Updated: July 12, 2023
Raised to the sounds of Ella, Billie, Frank and Peggy Lee singing the Great American Songbook, the Berlin born Parisian vocalist Susanna Bartilla always knew she would be a jazz singer.
She inherited an unconditional love for the genre from her father, a crooner and sax player, who regularly took her out to see live music from an early age on, and it has often been said that she owes her sure sense of timing and swing to her gypsy grandfather.
All through her childhood she sang the alto voice in a choir and after moving to Paris aged 18, quite naturally studied to be an opera singer. After spending some years touring and recording with a professional vocal baroque group and gaining valuable stage experience, she found her way back to her roots and studied vocal jazz at renowned EDIM Jazz school and with some of the best French and American vocalists.
Since then, audiences in clubs and festivals have been enjoying Susanna’s interpretations of the most beautiful standards of all times, the ones that have the right words to tell the real life stories we can all relate to, in 32 bars.
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Susanna Bartilla: The Look Of Love: Songs Of The Sixties
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by Bruce Lindsay
Sub-titled Songs Of The Sixties, vocalist Susanna Bartilla's The Look Of Love presents her interpretations of ten numbers from that decade--from standards such as Till There Was You" to pop hits like There's A Kind Of Hush." It's a classic collection, distinguished by some fine interpretations and some surprising song choices. The Look Of Love follows Bartilla's tribute to Peggy Lee, I Love Lee (Self Produced, 2012), which she recorded in France. Bartilla is now back in Germany, ...
read moreSusanna Bartilla: I Love Lee
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by Bruce Lindsay
So which Lee does singer Susanna Bartilla love? Lee Marvin? Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors? Both men would be intriguing subjects for a tribute album, but of course the answer lies elsewhere. It's there in tiny letters on the cover of I Love Lee, but it's even more obvious from the opening bars of Kansas Joe McCoy's Why Don't You Do Right." This is a tribute to the great Peggy Lee. It's a fitting tribute, too, with excellent song ...
read more"She's got style, she's got class, she's got charm ... and she can sing !" (Jazz Hot)