Anne
Kerry Ford: America’s Cabaret Sweetheart!
By Maximillien de Lafayette , Syndicated Columnist
Anne Kerry Ford: A sparkling soprano, a superb actress,
leading star of America’s best theatrical plays and musicals, a Broadway
stage sensation with wit, humor and philosophical depth, American Cabaret
sweet princess and shining star, an outstanding recording artist, a
philosopher and an artist bigger than the world we live in!!
Yet,
in her representation of the traditional American music treasures, Anne
Kerry Ford took the liberty to be innovative, to be a daring explorer of new
musical frontiers without frontiers…she took the liberty to incorporate and
cement her own style, personality, taste, concept, visions and………………perhaps,
simply perhaps, she added a new definition, a new aspect, a new character,
a new identity, a new face and a new interpretation to traditional
American musical treasures and Cabaret standards…perhaps, she is not
exclusively and uniquely the only responsible guilty musical visionary of
this revolutionary creation, for I have tendency to believe that her genius
husband has to do something with it. When Anne Kerry Ford sings an American
Standard, a Cabaret ballade or a Cabaret Torch Song, you feel right away the
innovative magical addition and innovation she brought to the perimeter and
spectrum of American golden era music and Cabaret songs.
May be, it
is the musical arrangements, may be it is the sounds she incorporated in her
songs, maybe the eloquently and secretly hidden Jazz and Blues influences,
maybe the perfect harmony and unification between Anne Kerry Ford’s voice,
persona, multi-dimensional talents, her quest for excellence, her character,
her presence on stage, her respect for traditional aesthetics and sacred
beauty of American traditional standards, her intimate, emotional and
personal involvement with every musical note and finally her understanding
of new trends and new needs in today’s world of music. May be, her creative
genius and artistic superiority are the cause-effect of all those elements
and factors, and maybe is just the opposite. In both instances, the effect
of her voice on us transcends the time and the space that surround us, for
her voice is intelligent, mature, ageless, timeless, warm, rich, evocative,
expressive divinely beautiful and this is what defines the “Perfect Voice”
which survives destiny, fate, the good and the bad times. Anne Kerry Ford’s
legacy and mesmerizing voice will live for ever, as long as humanity
remained interested in arts and as long as there are recording studios,
stages, Cabarets, national archives and loyalty to beauty and perfection…
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