On her stunning third recording, Obsession, to be released by Motéma Music on August 11, vocalist Tessa Souter (soo-ter), born of Trinidadian and English parents, presents a multicultural banquet, that reflects her own conjoined African, Indian, Caribbean, and English bloodlines, as well as her American present. Experiencing Souter, you will hear “traces of Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae in her phrasing, and Julie London and Peggy Lee in her delicate breathing”; you will be treated to “a captivating voice” (Swing Journal Magazine, on Souter’s sophomore release Nights of Key Largo). Souter delivers every word with a “crystal clear voice and diamond cut phrasing”- The Philadelphia Inquirer.  From the opening notes of Obsession she displays the beautiful “ability to see the shape of a tune so the words seem to come from her soul” – All About Jazz New York.

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