Sonya Lorelle's title track on her first album was coined by a stranger at a gas station who noticed her filling up her truck with a U-Haul attached. After she confirmed that she was indeed moving "by herself," he said in an impressed tone, "oh?! An 'Indepenent Woman'!" She soulfully delivers this debut collection of bluesy songs in an acoustic project that is raw and organic with just her golden voice and piano to back it up. Lorelle soon decided to take her style, described to be an upbeat version of Norah Jones and Carol King, on the road. She gave up her career as a counselor and lease on her apartment, priced her belongings, and began touring nationally and abroad.
During these travels alone she began writing a second set of songs to appear on her sophomore CD, "The Life You Wanted." Highlights include "Lost So Long" a light basso nova song inspired by her experience of being lost on the streets of Paris and Dublin. "Kiss Me Tonight" is a flirty jazz number about an impending first kiss. She takes her stong woman themes present in "Independent Woman" further into this new project. In one song, she tells a failed love to 'Go On With Your Life" and in "Bed Time Story, " she celebrates all that a woman has to offer by opening, "I'm a bedtime story and I'll rock you to sleep. I'm a buried treasure, a secret you keep." This distinctive mixture of Jazz, Blues, Fun and Pop is due out July 2005.
Most recently she was selected to perform in the South Florida Folk Festival in Ft Lauderdale in January 2005. Other accomplishments include being chosen as a showcasing artist for the 2005 Annual Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Music Festival & Conference and the 2003 Midwest Entertainment Industry Conference, at which her song “Independent Woman" was chosen for the compilation CD. She has received many awards throughout the years including 2nd place in Enormous Records Songwriting Contest in 1999, an Honor Award in the 2002 Great American Songwriting Contest, and was a finalist in the 2004 Philadelphia Songwriter's Project Road Song Contest and the 2005 Plowshares Songwriting Contest.
Hey! I wanted to let you know that I just posted two new songs from my debut album "Like I'm Beautiful" which comes out in March. I hope you'll check out the music and look for the album when it is released next month :)
Sonya, My wife and I just got married on September 15, 2007. I tell you this because your song "CLOSE ENOUGH" was our first dance. Thanks for being a part of our special day.
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And thank you for the beautiful music!!! Your music truly gets me through stressful days. I am blessed just to have found your sound at the Purple Fiddle. Any chance you will be playing close to Harrisonburg Va area in near future?
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