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Lili Añel (''nee'' Eulalia Añel) is an American singer-songwriter and performing artist originally from New York City. She was born in El Barrio, Spanish Harlem and raised in the South Bronx. She moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2004, where the local music scene embraced her, along with airplay and guest appearances on NPR station WXPN. She performed in and around Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, Delaware, New Jersey as well as continuing to perform in New York City. Her style is diverse, reflecting her background which is a hybrid. The single "Supposed To Be" from her most recent CD release ''Every Second In Between'' was listed in ''USA Todays "Playlist" September 15, 2009, by Steve Jones. == Beginnings == As a Songwriter, Lili Añel honed her skill in NYC’s Greenwich Village thriving music scene. Alongside peers like Cliff Eberhardt, Carolyn Mas, The Roches and Steve Forbert, to name a few, she successfully showed diversity within her musical ideas and sensibilities, performing both solo or with her band executing her music and voice with amazing power, rhythmically and melodically. Lili and her band opened for legendary acts, Etta James, Taj Mahal, Stuff (featuring the Saturday Night Live Band) and The Persuasions. Lili has appeared across the U.S. and Canada in support of her first album “Laughed Last”, released in 1994. People have often described Lili's music as Joan Armatrading meets Joni Mitchell meets Steely Dan. Lili's music however, is influenced by a great deal of other songwriters and musical styles including Garland Jeffreys, Janis Ian, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Patato Y Totico, Celia Cruz amongst others. Her music reflects her background; born in New York City of Black/Cuban parents she utilizes rhythms primarily as the basis of her songwriting with the traditional Cuban recordings of Orchesta Aragon as well as the drum stylings of Patato Y Totico, known for their incorporation of traditional African drumming with Cuban call-and-response songs (masters of “gua-guanco” and “Rumba”). Lili was accepted into the Leonard Davis Center of Performing Arts at City College of the City University of New York. Lili later studied with legendary jazz singer Shelia Jordan for one year in her vocal performance workshop. Lili lasted under the stress of traditional music training for an additional year. Lili took a leave of absence from CCNY never returning. Instead, she enrolled in Eddie Simon’s “Guitar Study Center”. Only able to afford to pay for one class, she audited as many classes as possible. Gaining the respect from the instructors, who admired her diligence, she was often allowed to participate in class like the students who were fully enrolled. During her time at Guitar Study Center, Lili also began to attend open mics in New York City’s Greenwich Village, and other clubs. She began to get gigs and subsequently put a band together. Lili continued performing, building her following which eventually took her to recording her first CD, Laughed Last in 1994 on Palmetto Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lili Añel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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