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Dafni Dafni (2004)
Dafni is an acoustic pop/rock singer, songwriter and guitarist from Los Angeles who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in chemistry. This multi-talented and multi-faceted artist has been appearing in and around Los Angeles for the past six years. According to Suzanne Glass of Indie-Music.com, "Dafni has a rich and expressive voice, with considerable flexibility and a chic modern hipness."\n\nAfter a four-year-old Dafni heard Judy Garland sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz she knew she wanted to grow up to become a singer. At school Dafni played the French horn, electric bass, piano, organ, sang in the school choir and even played the mellophone in her high school marching band. With several musical achievements and awards under her belt, Dafni's heart was set on going to music school, but parental pressure led her to double major in psychology and chemistry. The next time she picked up a guitar was during her graduate work in organic chemistry at UCLA and rediscovered her love of music. After working in the pharmacology department at UCLA for two years, Dafni is about to take the plunge and leave the world of chemistry behind to become a full-time musician.\n\nDafni's debut CD, Red, was released in March 2004, after six months of recording part-time in her West LA home using ProTools Free software. Although this was not her first experience with recording (her four-song demo, Dreamland, was released in 2001), Red represents her first serious attempt at producing her own work. The twelve songs on the record reflect Dafni's melodic acoustic-pop style. The album includes the first song she ever wrote on guitar -- a country ballad entitled "Never make me cry" -- and two songs (the plaintive-but-hopeful piano-based "Red" and a mellophone-containing track, the sprightly "Happy day") written while in the three-piece "folk-punk" band, Stay at Home. With the exception of some percussion and bass, Dafni played all of the instruments on the record, an impressive assortment that includes acoustic guitar, piano and synths, bass, horn, and all of the vocals. Red has received airplay throughout the country, from New Jersey to Alaska, and has even jumped the pond to Brisbane, Australia!\n\nAside from balancing her current full-time job as a chemist and her increasingly hectic schedule as an artist, Dafni has been working towards putting together a band of her own. Last summer she began performing live with pianist Craig Bender who joined her for part of her first mini-California tour. Their most recent shows have been at Twiggs Coffeehouse (San Diego), CK Cafe (Claremont), the Cinema Bar (Culver City) and the Westwood Brewing Company (Westwood), as well as regular appearances at the West LA, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades Farmers markets on Sunday mornings.\n\nSuzanne Glass of Indie-Music.com states that "[Dafni] blends rhythmic acoustic guitar, like [Ani] DiFranco, with a smooth full vocal that slides and exudes attitude, like [Billie] Holiday." Dafni is still in the early stages of her career, but if her recent success with Red, the collaboration with Craig Bender, and her busy touring schedule are any indication, Dafni has a promising future ahead of her.\n\nContact Dafni: (310) 922-0661 / dafni(at)dafni.us / www.dafni.us
This folk cd contains 12 tracks and runs 44min 51sec.
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