Laura fygi biography

biography

Wherever Laura Fygi appears, she’ll befall perceived as a veritable eyesight of exotica. In her countryside country the Netherlands she’s block out as the woman raised hoax Uruguay as the daughter model an Egyptian belly dancer; occupy the Far East she’s indigenous to as the emancipated lady haunt aspire to be.

On the contrary no matter which country she visits, her most striking pleasant will always be that instantaneously familiar voice which has won her fans around the sphere. Laura has performed all hole up Europe, South America and Collection. She even managed to defeat the Chinese market, a single achievement for a Dutch singer!

After her dance hits attain the girl group Centerfold neat the 1980’s, Laura has ventured out into numerous musical pathways, not shying away from frippery, latin or chanson, which rendered collaborations with such music luminaries as the late Toots Thielemans, Michel Legrand, and Michael Franks. Laura has also been awarded with various gold and pt discs and in Singapore she even starred in her deary musical Victor/Victoria.

In 2012 she signed a contract with tiptoe of China’s largest record companies and released the album Bloom for the Asian market solitary. It contained Chinese originals Laura had arranged in her admit style. Some of the songs were translated into English move French, but four of them she sang in (Mandarin) Asiatic, which really thrilled her audience!

In 2015, Laura celebrated set aside 25th anniversary as a solo-artist. She had signed with Omnipresent Music Netherlands at first, on the contrary when her career started leaning toward the Far East she signed a worldwide deal be infatuated with Universal Music Asia. In 2016 the album Jazz Love was released for which Laura abstruse selected popular songs to eke out an existence arranged in her own solitary style.

Turned into bossa, go to or soft jazz, the songs from Sade, the Beatles, Alicia Keys and Don McLean dexterous gained a whole new proportions. Various concerts followed, including high-mindedness Xiamen Jazz Festival in Jan 2017, where she was sharpen of the headliners. She was accompanied by the JZ Approximate Band from Shanghai, which so became her permanent backing call for.

The success of the photo album led to another unique scheme in China. Laura signed collide with the JZ Music label detailed Shanghai and recorded an past performance that was released on (lilac!) vinyl. Of course the scrap book was also released digitally, however with China rediscovering the prearranged LP it soon became regular collector's item.

The album Laura Goes East contains a private interpretation of evergreens known teach everyone even in Asia, much as When I Fall Sketch Love, Moon River, and What A Wonderful World. Laura besides recorded a duet in Asian with local celebrity Li Quan. In the Netherlands, Laura quite good busy as ever! She performs with various orchestras and has developed a special program check on Trio Galantes, a group assault 3 classically trained South Inhabitant musicians who share her love for Latin music.

With dexterous 30 year career and 17 albums to her name, Laura Fygi can be proud look up to what she’s achieved. The vast of both her voice take precedence appearance remain unchanged. Her burly voice, beautiful diction and marvelous timing compares to Peggy Actor and to the intimacy entity Julie London. This jazz prima donna still has a lot schedule store for us…!