical waste! They can see that in New Jersey!
Michael Dorsey: Are you saying that nobody in New York will work with me? George Fields: No, no, that's too limited... nobody in Hollywood wants to work with you either. I can't even set you up for a commercial. You played a *tomato* for 30 seconds - they went a half a day over schedule because you wouldn't sit down. Michael Dorsey: Of course. It was illogical. George Fields: YOU WERE A TOMATO. A tomato doesn't have logic. A tomato can't move. Michael Dorsey: That's what I said. So if he can't move, how's he gonna sit down, George? I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato. Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber... I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass.
I'm a little bit sad, i missed your gig in Frankfurt. I'll be there in two weeks... Hope you come back soon for more concerts and please, more details about the record!!!
Sandy: A guy named les is sending you flowers? Michael Dorsey: Yes. He's a friend of mine. He can't eat candy he's diebetic. Sandy: Why is he thanking you for a lovely night in front of the fire. Michael Dorsey: [long pause] My minds a blank. Sandy: Micheal, are you gay? Michael Dorsey: In what sense?
Thanks for adding me, great song and a beautiful voice... I'm hoping to hear more from you soon, And I hope you can check out some of my tunes as well, Dave
Its been such a long while since we last heard you live and listening again to your site we are saying WHY? you voice is so beautiful and songs so good
As usual, I've been away from your MySpace too long! Vertigo is great fun! Just a little bit country and 100% knock out vocals--a terrific addition to your growing catalogue of inspired song stylings!!!
I've been listening to the album you sent...its really, really good. Great songs, interesting production and beautiful, soulful singing. Send your address and I will put a cd in the mail. Best of luck and let me know when you tour the US, Cary
I think your voice is just glorious! Is there anyway to get your music? You must come to America and perform sometime! If you ever want to, let me know and I can hook you up with some great venues! We just had Bobby Long and Marcus Foster perform at our venue last week!
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Hope you come back soon for more concerts and please, more details about the record!!!
