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New Release: Under A Lavender Sky from Ermelinda Cuellar

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New Release:  Under A Lavender Sky from Ermelinda Cuellar Label:  Self-Released Release Date:  March 21 2025 Website:  www.ermelindacuellar.com Of Peruvian descent, Texas-based vocalist Ermelinda Cuellar showcases her gift as as jazz crooner on her recording Under A Lavender Sky with arrangements by Horace Alexander Young and accompanied by a 12-piece orchestra.  Singing melodies in Spanish and English, she tailors the tunes to her warm and caressing timbres, moving between a lulling sonorous and a festive vibrancy.  Cuellar shines a starry glisten on classic jazz standards and Latin favorites with startling ease and finesse. https://ermelindacuellar.com/

Album Review: What a Difference a Day Made from Ermelinda Cuellar

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Album:  What a Difference a Day Made Artist: Ermelinda Cuellar Label: Self-Released Website: www.ermelindacuellar.com   The lush and penetrative vocal textures of Ermelinda Cuellar are entrancing, displaying an elegance that’s unparallel to others, demonstrated on her latest release What a Difference a Day Made .   Fraught with modern jazz standards, Cuellar fuses bossa nova smoothness with swing blues sophistication.   The clarity in her voicing is inviting, encouraging an intimacy with her audience that is ideal for building a lasting bond with listeners. Her vocals caress the melodies, imprinting gentle cascades, sleek glides, and flickering embers along the melodic progressions with an ease that is bewitching.   Her treatment of “Midnight Sun” partners the smoothness of jazz vocals with the exotic tingles of Latin grooves.   The intensity in her storytelling, sung intermittently between English and Spanish, enhances the sentiment projected i...