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Fran Clark
Her professional singing career has been spent performing live on stage both at home and abroad. She has also shown her quality and technique in studio session work for industry producers, writers and artists including Matt Bianco and appears on commercial recordings with Oliver Cheatham (Be Thankful For What You’ve Got) and Adonte (Dreams).
Her debut album “To Fly” is an eclectic collection of 11 original compositions with modern song structures placed over chord progressions and rhythms typically found in jazz, sometimes adding a Latin feel or soul groove. All of this complemented by a smooth, rich voice whose simple clarity aptly conveys true emotions and real life experiences.
Her second album "Beautiful People" was released in 2014 and forms the basis of the musical direction that Fran is heading in. New material is in the pipeline.
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With a pleasingly unaffected, natural-sounding delivery and a considerable talent for writing original songs ranging from soulful ballads and lightly funky shuffles to the odd latin-inflected piece or relatively conventional standard-influenced material, Fran Clark has made an auspicious debut recording with "To Fly".
The aforementioned range of her material is what immediately impresses. Clark, a Londoner from Ladbroke Grove, grew up exposed to everyone from Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker and Bob Marley to Nat King Cole and the works of Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart, and it shows, but this eclecticism is entirely unforced, enabling her to express straightforward heart-on-sleeve emotion one minute ('Amazing') and emulate the Great American Songbook's penchant for 'list' songs the next ('A Picture of You', 'Goodbye') without any undue abruptness of transition.
Primary Instrument
Vocals
Location
Bristol
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson