“Songs are like trains; they take you from one place to another. This coll… Read Full Bio ↴“Songs are like trains; they take you from one place to another. This collection of songs, I think, is my train home,” says Chiara Civello, in describing her second album, The Space Between.
Sultry voice, poetic lyrics and surprising harmonies are just a part of the recipe that makes Chiara's music so irresistible.
The distance she has traveled is both musical and spiritual-literally stretching across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Rome, Chiara was encouraged to play the piano by her grandmother; she kids that her nonna's out-of-tune upright afforded the best ear training. She briefly tried the acoustic guitar, but that ended almost comically with a drive to get some gelato. "The little car only had two doors," she remembers. "When I sat down, I broke the neck of the guitar. That was it for me. No more guitar. My mother said, 'You'd better sing, girl!'"
Chiara had already been in some classical choirs, but was looking for something freer than the operatic traditions of her homeland. A friend suggested that she learn jazz; she'd never heard of it. A little investigation brought her to a private music school that she would attend through her four years of high school: the St. Louis Music Academy in Rome. When she was sixteen, Chiara began singing professionally and won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. She enrolled there from 1994-98. By the first year Chiara was a regular on the Boston club scene, performing with different bands.
But her journey didn't end with Boston or jazz. Chiara's move to New York City was inevitable. Searching for something musically closer to her Mediterranean roots, she immersed herself in Latin and Brazilian music, learning Spanish and Portuguese along the way. She also wrote her first song, "Parole Incerte" ("Uncertain Words"), about the misunderstandings that can come from the distance between a person and her loved ones.
Meanwhile, two of Chiara's bandmates - pianist Alain Mallet and drummer Jamey Haddad - had begun working with Paul Simon and invited her to a rehearsal. It was there that she met producer Russ Titelman and left him with a demo of "Parole Incerte." He called the very next day and insisted, "You are a songwriter. Forget about everything else you are doing. You have to write." Chiara began composing lyrics in English. She studied the work of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor.
Titelman let president and CEO of Verve hear the song and the next day Chiara was offered a record deal that not only allowed her to enter the studio but made her the first Italian born to be signed by Verve Records.
From this series of encouraging and exciting encounters emerged the 10 original compositions included on her debut album LAST QUARTER MOON, Verve2005; seven written by herself and three co-writes, including the brooding ballad "Trouble" that was co-written with legend Burt Bacharach. "I had almost every song on the album," recalls Chiara, "when Russ called me to say that Burt Bacharach was interested in writing with me." "Trouble" came together during a three day session at Bacharach's Los Angeles home. Chiara arrived with an idea for the melody; they shaped and refined it as a team.
The first album granted her a first round of the world and great position in the charts of italy and Japan.
Billboard Magazine noted that, “the beauty, charm and allure of singer/pianist/songwriter Chiara Civello’s debut…makes for an auspicious beginning and marks the first revelation of the New Year.” The International Herald Tribune declared “her combination of personality, soulfulness and sophistication…striking.”
The second album The Space Between (2007 Universal Classic and Jazz) produced by Steve Addabbo , shows a more intimate and immediate side of the singer songwriter, leading us us through a journey of thirteen beautiful moments where we feel we can get really close to her.
“This is a record about ‘the space between’. The space between the notes, the silence between words, the space between me and you, me and my past, me and my future, and all the spaces between that nowadays are so difficult to stop and think about….the space between that makes you feel the reality better, the space that makes you miss someone, the space between that makes you not say everything all at once, but bit by bit, as the need of saying it gets stronger in you. The space between what I think and what I say… In Italy, we have a saying: Between saying and doing, there is the sea.”
The album entered successfully the Italian and Japanese chiarts and led her to new important artistic collaborations.
Definitely an itinerant soul, Chiara describes her life as:” My home is the world, as long as there’s a piano at the destination, my world fits in a suitcase, the rest I carry with me : my computer and my guitar.
"Jazz was the most incredible diving machine when it came to going really deep into music," says Civello, about her path of discovery, one sure to continue in the future. "But I knew I couldn't be the new Ella Fitzgerald; I couldn't be the new Shirley Horn. I learned all different kinds of music and then I said to myself, 'I need to find my own voice. Time to unlearn now, time to be free.' It's like a hot air balloon: To be able to fly you have to throw off the sandbags. I want to be as light as I can-light as a feather."
“In the first album you search, in the second you focus, in the third you find yourself…. and here I am,” says Chiara Civello in describing her third album titled “7752” of upcoming release.
7752 is the distance in Kilometers from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, the two cities that provided the inspiration for this album. New York is where Chiara lives, while Rio changed Chiara’s life…
While visiting her friend, Daniel Jobim, in Rio in February 2008, Chiara was taken to a party (known as SARAO) where artists and musicians of all kinds get together. The guitar went around and everyone sang a song. As Chiara shared, listened, and learned, a new phase of her artistic path began.
