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Shakura S'Aida's Millennium Blues

Brings fresh stylings to Salle André-Mathieu November 5th

par Benoit LeBlanc
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Article mis en ligne le 3 novembre 2008 à 10:28
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Shaukura S'Aida, one of the great blues singers of the new millennium. Photo:Martin Alarie)

Shakura S'Aida's Millennium Blues

Brings fresh stylings to Salle André-Mathieu November 5th

After a 20-year wait, 20 years of musical comedy and enhancement of her art of the blues, a 20-year love affair with the greats of the 1940s and 1950s, Shakura S'Aida has recorded her first album - Blueprint.

The voice is powerful, oozing with sensuality and maturity. This is the style that earned her the enviable title of R&B>Singer of the Year from Real Blues Magazine, numerous Juno nominations, as well as second place at the Memphis International Blues Challenge.

"I want to prove once and for all that I am a blues singer. It was only logical that I would pay tribute to the music that rocked (the cradle) of my childhood," Shakura explains, from her home in Toronto.

Tribute to the greats

Big Mama Thornton, Big Maybelle, Carla Thomas, Gladys Knight – she discovered them all in a room full of 45s (single, two-sided records, for those of you younger than 40 years of age unfamiliar with the reference) while visiting her grandmother's home.

"I like to think that the Nina Simones and Etta Jameses, who would have been easy for me to emulate if I were looking for simplicity, were themselves influenced by these 'great ladies' of blues."

And that's where the title of the Blueprint album comes from, in fact it is the architectural plan that precedes the construction of a building.

The Blues

For Shakura S'Aida, the Blues are more than just a 'state of soul'. They are the soul itself becoming music. Somewhere in some nightclub where gospel singing was frowned upon. "I came to the blues from gospel. It's neither sad nor glad, it's all of that and a switching of roles at the same time. It's what you feel at the moment."

Accompanied by five musicians, the singer who is much loved and appreciated in France, stops in Laval between two Paris-Toronto flights. "The blues are music of emotion and the French, as well as those I meet in Quebec, are very comfortable with that. I can be myself. No holds barred."

Shakura S'Aida will sing blues of the 1940s and 1950s on Wednesday, November 5, starting at 8:00 pm, at the Maison des arts de Laval (1395 de la Concorde Blvd. West). Information: (450) 667-2040.

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