Sophie Dunér is a Swedish singer and composer with a past in the United States and Spain. She covers the styles of jazz, world and contemporary classical music. In 2006 Sophie Dunér released her latest CD " The Rain in Spain " with the american jazz label C.I.M.P in NY,USA with musicians Rory Stuart,Matt Pennman & Kahlil Kwame Bell. She has collaborated with musicians and groups such as Guillermo Klein & The Big Van, Fernando Tarrés & Arida Conta Group, Aaron Goldberg Trio,Sten Höstfält, Paul Clarvis, Martin France, AugustÃn Gerenu, Victor Merlo, Manuel Ceide,Francis Schwartz and Gilad Atzmon. etc, having performed and toured all over the world.For contact inquires in Canada & North America: Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management MGAM
1153 Queen St W., Suite 201 Toronto, ON. Canada M6J 1J4 tel: 416.410.8224 fax: 416.604.5330 cell: 416.846.6426 [email protected] http://www.mgam.comFor contact inquires in England: David Parker [email protected] contact inquires in Sweden: August Dunér [email protected] Mobile: +46-731 80 14 22
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Vittorio Lo Conte, All about Jazz - Italia"The answear to C.I.M.P and Bob Rusch, to Blue Note and Norah Jones is called Sophie Dunér. Here comes to C.I.M.P a special personality with her own musical vision beyound the typical genre........Sophie Dunér is a very original singer and a strong composer that writes lyrics that are everything but trivial ......."Michael Coyle, Cadence Magazine".....her sensibility and smarts are what make her songs—and they contribute crucially to making this record .Duner behaves according to the familiar credos of Modern Art...."David Kane, Cadence Magazine"Textually, her occasionally cryptic lyrics explore the vagaries of male-female relationships with a wryness, authenticity, and humor that springs from real life experience—no starry eyed romanticism here. Rain in Spain is good music, fine singing, and interesting writing ably performed by four excellent musicians. Let’s hear more from Sophie and company."Peter Bickel, Nordische Musik"As unusual the label and its recording technique is, as unusual is the Swedish singer Sophie Dunér, she is much more than just a ( jazz ) singer. With her incredible width, the possibilities of her voice and loads of imagination, she creates her own song universe between jazz, chanson, folk and fast poetry slam songs and could create an addiction. And with her love for Duke Ellington, that surely would sharpen his ears if he had heard her version of â€Caravanâ€, â€Lush Life†etc"Derek Taylor - Dusted Magazine 2006"Sophie Dunér comes up with something personal and persuasive to say. I hear some of Joan Armatrading in her warm, folksy way of phrasing a lyric and lacing it with falsetto trills. There’s a little Anita O’Day in there too, with a sassy insouciance sharpening some of her turns of verse.Dunér’s songsmithing is suitably idiosyncratic with imagery that leaves much to the imagination. “Jack the Ripper†finds her dealing in Yma Sumac-evocative octave leaps. The follow-up “Lonely Woman†copped from the Horace Silver songbook not Coleman, reminds me of the mellower side of Patty Waters mixed with Nina Simone."CIMP, Bob Rusch - CD RELEASE - Redwood,NY 2005
" Sophie Dunér is both a personal and original singer and a composer of substance.She is a mature, seasoned and original voice. In addition, she has written over half of the tunes for this stunning release, originals as notable as the standards she chose to accompany them. This is a memorable vocalist, composer/lyricist, and presentation".Ingvar Loco Nordin, SONOLOCO RECORD REVIEWS"When it comes to Sophie’s achievements they are marvelous. Her texts are fascinating, head-on, humorous, venomous, intelligent, funny and with that dark, serious strike that raises them out of the present,to a common ground without genres or brands, where the songs live their own life and stand their ground. Her melodies are almost all of the time plain hit material, and her singing, not least, is wonderful, brilliant, sexy and melancholy – and her phrasing is out of this world!".
