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Sylvie Lewis

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  • Genre: Acousmatic / Tape music / Other

    Location London / Rome, Un

    Profile Views: 269300

    Last Login: 9/22/2012

    Member Since 3/3/2005

    Website www.sylvielewis.com

    Record Label Cheap Lullaby Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Basically I fell in love with Maria Von Trapp when I was 5 years old and decided I wanted to become a nun. About 10 years later it dawned on me that I liked the singing part more than the habits and I started writing songs. Now when life is good I play shows with likes of Sondre Lerche, Eleni Mandell, Anais Mitchell, Teitur, Ed Harcourt, Jennifer Kimball, Tobias Froberg, The New Standards, The Weepies, Catherine Feeny, Chris Pureka, Chiara Civello and occasionally, when he's free, with God (except he insists on the whole habit thing which I feel can be distracting from the music - don't you agree?). Recently, something very lovely happened. I met a band here in Rome where I live called L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and they asked me to join them for their realization of Mozart's "The Magic Flute". It's pretty radical and I'm honoured to be involved. We made our debut in June 2009 in Lyon, France and will be spreading the love through Europe and hopefully elsewhere in 2010 - stay tuned and find us - this show is not to be missed - and I can say that without being arrogant because I'm a cog in a big and beautiful wheel here folks. In the meantime I'm writing album number 3 which involves various co-writes from Nashville to Rio De Janeiro which I'll be recording at an undisclosed location (read: not sure where yet) with you-know-who as my producer and consort in March 2010. Whew - big sentence. I much prefer writing songs to writing bios.
  • Members

    Sylvie Lewis... who by the way does believe in advertising other artist's record release or shows on her site but only if I actually know you and we are real friends and I love you so please don't send me those promo messages if you are not a mate because I will just delete them! UK management - Gerry Lyseight (gerry@glpr.co.uk); US Press - Jesse Cutler (publicity@jpcutlermedia.com); US Booking - Jean Auber (constantlyinterrupted@googlemail.com); Europe Booking - Valerio (valerio.buenavista@yahoo.com).
  • Influences

    My mother. All three grandmothers. My sister. All those paid to teach me between ages 3 and 18 (my ages not the teachers' ages). Those are without doubt influences - I used to think it was important to draw a line between those who influence us and those we like the sound of. I wish I sounded like a lot of fabulous people - but I don't. Then again, influences are funny things, subliminally creeping along under the earth like tubers - once planted they spread unseen, making themselves visible every few yards if you're lucky. You can hear for yourself right here what I sound like...and those that I like the sound of (and hope have given me a few potatoes) are: The Everly Brothers, Binnie Hale, Arundhati Roy, Kurt Weill, Frank Loesser, Vinicio Capossela, Eudora Welty, Gene Autry, Zora Neale Hurston, Flanders and Swann, Paolo Conte, Mayte Martin, Ben Okri, Zarah Leander, Hal David, Claude Debussy, Camille Claudel, Lucio Dalla (1960's and 70's), Gianmaria Testa (Album = Lampo), Edith Piaf, Georgia O'Keefe, The Books, Avion Travel, Serge Gainsbourg (early on, cheri), Caetano Veloso, Duke Ellington, Michael Cunningham, Salman Rushdie, George and Ira Gerswin, Sondre Lerche, Cole Porter, Julian Barnes, Noel Coward, Ed Harcourt, Crescent and Frost, Kate Atkinson, Kate Schutt, Sam Cooke, Randy Newman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Denver, Lori Cullen, L.S Lowry, Koko Bonaparte, and pretty much anyone who wrote a song with the name Martha in it. I would also like to credit my Dad's particularly unique mix tapes - never before, never since has there been a DJ like him. And now a note on Hemmingway. I hated him when I first read him. But here's the fantasmically wonderful thing about art - it exists. And so do we. And when we meet for the first time I might be someone to whom "The Garden of Eden" is not relevant. I become frustrated that I don't know what all the fuss is about and then brush it off. A few years later along comes an "old man and the sea" and I was flawed. What changed? Me. I was ready. And that's one of the most beautiful things about art - it waits for you to get it. And that means there's hope. And beauty around every corner. Just hold on. ..
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    She spent a lot of time with grandpa's record collection and/or communing with nature...

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  • Richard Harris


    May an ANGEL always watch over you Sylvie!
     

    "JACKSON'S LOVE - FOR THE LOVE OF A CHILD" -  MY BRAND NEW CD - HAS JUST BEEN RECORDED - WATCH FOR IT SOON @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT ANGELS ...

    “We are, each of us ANGELS with only ONE WING;

    and we can only fly by EMBRACING ONE ANOTHER.”

    ~ Luciano de Crescenzo

    WE ARE ONE ANOTHER'S ANGELS!

     With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE, my friend

    Richard

    www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    Please take a minute and give my music a listen!

    MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com

    8 months ago
  • Renato Benvenuto

     Cara Sylvie, l’altra sera rivisto il Flauto magico: spettacolo magnifico, sempre più solido, specie musicalmente. Ti ho vista molto bene e a tuo agio, e ti rinnovo qui i miei complimenti; che avrei voluto esprimerti di persona: sono passato a salutare e mi spiace di non averti incontrata.  Alla prossima occasione…
    un saluto renato

    1 year ago
  • Rick Slater

    Hi Sylvie, it's been some time. I hope all is well. Loved listening to "Death by Beauty" today.

    2 years ago
  • AVVOLTE

    AVVOLTE - L'essenziale è invisibile agli occhi
    ....................

    2 years ago
  • Stonefront (((Nueva can…

    Greets from México amiga!

    2 years ago
  • Gutpuppet

    wonderful voice and song-smithing ~ !

    2 years ago
  • The Constellations

    Hello Sylvie. Welcome to our galaxy.

    3 years ago
  • William Snyder Publishi…

    Thanks for the Add......

    Happy Wenesday.........

    if you write- I publish - (always looking for poems)

    great photos.......

    thanks again !

    William

    Snyder Publishing

    3 years ago
  • Giles Winterton

    Hi Sylvie Lewis, thanks for being a friend.

    3 years ago
  • TEDY BLOW & Big Money

    Je passe prendre des newz, i hope u good.

    Tedy Blow.

    3 years ago
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