Interview– Kyra Gordon

Kyra Gordon Bio 

Kyra Gordon has belted out Janis Joplin hits in a one-woman show, earned a conservatory degree  interpreting jazz standards, and spent several years in the improvisational hip-hop group The  Freeze, but it was the long road she traveled wending from Hollywood to New Orleans to a rural  North Carolina commune to Paris that fueled her remarkable debut album Soul of a Showgirl. The  Berkeley vocalist, songwriter and pianistʼs music flows from the vicissitudes of her footloose life, glinting with insights sheʼs gleaned along the way. Possessing a rich, multi-hued voice thatʼs  equally attuned to wry humor, headlong passion, bountiful gratitude and abject longing, Soul of  a Showgirl is Gordonʼs first album featuring her original material, and it introduces a songwriter  with an outsized gift for setting emotionally incisive lyrics to beguiling melodic hooks.

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