10.12.2011 14.Kislev. 5772 Wajischlach
Unterhaltung:
Austrian singer Simone Kopmajer adds her own spin to a lot of old jazz favorites.
The next installment of this year’s Hot Jazz series features Austrian vocalist Simone Kopmajer who goes by the professional moniker of Simone. The 30-year-old singer says she has always been drawn to the sounds and energies of yesteryear.
“Of course, I grew up with pop music and all the stuff I heard in the 1990s, but it was when I heard the old musical numbers and jazz standards that I felt something connected inside me. I knew that was what I wanted to do – to sing that music.”
There will be plenty of that music in Simone’s program for her seven concerts here, which start tomorrow night at Mercaz Habama in Ganei Tikva and continues in other venues throughout the country (see details below)….