Lucia Iman is a singer-songwriter and pianist from Sevilla, Spain currently based in Los Angeles. Her music has been
described as pop-noir with a cinematic twist. Collaborating with Grammy-winning producer Malcolm Burn (Bob
Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Jeff Buckley), Lucia's second album Tame the Night was released worldwide in June 2010.
Drawing comparisons to Feist, Fiona Apple and Goldfrapp, Lucia's
distinctive take on pop music has sparked interest in music circles at
home and abroad, earning her a place in the top 100 unsigned artists of
2007 and 2009 by Music Connection Magazine.
Tame the Night was completely funded by the support of 903 of Lucia's
fans through the crowd-funding concept Sellaband, where she raised
$50,000 to finance the album in November of 2008.
With stunning vocal performances at the forefront, the album journeys through 1940's harbors in Eyes to Sea
(complete with Nick Drake-like strings), the quirky in One, Two, Three, and darker tones in the title track Tame
the Night. A stellar group of musicians contributed to the project: drummer Ethan Eubanks (Ivy, Norah Jones),
trumpetist Dan Brantigan (Kaki King), violinist/arranger Kailin Yong and guitarist Mark Axiak.
"I wanted to make an introspective album that established my own sound. A sound that is intimate and visually
evocative, yet accessible to the listeners," Lucia explains.
Taking this music to the live stage, Lucia has teamed up with jazz drummer
Lorca Hart (Freddie Hubbard, Bennie Maupin) and experimental bassist
Joey Maramba (Rickie Lee Jones), forging a sound that emphasizes the
atmosphere of the album and brings the songs to a new dynamic level.
Following her grass-roots approach, Lucia has previously organized tours
performing across the US West Coast and Europe, independently bringing
her music to major cities worldwide.
Her music's cinematic nature has also lent itself to film, being featured in TV shows such as Showtime's The L Word,
and in documentaries including A Day in the Dirt and Sold in America (Montreal Human Rights Film Festival), for
which she wrote the theme song.
Trained in classical piano as a young girl in Madrid's Real Music Conservatory in Spain, Lucia moved with her family
to Los Angeles at sixteen years of age. She studied voice at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts before
returning to Los Angeles to focus on her musical career.
"Tame The Night [is] the sophomore, impressively D.I.Y. album from Lucia Iman… [where] the story is as interesting as the music… An oddly captivating
album." - Direct Current Music.
"Lucia is a disarming performer and intriguing live act thanks to her natural talent… She is someone to keep an eye on." - Music Connection Magazine.
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