A “live” recording saluting the composers and songs that have stood the test of time since the ’20’s and several that will be called “standards” of tomorrow…
Featuring Michael Douglas Jones as Musical Director and Parisian Jazz pianist Jerome Kaslin as special guest.
— Mark Shenton, The Stage, London“she has an effortlessly floating voice that cuts to the meaning of the song. But most of all, it is her gorgeous respect and palpable love of this material that communicates itself so vivaciously in the same way… she’s certainly a singer I’d like to hear again and again.”
— Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle“After engagements in New York, London and Paris, Boily is the very model of a modern chanteuse. She is in fine voice, singing with range, power and rich feeling.”
— Lisa Martland, The Stage, London“There is no denying the quality of her voice or the standard of her musical taste. One thing she has in abundance is talent!”
— Time Out, New York“Deborah possesses a distinctive voice; her singing approach is somehow both theatrical and intimate.”
— Cabaret Scenes, New York and London“One of the greatest Cabaret voices on either side of the Atlantic.”
— CBC Radio, Edmonton“A voice that would send shivers up the Arc de Triomphe.”
— Backstage, New York“Deborah Boily is diminutive but it’s this singer’s pipes and what she does with them that leaves one with the vague feeling of having just come from one of Paris’ smoke filled cabarets. She is able to bring a particular poignancy and immediacy to lyrics.”
Deborah Boily began her professional career at the Williamstown Theater Festival in l974 and has been working as an actress and singer ever since playing lead roles in Blood Brothers, A New Brain, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and…