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New CD: The Look of Love (The Music of Burt Bacharach)

“Joyce’s angelic voice holds a tranquil, ethereal quality that wafts upward with a lighter-than-air mystique…”

– Audio Producer David Chesky says, “Valerie has a great feel for the music and has one of the most unique singing voices I have ever heard.”

Valerie Joyce has been performing as a musician on the Seattle music scene since 1994. Born in Japan to an American father and Japanese mother, she was exposed to classical music through her mother’s piano playing and extensive record collection. After college, she moved to Seattle where she regularly appears with a variety of jazz ensembles.

“The Look of Love” is Valerie Joyce’s much anticipated follow-up to her Chesky debut, featuring elegantly chic original arrangements of the classic pieces in Burt Bacharach & Hal David’s catalogue.

Valerie Joyce on the cover of Earshot Jazz Magazine

Valerie Joyce is featured on the cover of the September 2006 issue of Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Magazine.

Valerie Joyce possesses so wonderfully idiosyncratic a voice that one cannot help but stop and marvel. What is impressive is not just the striking acoustic quality of it, but the character she builds into it, to create expression that can be both disarmingly vulnerable and arrestingly deeply hued …

Joyce delivers all the numbers with emotional nuance … with maturity… She manages to convey both a sense of discovering lyrics and the resonance of songs, as if for the first time, and a knowing, deeply felt and considered expression of word and music.

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