Kyla Brox Band (UK/CZ)

JAZZ OF FOUR CONTINENTS

Kyla's voice remains a stunning example of the soul singer's art: turning up the heat by degrees, lulling and charming before unleashing emotional catharsis, and blurring the distinction between pleasure and pain like the soul greats of old. Whether fronting the mighty Kyla Brox Band, or harnessing undiluted soul power in a duo with musical and life partner Danny Blomeley, Kyla Brox is without doubt the most authentic UK blues and soul singer of her generation. Born in Lancashire in 1980, she was exposed to the passion of Afro-American music at first-hand from her blues singing father, Victor. She traces her interest in singing from age three, partly from a desire to be closer to her charismatic but distant dad. She was the late product of the marriage between Victor (Caiaphas in the original cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar) and Annette (the 'maid by the fire' in the same), and, unlike her elder sisters, gifted but non-professional singers, she didn't spend her formative years in the back of a touring van under a cloud of cannabis smoke.

Kyla Brox  – voc; Jiří Maršíček – g; Danny Blomeley – b; Tomáš Hobzek – dr.

Admission - presale: seating CZK 400, standing CZK 200, at the door: seating CZK 500, standing CZK 250. There is no need to reserve a seat when purchasing a seating ticket.

Band website: www.kylabrox.com