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Barcelona Nights

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Released: Jan 1, 2008

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Barcelona Nights
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Genre: Alternative / Folk Rock / Pop
Location CHICAGO, Illinois, US
Profile Views: 35889
Last Login: 8/3/2012
Member Since 3/27/2006
Website http://www.victoriafullermusic.com/
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ............ ....* Honorable mention winner of the 2005 Billboard Song Contest for " Your Heart"........* Honorable mention winner of the 2006 "We Are Listening" Singer/Songwriter Award (in association with Berklee College of Music) for "Right One, Wrong Time"........* Rock Alternative Honorable Mention winner of the 2007 11th Annual Unisong Songwriting Contest for "I Saved Me" and "Small Moments"........* Nominee Award Winner 2008 Independent Singer/Songwriter Association for "Barcelona Nights" Jazz Category..................Victoria Fuller..........Buy songs on iTunes..........Debut CD Small Moments for sale on CD Baby.............."Victoria Fuller's CD "Small Moments" is a wonderful listening experience. It is full of those "small moments" that bring back a memory, make you laugh, or even bring a tear to your eye. Victoria is an artist, and like the finest works of art, her songs continually reveal new subtleties on repeated listening. She reveals herself to be a gifted singer-songwriter,with a voice that serves her songs well." Reviewer: John Rose, host of the weekly internet music program .."Hidden Treasures" on UIC Radio/................................. ......"Front and center is Fuller’s voice, which caresses each melody like a wrapper on candy. She manages to evoke Joni Mitchell without sounding like Mitchell, or Rickie Lee Jones without mimicking Jones. Her supple voice moves quickly and easily through a range of styles including jazz, folk and rock, often in the same song, sometimes in the same chorus. The title track exemplifies this. Lyrically, the fully arranged “Why We Can’t Agree” manages to reconcile pathos and playfulness in a very disarming and surprising way." Reviewer- BRUCE MENIN, Indie - InTune, Small Moments CD Review, August 18th 2007, Vol 3- No. 8 ......... Victoria Fuller is both a singer/songwriter and an accomplished ....sculptor/painter.... who has exhibited her work at the Chicago Cultural Center, at the Navy Pier large-scale outdoor sculpture show, and extensively throughout the United States.. Her sound is Folk Rock Pop with a jazz blues edge, with a voice that's a cross between Joni Mitchell & Ricky Lee Jones. Her songs tell stories of love lost and found, overcoming struggles, and finding the good in life. A self-taught guitar player, Victoria began writing songs at age 13. In search of knowledge and adventure she traveled to different places in the world before moving to Chicago to get a degree in art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she eventually put down roots. She has won a number of honors from song contests including Billboard, We Are Listening, and Unisong. ......Radio airplay: WZRD Chicago 88.3 (Northeastern Illinois University), WXRT, 93.1 FM Chicago, Chicago's "Local Anesthetic show", UIC Radio Chicago "Hidden Treasures Show", Songwriter's Network, and WGN Radio. ........(Victoria working on sculpture) .. .. .. ..
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....photo by Ron Seymour.... Victoria plays acoustic guitar, sings, and writes the songs. She performs with various back up musicians at bigger venues, or does solo performances.
Influences
Victoria Fuller's music is folk rock with jazz, blues, and Pop influences. As a young girl she listened to folk singers Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell. Other influences: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Lead Zepplin, Jethro Tull, Yes, James Taylor, Carol King, Simon and Garfunkel, Laura Nyro, Blood Sweat and Tears, Brazilian and contemporary jazz ( Jobim, Astrid Gilberto, Chick Correa, Weather Report)( Older Jazz vocalists: Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holliday, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, and musicians Stephan Grapelli, Django Reinhardt), Crosby Stills Nash and Young, James Talor, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Ricky Lee Jones, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Lyle Lovett, Steely Dan, Sting, Chrissy Hinds( Pretenders), Aime Mann, Shawn Colvin, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel, Gypsy Kings. Now listening to: Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Zero 7, Sufjan Stevens, Fiona Apple, Feist, Sia, Jack White, Beck, Filter.
Sounds Like
Even though her voice may not sound like all of these people, you can probably hear their influences in Victoria's sound and style: ....Joni Mitchell, Rickey Lee Jones, Aimee Mann, Shawn Colvin, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Ani Difranco, Flora Purim, Astrid Gilberto, Chrissy Hinds, Sheryl Crow. Male influences: The Beatles, Sting, Jobim. ..............Tim Bales play trumpet onstage with Victoria........Pals at CD release party........More pals............Victoria and Evan Cauble-Johnson........Victoria's sculpture "Shoe of Shoes"..........Victoria's sculpture "Safety Star"

