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Lua Hadar - Power and Grace -- Cabaret and Jazz!
"[Lua]Hadar is a triple threat: comedienne, chanteuse and storyteller...Her smile enchants, as delightful as her stage presence and well-balanced song selection...She has a gracious ease before her audience." -- Tom Kelly, San Francisco Bay Times
Singer Lua Hadar moves from stage to cabaret to jazz club with effervescent ease, switching vocal genres or languages just as easily. A native New Yorker from a musical family, Lua Hadar has performed as an actor and singer all of her life.
Rich Lester of TalkinBroadway.com says Hadar "bends her rich and agile voice around original material, jazz standards and show tunes with power and grace," raves about Hadar's "luscious tone" and adds, "She finds the longing and uncertainty without missing the comedy."
On her 2006 CD, It's About Time, Hadar finds her way around both jazz standards and show tunes with power and grace, taking her listeners on a terrific ride. Her voice is earthy, soulful, pure and rich, while her fine comic timing and sense of humor shine through on a generous handful of tunes.
For her Jazz at Pearl's show, Hadar will be backed by the sharp and swinging Jason Martineau Trio, featuring Martineau on piano, Tony Malfatti on reeds, bassist Mario Suracci and drummer Randy Odell.
Lua Hadar's ability to blend crowd-pleasing theatricality into her lively musical performances is not surprising, for she's studied both music and theater.
After graduating with a B.A. summa cum laude in Theatre Performance, Hadar attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and The Dalcroze School of Music in Manhattan. She did the rounds as a New York actress while she waited tables at the renowned Storyville Jazz Club, where she heard all the jazz greats of the time (she remembers, with a thrill, serving a double cognac to Sarah Vaughn).
As a young actress, Hadar appeared Off-Broadway and was selected to audition both for film director Milos Forman (for âHairâ) and Metropolitan Opera coach, Joan Dornemann. This led to years of vocal training and a series of wacky day jobs, ranging from demonstrating The Cuisinart Food Processor in Bloomingdaleâs to delivering singing telegrams, dressed as a gorilla in a tux.
Luaâs love for languages and travel then led to a 5-year residency in Italy with an Italian theater company, where she played hundreds of performances on tour in Spain, Switzerland and all over Italy. There she developed her already loony comedy style and also learned to direct, produce and tour manage - in Italian. Upon returning to the States, Lua formed her own company, New Performance Group, and began producing original material and cabaret, while delivering instruction in the performing arts and maintaining international exchange with her Italian colleagues.
In San Francisco, in 2001, Hadar co-founded the girl trio The Kitchenettes. She's recorded three CDâs, most recently her solo CD, Itâs about Time. In addition to several shows, event series and master classe
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LocationJazz at Pearl's
256 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States
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