Lily Frost

来自加拿大的女歌手Lily Frost, 早在1989年便开始了她的音乐生涯,可惜这一路并不平坦. 从加拿大的音乐重地Montreal到埃及的Cairo,再回到Vancouver,最终落脚在Toronto的她,曾组过以翻唱老歌为主的乐队The Sheiks, 也试过在异国的油轮上以驻场歌手为职业.直到1992年,和朋友Minstrel Jorge Diaz组成了乐队The Colorifics, Frost才算是真正开始了她的创作历程. 之后,不但有大学电台选播The Colorifics的歌曲,乐队还获得了大量现场演出的机会,并在演出的时候出售他们四张自资专辑,销量虽不能算巨大倒也让人欣慰.
到了1998年, Frost决定单飞,并在器材都是借回来的艰难状况下,录制了首张个人专辑. 2001年, 随着在德国,日本等地的发行,Frost的名字渐渐出现在乐评人的文章里,并获得不俗的评价, "Who Am I"一曲更被收录在电影的原声带里. 03年起, Frost又开始了新专辑的录制,这一次,她几乎一手包办了专辑的所有创作,终于在04年正式完成.
by Tom Demalon
Singer/songwriter Lily Frost draws on influences of '60s pop, fashion, and art to create her engaging brand of not-easily pigeonholed music. Painfully shy, the introverted Frost spent years expressing herself in her diary entries, gradually setting them to music and putting years of classical piano training to use. By 1989, she was studying jazz and French at Concordia University in Montreal and was performing '20s covers in a local group called the Sheiks. To escape from the Montreal winters, Frost took a job singing on a ship in Cairo, Egypt, performing standards and torch songs seven nights a week, for six months, before returning to Vancouver in 1992 to front the Colorifics, who embraced '50s-style swing and attracted a following along the West Coast. The group scored at college radio when they released one of Frost's compositions, "Soda Pop," but Frost, wanting to pursue more contemporary sounds, released the solo effort Lunamarium, which was re-packaged and re-released when she signed with Nettwerk. Promoting the record, which was well-received by critics, Frost had the opportunity to share the stage with acts that included Coldplay, Cowboy Junkies, and the Dandy Warhols. She also continued to work concurrently with the band Mimosa.