Sophie Zelmani Sophie Zelmani Rarlab
Table o contents.Early an personal life Born in the suburbs o Stockholm in 1972, Zelmani's faither bought the faimily a guitar when Zelmani wis 14. Despite no professional muisic trainin, Zelmani became a sangwriter an recordit some sangs at a local studio. Efter she mailed the demos tae three record companies, Zelmani wis affered a record deal bi Swaden.She is marriet an haes ane dochter wi her husband.Career Sophie Zelmani recordit her debut, eponymous album wi Sony in 1995. The album wis producit an arrangit bi Lars Halapi an co-producit bi Patrik Sventelius, who an aw played guitar. She describit the process o makkin the album: 'In the beginning Lars and I spent a few months in the studio.
We had fun and then picked the musicians. We recorded in two weeks but the whole thing took half a year.' Bi 1997, Zelmani's debut album haed sauld 200,000 copies in Europe an Asie Pacific, afore muivin tae the US mercat, distributit bi. Zelmani said, 'I had no ambitions to go abroad.
I knew I wanted to make a record. That's all I wanted.' Columbia's mercatin campaign includit CD sampler giveaways, consumer press, an rotation on flichts atween Scandinavie an the US.Zelmani haes continued tae record albums while makkin anerlie a sma nummer o public appearances due tae shyness.
She wan a best newcomer awaird in Swaden's in 1996. Discography YearAlbumZelmani haes an aw contributit muisic tae the TV series an. Her cover o 's 'Most Of The Time' appears on the soondtrack tae.Her sang 'Stand By' appeared in the film (1996). Her sang 'Always You' appeared in the film (1997).Zelmani's 'Going Home' frae Sing and Dance wis covered in Mandarin Cheenese as 'Passenger' bi on.References. ↑ Scott, Matthew (11 February 2007). 'Sophie Zelmani - Memory Loves You'. South China Morning Post (retrieved from Factiva).
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Sophie Zelmani I Can't Change
The story of Swedish Singer/Songwriter Sophie Zelmani could have been written in a novel. Her father bought her family a guitar when she was fourteen; she started writing songs after her father died soon after that, then after recording some demos in a studio she was working as the tea-girl for she sent them to some record labels and got signed to Sony Music Sweden with them. It’s the kind of rise that most singer-songwriters would commit ritual sacrifice for but Zelmani never needed anything other than her songs and her unmistakeable voice.
It’s almost odd how she got off to such seemingly immediate commercial success after that. Her songs are stark, moving and memorable but their lyrical focus as well as her conversational singing voice (that borders on spoken word from time to time) lends themselves to a live atmosphere incredibly well. It’s a pretty riveting site, and the feeling of being in a packed auditorium, each and very soul there hushed into awed silence to keep up with what she’s saying is one that isn’t going to be matched any time soon.
Sophie Zelmani Album
Truly lyrical female songwriters are a rarely picked up and promoted on a scale like this, if we can support women like Zelmani by seeing her and artists like her live as much as we can then we’ll have more incredible music in the world, and that can only be a good thing. Make Zelmani your first port of call though, you will not regret it!