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Soula Sings

Nelson Malavenda | Roswell, Georgia United States | 08/14/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Several Greek female artists became popular in the United States, purveyors of Greek cafe music, very plaintive, very beautiful to hear. Soula was not one of them. So I have always been amazed because she is far and away the best of interpretors of Greek composers of what I call cafe music of the 1960s, so beautiful to hear, and for all of us who ever fell in love, (isn't that everyone?) the most lyrical and richly soft voice of interpretation that you can imagine. I never knew of Soula Birbili - a Greek friend loaned me her records thirty years ago, and I lucked out and got to purchase them. You follow her voice and wait for one off balance note, one moment of flawed communication, and it never happens. She just sails away and takes your heart with her. Try it, if you're a romantic with a bit of Latin blood, you gonna like it!"

Incredible--Greek Poetry put to music

Nelson Malavenda | 04/02/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This work by Mikis Theodorakis was, and is, ground-breaking. Theodorakis, who is Greece's greatest living composer, set these poems to music in order to make modern Greek poetry accesible to the Greek people and to international audiences. The CD comes with the poetry in Greek and translated into English. This is perfect for any Greek, who misses his homeland, or anyone Greek in spirit!"

Beautiful sound of the aegean

Nelson Malavenda | 07/12/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"the music is soothing. the singer has a great voice. the music is romantic in mood"