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| Boily during a recent performance. |
Chanteuse Deborah Boily is alive and well and living nearby.
She has also, however, been performing internationally as well as working with a music scholar on more accurate translations of some music she particularly enjoys presenting.
Starting in a few days, Boily will perform here in a new celebration of Jacques Brel material. The cabaret concert, called “Seasons in the Sun,” runs July 10-Aug. 1 at Ovations, 2536 Times Blvd. The show is like a sequel expanding upon the well-known show “Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.”
For followers of the late Belgian singer-songwriter Brel, Boily’s show sheds new light on Brel’s standards and presents other, lesser known songs from his vast repertoire. People might be familiar with them but not realize Brel wrote them, she said. That includes the title song, popularized by Terry Jack.
A performer who also teaches voice and has recorded several CDs, Boily has been working in the cabaret world for 20 years. In her French cabaret shows, she also performs songs of Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and others.
Boily, of West University Place, also has created and presented one woman shows in major cities in the U.S. and abroad.
For the upcoming program, she worked with noted Brel scholar and translator Arnold Johnston because many of the translations of his more familiar songs “are not saying what (Brel) said at all.”
Boily said the work of Brel resonates with her. The lyrics and melodies come from “a deep place” and convey “the music of life and love (lost),” she said.
The passion and compassion of his music and lyrics are well-conveyed in the intimacy of cabaret venues, she said.
Given that affinity, and as an actress and singer, Boily likes to know what the sentences she sings really are saying to properly communicate them in concert.
Raised in New Orleans in a home full of music, Boily’s first love has always been musical theater, she said. In cabaret, meanwhile, she discovered a way to “be 18 to 20 people in the course of a concert.”
For Boily, performing with her heart and soul is “the best way I know to tell people who I am.”
For information, visit www.deborahboily.com.
She has also, however, been performing internationally as well as working with a music scholar on more accurate translations of some music she particularly enjoys presenting.
Starting in a few days, Boily will perform here in a new celebration of Jacques Brel material. The cabaret concert, called “Seasons in the Sun,” runs July 10-Aug. 1 at Ovations, 2536 Times Blvd. The show is like a sequel expanding upon the well-known show “Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.”
For followers of the late Belgian singer-songwriter Brel, Boily’s show sheds new light on Brel’s standards and presents other, lesser known songs from his vast repertoire. People might be familiar with them but not realize Brel wrote them, she said. That includes the title song, popularized by Terry Jack.
A performer who also teaches voice and has recorded several CDs, Boily has been working in the cabaret world for 20 years. In her French cabaret shows, she also performs songs of Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and others.
Boily, of West University Place, also has created and presented one woman shows in major cities in the U.S. and abroad.
For the upcoming program, she worked with noted Brel scholar and translator Arnold Johnston because many of the translations of his more familiar songs “are not saying what (Brel) said at all.”
Boily said the work of Brel resonates with her. The lyrics and melodies come from “a deep place” and convey “the music of life and love (lost),” she said.
The passion and compassion of his music and lyrics are well-conveyed in the intimacy of cabaret venues, she said.
Given that affinity, and as an actress and singer, Boily likes to know what the sentences she sings really are saying to properly communicate them in concert.
Raised in New Orleans in a home full of music, Boily’s first love has always been musical theater, she said. In cabaret, meanwhile, she discovered a way to “be 18 to 20 people in the course of a concert.”
For Boily, performing with her heart and soul is “the best way I know to tell people who I am.”
For information, visit www.deborahboily.com.
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