Sioux and Gypsy blood run through Clara Sanabras’ veins. She was born in France, raised in Barcelona, and has grown, after a lengthy tenure in the metropolis, into a Londoner. Her music is as varied as that background suggests. Carried by the power of her virtuosic voice, this psychedelic- folk songstress creates an unmistakable bluesy sound with a continental urban twist.
With her new album The Emblem, Clara sums up her chief preoccupations as an artist: the juxtaposition of ideas and influences in life, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that fit together perfectly, assembled to produce a complete picture, an emblem.
The result is an eloquent, diverse and unquestionable musical tableau, consisting of ten original songs and a folksong, intended for the modern listener.
In an impressive back catalogue of recordings, theatre and screen credits, Clara Sanabras has appeared at many international festivals, including Glastonbury 2011, The London Jazz Festival and Womad, and mingled with artists from all disciplines: she collaborated with Natacha Atlas, Nizlopi’s frontman Luke Concannon, she appears on screen alongside Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice movie (Mike Radford 2004), on radio with Bill Nighy in the BBC Radio 3 play The Don, on stage with director Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre and in concert under the guidance of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the forefather of electronica. She is also the featured singer in the forthcoming Hollywood movie Cristiada about the Mexican Cristeros War, with music by James Horner (Titanic), www.cristiadafilm.com
