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Elaine Lucia - Biography by Scott Yanow Elaine Lucia - Biography by Scott Yanow Elaine Lucia has a beautiful, high and clear voice that is versatile, quite powerful and perfectly fits her swinging style. My goal has always been to be as great a singer as I can and really master my instrument, to soak songs with emotion while singing in a simple and straightforward style. I don t want to sound like anyone but myself. One listen to any of Elaine s three CDs shows that she has already accomplished that goal and is a memorable jazz singer. In 2001, she recorded her debut jazz CD, Elaine Lucia...Sings Jazz and Other Things. I felt that I had arrived at an important musical place, so I simply recorded songs that I loved. On my second CD, A Sonny Day, I followed a specific musical theme, and dedicated the project to my late father, Frank Sonny Lucia. The CD musically depicts a day of the life of my father, starting with I Love the Sunrise and ending with Final Remembrance. It is a very personal project. Elaine Lucia s newest CD, Let s Live Again, is a tribute to the vocal LPs that the George Shearing Quintet of the late 1950s/early 60s recorded with such singers as Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Dakota Staton and Nancy Wilson. On A Sunny Day, I had the same instrumentation as the George Shearing Quintet that beautiful combination of vibes and guitar with the piano, bass and drums. So we just carried that same quintet into the new project. My trio ¬ with pianist Jonathan Alford, bassist Pierre Archain and drummer Alan Hall¬ has been playing and recording with me for over 12 years now. We added Gerry Grosz on vibes when we did A Sonny Day; Gerry really fits in very well with the band and wrote almost all of the arrangements on this new CD. And then I asked Randy Vincent to bring his wonderful, classic guitar sound into the mix. The quintet was the perfect setting for me to record some rare songs like the title track Let s Live Again by Nancy Wilson, Don t Go and Azure-Te by Nat King Cole, and In The Night and I d Love to Make Love To You by Dakota Staton. Elaine Lucia has appeared at nightclubs and festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Reno and Lake Tahoe areas for many years, gathering a solid following among fans and musicians alike. Her growing number of fans look forward to hearing the very appealing Elaine Lucia singing many more times in the future, adding to her already impressive musical legacy.