SpudShow 174 - Melissa Forbes
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\nArtist - Melissa Forbes
\nTrack 1 - Thinking You Over
Track 2 - Still
Track 3 - Blackheart Blues
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\nAustralian-based singer/songwriter Melissa Forbes has officially closed the book on her former career as a commercial lawyer with the release of her 2005 debut album \u201cNo More Mondays?. Released on her own label Kitten Kong Records, "No More Mondays" primarily focuses on Melissa\u2019s original material but also covers artists as diverse as D'Angelo, Metallica and Michael Jackson. Melissa describes her music as "jazzy blue-eyed soul" and cites such diverse influences as Prince, Diana Krall, Sade, Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan and Tina Arena.
\nSo how does a commercial lawyer come to make a full-length album of vintage-sounding soul-jazz? \u201cI called the album \u2018No More Mondays\u2019 because it\u2019s been a huge transition for me to move from the rigours of a 9-to-5 job to working in the music industry. Not only has it been a change of career but a change of attitude \u2013 I\u2019m going to follow my heart from now on,? explains Melissa. \u201cI\u2019ve long dreamed of making an album but this wasn\u2019t going to happen while I was working full-time as a lawyer. I ended up going to the Queensland Conservatorium of Music for four years where I studied jazz and contemporary voice while I continued to do legal work part-time. That got me on the right track.?
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