I say here, loud and clear, that Tricia Evy is a great jazz voice… And as she proves with the release of “Usawa“, she is also a great voice of the biguine.
But!
To reduce her to a formidable vocal organ, as beautiful and talented as it may be, would be simplistic.
It is the main criterion at the TV show “The Voice”, isn’t it?
As the other night, Leo Rondon, an illustrious and prodigious Venezuelan cuatrist, told me, “Tricia has an incredible musicality in her”. A kind of 6th musical sense. Do you see what I’m talking about ?
It is clear: the timbre, the softness, the scat, the whispers, the hoarse which evokes great evenings with Louis Armstong. Everything is there: perfect technique, sense of the show, generosity, humor. A wonderful transmitter of emotions.
But Tricia has so many other qualities that I discover at each of our meetings, during a telephone conversation, during a concert in which she sings Brassens as no one else (and believe me, I am a deep connoisseur of Georges Brassens) .
She has melodies to sing and so many ideas to express; so many battles to fight with a deep conscience, live and clear.
She is not only a great singer, but a whole person engaged, which is not the same thing. The women condition, the blacks condition still today, the slavery, not so far away, our society, our planet, but also literature, the life nuggets, the reasons to laugh and to share together …
At this occasion, do listen to the interview she gave to Couleurs jazz (in French)
