"...a beautiful soul singer; she is destined for big things."
Janice Savage, Entertainment Booker for Spirit of the Sea Festival, White Rock, BC
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“Manuela stands out from the crowd. Her quiet, unassuming offstage presence vanishes when she's in front of a mic, replaced by a confident, tuneful chanteuse. Her songs are perfectly rendered pop/jazz/folk numbers that are played with a professionalism that is downright uncanny. I've booked hundreds of solo singer/songwriters over the past years. Manuela is right in there with the best of the best.”
John Pippus , Singer/Songwriter, Trees Coffee House Booking Agent, Vancouver, BC
www.johnpippus.com
Influences
John Mayer, Corinne Bailey Rae, Alicia Keys, Motown, and anything that moves the soul!
For the first eighteen years of her life, Manuela had lived on three different continents, and four different countries. Being a Kenyan, Swiss, and Canadian it wasn’t until she lived in the Bahamas during her high school years, that she even considered becoming a musician. Diving deep into all things musical she taught herself how to play the guitar and piano and began singing and leading services at her church. It was there in 2003 that she recorded and released her first EP “Some Kind of Wonderful.”
Several years later and with a move back to Canada, Manuela found herself in the middle of the Canadian Prairies attending college and slowly discovering and sinking deeper into the sounds of old soul and contemporary jazz pop. This birthed the beginning of a new musical sound for Manuela and with this new sound came the release of “The Love EP” in 2008, which was debuted to a packed house at the CD release garnering great local success. Shortly following this release she moved to Vancouver immersing herself in the music scene as a solo artist. Getting the attention of some prominent singer-songwriter venues Manuela was able to hone her performance skills with numerous live shows and begin to deeper define the sound that is her own.
Without taking away from the beauty of her lyrical themes, it’s the music that really makes Manuela stand out as an emerging artist. Embracing the spirit of old soul and present musical mentors like John Mayer, and Corinne Bailey Rae, Manuela has the ability to take her influences and effortlessly reinvent them into her own unique style.February 9, 2010 will see the release of her first full-length album “A Different Kind of Fire,” released on her own Independent label, Golden Recordings.
This coming year will surely see great things from this artist as she not only awaits the release her new album but as she supports it with a Western Canadian tour to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Hey! Just thought you would like to know that we posted 4 brand new songs from our new album. Check them out and let us know what you think! You are cool!
yea, I can't actually get your songs out of my head. They're great, ... maybe I don't want them out of my head :),.. anyway you slice it, its really good stuff and I'm glad I heard it.
haha I'll give you spanish lessons if you give me guitar:)I think that sounds like a good idea...haha omg Tessa is sooo big now, you have to come see her, super cute....hows church? we should do something sometime =) any other upcoming shows? xox
Manuela, Thank you so much for the add! We appreciate your support very much! We really hope that you enjoy our music! The demos are kinda rough but we'll begin recording our 1st cd on May the 18th so hopefully it won't be too long and we'll have much better versions up! Have a great weekend! God bless!
