Laura Fygi
Laura Fygi ( born August 27, 1955 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch jazz - pop singer and.
Life and work
The daughter of a Dutch father, who was manager at Philips, and an Egyptian mother ( a belly dancer as spread their record company does ) she spent her first eight years in South America, Montevideo in Uruguay, where the family in the late 1960s after the death her father returned back to Holland. In addition to Spanish French is their second mother tongue, as they thus spake as a child with her mother and had a French governess.
Even at school, she studied piano and played in theater performances. After graduating, she toured with a band Limbo through the Netherlands, where they caught the attention of producers and Debois of keys which she first wanted to fill in a multicultural band Terra. 1984 to 1991 she was member of the popular in the Netherlands and also in Europe and Japan girl band centerfold. A photo of a band member Fygi on the Dutch Playboy cover gave her extra attention over the series of the band's hits from 1987 to 1991 also.
After the dissolution in 1991 (one of the three band members died ) she wanted to be married now, actually retire. Nevertheless, with the remaining centerfolds colleague, she founded the short-lived band called The Backlot, but brought out only one album with Mercury, because Fygi had already been proposed by Mercury Records a solo career after she had convinced her manager of her passion for jazz. Their first album was attributable mainly to jazz Introducing Laura Fygi. Then she was accompanied by Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine and produced by bassist Ruud Jacobs. It won the 1991 in the Netherlands, the Edison Price. Meanwhile, she has released more albums and gained a reputation as an outstanding jazz performer. According to her cosmopolitan background, they can thereby like to feel Latin American influences. It changes on their plates but also effortlessly into the pop genre ( they had a hit with the interpretation of Dream a Little Dream). Fygi touring a lot in jazz clubs in the Netherlands and entered, for example, the North Sea Jazz Festival. Since it is very popular in the Far East, she also tours regularly twice a year there. A new program entitled The Best Is Yet To Come Laura Fygi occurs with complete Big Band on Instrumentation and interpreted with the Jack Million Band Title from the Great American Songbook in arrangements of the Dutch arranger Johan Plomp.
As a vocal role models they are to Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Gilbert Becaud, Charles Aznavour and Al Jarreau.
Discography
- Introducing Laura Fygi 1991 ( with Toots Thielemans )
- Bewitched 1992 ( with Philip Catherine, Toots Thielemans, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry )
- The Lady Wants to Know 1994
- Turn Out the Lamplight 1995
- Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel Legrand 1997 ( from the North Sea Jazz Festival)
- Live 1998 ( from the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam)
- The Latin Touch 2000 ( she sings Spanish)
- Change in 2001
- The Very Best Time of Year 2004 ( Christmas Album)
- Rendez -vous 2007 ( French repertoire, inspired by the Hot Club de France, including Django Reinhardt Nuages )
- The Best Is Yet to Come in 2011