A Trip To The Jazzy Side with Renaja

I have a friend who is a session guitarist who works with a lot of musicians working overseas, and it was through this connection he was introduced to Japanese Jazz Singer Renaja. Though Japanese, Renaja sang a bit of her songs in English, so he took to her music right away!
 He'd send me videos of songs he liked from her occasionally, and I liked them fine (though of course they were nothing like the J-pop stuff I listened to!) and when he picked up a few of her albums "Made Of Love" and "Sugar and Spice", after ripping them to MP3's for his Ipod, he told me I could have the CD's, which I gratefully accepted!
 Going on youtube, i can see that a lot of Renaja's earlier work was mostly in Japanese, but these two albums are almost completely in English, reminding me a lot of early 70's light Jazz music so popular here in Hawaii!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com