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Artist
Rita Chiarelli
12+ albums
bluesfemale vocalistsCanadianguitarcanada
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ABOUT RITA Rita Chiarelli, Canada's most highly acclaimed female roots and blues artist, has just released the soundtrack for her award winning documentary, Music From The Big House, her 9th recording. With a JUNO (a Canadian Grammy) award and 4 subsequent JUNO nominations, she is known across Canada as the "Goddess of the Blues". Chiarelli is a gifted songwriter and an entertaining performer, but it is her soaring 3 octave voice that sets her apart from her peers, inspires awe and often tears in her audiences, and causes critics to gush. " a voice so blue it could make the angels weep"... "a voice that can growl at her demons or soar with the angels, a gift for lyric, an ear for melody and the heart to combine them". The one thing Chiarelli is not; is predictable. Over the past five years she has released Cuore, a recording of traditional Italian folk songs, which won the World Music category at the prestigious Canadian Folk Music Awards; Uptown Goes Downtown Tonight, a highly acclaimed collaboration with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra; and Music From the Big House, a documentary movie filmed in Louisiana, at Angola prison, which premiered in New York and L.A. Her CD Sweet Paradise, heralds a return to Chiarelli's blues roots, and is her first album of all original tunes since 2001's JUNO nominated Breakfast at Midnight. As if creating beautiful music wasn't enough, Rita has entered the film world starring in the critically acclaimed Music From The Big House. She also
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albums
Road Rockets
Breakfast At Midnight
No-One to Blame
Sweet Paradise
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Cuore - The Italian Sessions
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Uptown Goes Downtown - Rita Chiarelli With the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
The Italian Sessions
What a Night - Live!
Music From The Big House
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Road Rockets (Re-Issue)
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Music From The Big House Soundtrack
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Just Gettin' Started