A message posted by Soesja Citroen:
DON'T CRY BABY
Line-up :
Soesja Citroen - vocals
Berend van den Berg - pian
Ruud Ouwehand - bass
New release by Challenge Jazz Records of Soesja's 3rd CD as singer-songwriter
'Don't cry Baby' CHR 70127, with 16 new songs.
Soesja starts a new tour for 2006/07.
Penguin Guide writers Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the maximum of 4 * and wrote in 2005 about Citroen:
- Leading singer on the Dutch scene.
- This is a hugely exciting album, worthy of the widest notice.
- CD, which carries off its bruised romanticism with great conviction.
- The title song Song for Ma is magnificent.
- Time she was better known outside her native country.
Bruce Crowther reviewed in 2004 the CD Soesja Sings Citroen:
Soesja Citroen, a strikingly good singer from The Netherlands. She is also a very good songwriter as is demonstrated on this set as Soesja presents fifteen of her own love songs , all of which are melodically pleasing and have intelligent lyrics. Soesja's sound is mature and assured and the interplay with the clarinet and alto saxophone of Michael Moore is delightful.
David Lewis wrote in CADENCE:
The atmospheric ballad "Place of Silence" is a superb song that shows why she deserves recognition as a composer.
Marcela Breton wrote in JAZZ TIMES:
Dutch vocalist and songwriter Citroen shows herself a formidable composer.
Patricia Myers wrote also in JAZZ TIMES:
She's absolutely sensational and I hope she arrives on our side of the Atlantic very soon.
The German jazzmagazine JazzPodium called Soesja an European Top Jazzsinger.
Alex Henderson wrote in the All Music Guide:
The thoughtful nature of her English lyrics on her originals seems all the more impressive when you take into account that English is not her native language.
Read more in the bio of Soesja Citroen
