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Artist
Reah Valente
7+ albums
female vocalistspoppop rockbraziliantstsnbn
about
Some people say the eyes are the window to the soul. But they haven’t heard Reah Valente sing. Brazilian born singer Reah Valente’s voice lets out the light from a strikingly rich – and complex - soul. Her latest CD, “Psychedelic Cinema”, is proof of this. A confluence of intellectual, spiritual, and carnal musings, Reah swaggers her way through one rhythmic vignette to another. Think art rock with a splash of jazz and funk, she’s an indie rocker on an idiosyncratic rampage. Seizing that particular palette of genres, she makes them do what she wants. In the song “Gravity”, an urgent tempo does a chameleon switch, rolling and rocking softly into an un-self conscious sexiness. Her vocals take off into her own personal orbit, a girlish fragrance inhabiting every note. But make no mistake: This artist is always in charge. Reah lures, she pries, she ridicules, invites, taunts and regrets. With the jazzy horns in “Melodrama” and the honky tonk piano energy in “Sober”, she carries the tension and exposition to unexpected, firecracker-like endings. The funny, ravishing “Undress Me…and get to know me better…Let’s set this room on fire”) is upbeat and nonchalant at the same time. So what makes Reah sing? “I always felt it was deliberating…singing is a beautiful way to deliberate”, the multi-lingual artist explains. The back yard served as her first “recording studio”, the scene of her childhood rock-singer stylings. “I remember my father had a large collection of rec
