Sunday, February 24, 2013

SlippedDisc: 'Rub your ears: Fast-rising pop star came out of … top symphony orchestra'

Laura Mvula

Sergio Mims sends this link:

Arts Journal
February 22, 2013 by

We hear that Laura Mvula – the singer-songwriter whose debut album, Sing to the Moon, is being tipped for the charts – has come up through the classical hothouse.


No sooner did we admire the quality of her debut track this morning than friends at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra popped up to tell us that Laura used to play in the first violin section of the CBSO Youth Orchestra and worked until last year as receptionist at the CBSO Centre. She played in The Firebird under Sakari Oramo and in the world premiere of Tansy Davies Streamlines. ‘She’s classically trained to the hilt, profoundly musical, and as modest and engaging as anyone could wish,’  says Birmingham classical music writer Richard Bratby.
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I love it when the two worlds of music kiss, rather than collide.

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