Jazz vocalist Kellylee Evans, caught by the camera in a moment of poignant reflection, during a soul-stirring concert she recently delivered at Laval's Maison des Arts.
(Photo: Martin Alarie)
Jazz vocalist Kellylee Evans delivers unabashed performance
Personalizes concert with plenty of autobiographical content
Sparing hardly anyone in her life the luxury of privacy, Jazz vocalist Kellylee Evans bared her soul and the trials, tribulations, assets and liabilities of family members and the role they played in her life as person and artist, in a moving concert she delivered at Laval’s Maison des Arts in late February.
Birth, childhood, development, maturing, motherhood, loss of loved ones, tragedy, agony, failure, and triumph – all figured prominently in this Thirty-Something artist’s successful attempt to connect her music to life and her soul to the audience, who were left spent but fully satisfied at the end of a memorable experience.
Not a soul was left unmoved at evening’s end of unforgettable art and entertainment, capped off with the singer’s plea for a better world, the words and music coming from the depths of her being as she bid everyone au revoir with an inimitable interpretation of John Lennon’s seminally evocative Imagine.
It was an appropriate encore and fitting conclusion to an eclectic performance from a consummate artist who gave of herself freely and from the heart, covering a wide range of emotions from the tragic to the ecstatic, all made unique in inspirational provocative nuances that drew the audience into the singer’s world through funk, blues, and jazz – a liberating invitation to shed the shackles of past tragedies and embrace the freedom of the future.
“I’m free, I’ll always be free,” she pointedly concluded, in the words of life-long hero Nelson Mandela, for herself and for others.
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(Photo: Martin Alarie)
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