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My name is Clara Sanabras I'm originally from Barcelona, now a Londoner. I sing and play ukelele with my band The Real Lowdown, a bunch of ridiculously talented people who happen to be some of the finest jazz musicians in London. In the past I have travelled all around the world performing a wide range of music from medieval & world to Stockhausen, with the Natacha Atlas Acoustic Band and others such as The Harp Consort, Theatre of Voices, Charivari Agréable, Dufay Collective. With these artists I've recorded for Harmonia Mundi USA, Signum Records & Zenobia and I released a solo album of Celtic folksongs for Linn Records a little while ago called The New Irish Girl. Occasionally I also work in Theatre (mainly at the National Theatre & the Globe) and was featured in the Merchant of Venice "The Movie" by director Michael Radford, and in the soundtrack with music by Jocelyn Pook AND I got to be in the same room as Al Pacino for a glorious couple of hours! I'm now writing and performing my own music and uncontrollably expanding my collection of unusual stringed instruments - charango, ukelele, baroque guitar, cuatro, cavaquinho and other wonderful sound machines which I can't even name yet, because I don't know what they are. I love them all equally. I also love producer and composer Harvey Brough with whom I teamed up to record my latest musical offering, an album of songs from here and there, some remembered from my childhood, some from favourite old films, some original. It's called Clara & The Real Lowdown, it's on the Smudged Discs label, and you'll soon be able to buy it online and hopefully get it in the shops too.