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Apr 17

Victoria Fuller

I have been writing a new song and will add it to the new CD I am working on - to be released next year.
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Apr 10

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We're number 8 on the ReverbNation Singer Songwriter charts for Chicago, IL.
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We're number 10 on the ReverbNation Singer Songwriter charts for Chicago, IL. http://lnk.ms/f4RgD
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Bio:

* Honorable mention winner of the 2005 Billboard Song Contest for " Your Heart"..
* Honorable mention winner of the 2006 "We Are Listening" Singer/Songwriter Award (in association with Berklee College of Music) for "Right One, Wrong Time"..
* Rock Alternative Honorable Mention winner of the 2007 11th Annual Unisong Songwriting Contest for "I Saved Me" and "Small Moments"..
* Nominee Award Winner 2008 Independent Singer/Songwriter Association for "Barcelona Nights" Jazz Category..

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..Victoria Fuller
Buy songs on iTunes

Debut CD Small Moments for sale on CD Baby..

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"Victoria Fuller's CD "Small Moments" is a wonderful listening experience. It is full of those "small moments" that bring back a memory, make you laugh, or even bring a tear to your eye. Victoria is an artist, and like the finest works of art, her songs continually reveal new subtleties on repeated listening. She reveals herself to be a gifted singer-songwriter,with a voice that serves her songs well." Reviewer: John Rose, host of the weekly internet music program "Hidden Treasures" on UIC Radio/...

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"Front and center is Fuller’s voice, which caresses each melody like a wrapper on candy. She manages to evoke Joni Mitchell without sounding like Mitchell, or Rickie Lee Jones without mimicking Jones. Her supple voice moves quickly and easily through a range of styles including jazz, folk and rock, often in the same song, sometimes in the same chorus. The title track exemplifies this. Lyrically, the fully arranged “Why We Can’t Agree” manages to reconcile pathos and playfulness in a very disarming and surprising way." Reviewer- BRUCE MENIN, Indie - InTune, Small Moments CD Review, August 18th 2007, Vol 3- No. 8 .....

Victoria Fuller is both a singer/songwriter and an accomplished sculptor/painter who has exhibited her work at the Chicago Cultural Center, at the Navy Pier large-scale outdoor sculpture show, and extensively throughout the United States.. Her sound is Folk Rock Pop with a jazz blues edge, with a voice that's a cross between Joni Mitchell & Ricky Lee Jones. Her songs tell stories of love lost and found, overcoming struggles, and finding the good in life. A self-taught guitar player, Victoria began writing songs at age 13. In search of knowledge and adventure she traveled to different places in the world before moving to Chicago to get a degree in art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she eventually put down roots. She has won a number of honors from song contests including Billboard, We Are Listening, and Unisong.

Radio airplay: WZRD Chicago 88.3 (Northeastern Illinois University), WXRT, 93.1 FM Chicago, Chicago's "Local Anesthetic show", UIC Radio Chicago "Hidden Treasures Show", Songwriter's Network, and WGN Radio.

(Victoria working on sculpture)

Members:

photo by Ron Seymour

Victoria plays acoustic guitar, sings, and writes the songs. She performs with various back up musicians at bigger venues, or does solo performances.

Sounds Like:

Even though her voice may not sound like all of these people, you can probably hear their influences in Victoria's sound and style:

Joni Mitchell, Rickey Lee Jones, Aimee Mann, Shawn Colvin, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Ani Difranco, Flora Purim, Astrid Gilberto, Chrissy Hinds, Sheryl Crow. Male influences: The Beatles, Sting, Jobim.