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Lyambiko: Shades of Delight

Read "Shades of Delight" reviewed by Ken Hohman


With her new release Shades Of Delight, African-German vocalist Lyambiko reaches for her share of the spotlight in the contemporary jazz diva category. While her debut disc Out Of This Mood successfully capitalized on her good looks and exotic moniker, Shades Of Delight makes the case that she could be a flash-in-the-pan for the Nagel Heyer label. Through a mix of popular jazz standards and not-so-standard African traditional songs, Lyambiko's quirky mezzo-soprano strains for feeling but ends up sounding like ...

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Lyambiko: Out of This Mood

Read "Out of This Mood" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Not especially active in recording vocalists, German label Nagel Heyer has made a fortuitous exception by hosting vocalist Lyambiko's first album. Definitely out of the cool school, this young German performer sings this play list of mostly standards in slightly accented English which helps to make her delivery even more engaging. Possessing an especially soothing tone, good phrasing instincts, a slight vibrato used judiciously, she shows her obvious like of and respect for classics written by Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Lyambiko Sings...

Sony Music
2012

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Saffronia

Sony BMG Music Entertainment
2008

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Inner Sense

Sony Music
2007

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Lyambiko

Sony Music
2005

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Shades Of Delight

Unknown label
2003

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