“Co-writing I was already familiar with,” says Chiara, “since those unforgettable three days spent in Santa Monica in which I wrote Trouble with Burt Bacharach for my first album…but in Brazil everyone co writes. It’s a big party, everyone shares and dares and makes it happen.”
Ana Carolina, a Brazilian pop star, is one of the main collaborators of 7752. Not only did she co-write five of the songs with Chiara, but she also played acoustic guitar on most of them. “We met at that party and she asked me if I had a melody for her, so the next day I started RESTA, a song that soon after we finished together and sang as a duet live in Sao Paulo.” Success has already accompanied the collaboration with Ana Carolina, as RESTA will be featured on the new Novela of Globo TV called “Passione,” starting on May 17, 2010.
Written between Rio, New York, and Trastevere (Rome), 7752 includes ten musical moments of which eight were recorded in NYC (and produced by the eclectic producer Andres Levin), while four were recorded in Rio and produced by Chiara herself.
“All my friends and favorite musicians merged into this record in the most natural way…it was like bringing the Rio spirit into the studio: Mauro Refosco (Thom Yorke, David Byrne, Forro’ in The Dark) and Guilherme Monteiro (Ron Carter, Forro in The Dark) had already recorded with me and I couldn’t possibly think of a record without them, Anat Cohen is one of my best friends and I have always wanted to have her on my album but we never were able to make it happen; Jaques Morelenbaum is one of the most talented and sentimental musicians I have ever met; Mark Ribot was the perfect guy for these songs, not to mention the great rhythm section that Andres brought in the studio, Gene Lake on the drums and Jonathan Maron on the bass. Ana Carolina who wrote most of the songs with me already owned them on the acoustic guitar and added her tremendous groove to them”.
Already defined as an “enticing and contagious” album, 7752 sounds lively, while portraying a new, playful and joyous aspect of Chiara’s singing and songwriting. The sound is a beautiful alchemy among the 60s, Italian melody, Brazilian harmonies, and R&B.
http://www.chiaracivello.com
Sultry voice, poetic lyrics and surprising harmonies are just a part of the recipe that makes Chiara's music so irresistible.
The distance she has traveled is both musical and spiritual-literally stretching across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Rome, Chiara was encouraged to play the piano by her grandmother; she kids that her nonna's out-of-tune upright afforded the best ear training. She briefly tried the acoustic guitar, but that ended almost comically with a drive to get some gelato. "The little car only had two doors," she remembers. "When I sat down, I broke the neck of the guitar. That was it for me. No more guitar. My mother said, 'You'd better sing, girl!'"
Chiara had already been in some classical choirs, but was looking for something freer than the operatic traditions of her homeland. A friend suggested that she learn jazz; she'd never heard of it. A little investigation brought her to a private music school that she would attend through her four years of high school: the St. Louis Music Academy in Rome. When she was sixteen, Chiara began singing professionally and won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. She enrolled there from 1994-98. By the first year Chiara was a regular on the Boston club scene, performing with different bands.
But her journey didn't end with Boston or jazz. Chiara's move to New York City was inevitable. Searching for something musically closer to her Mediterranean roots, she immersed herself in Latin and Brazilian music, learning Spanish and Portuguese along the way. She also wrote her first song, "Parole Incerte" ("Uncertain Words"), about the misunderstandings that can come from the distance between a person and her loved ones.
Meanwhile, two of Chiara's bandmates - pianist Alain Mallet and drummer Jamey Haddad - had begun working with Paul Simon and invited her to a rehearsal. It was there that she met producer Russ Titelman and left him with a demo of "Parole Incerte." He called the very next day and insisted, "You are a songwriter. Forget about everything else you are doing. You have to write." Chiara began composing lyrics in English. She studied the work of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor.
Titelman let president and CEO of Verve hear the song and the next day Chiara was offered a record deal that not only allowed her to enter the studio but made her the first Italian born to be signed by Verve Records.
From this series of encouraging and exciting encounters emerged the 10 original compositions included on her debut album LAST QUARTER MOON, Verve2005; seven written by herself and three co-writes, including the brooding ballad "Trouble" that was co-written with legend Burt Bacharach. "I had almost every song on the album," recalls Chiara, "when Russ called me to say that Burt Bacharach was interested in writing with me." "Trouble" came together during a three day session at Bacharach's Los Angeles home. Chiara arrived with an idea for the melody; they shaped and refined it as a team.
The first album granted her a first round of the world and great position in the charts of italy and Japan.
Billboard Magazine noted that, “the beauty, charm and allure of singer/pianist/songwriter Chiara Civello’s debut…makes for an auspicious beginning and marks the first revelation of the New Year.” The International Herald Tribune declared “her combination of personality, soulfulness and sophistication…striking.”
The second album The Space Between (2007 Universal Classic and Jazz) produced by Steve Addabbo , shows a more intimate and immediate side of the singer songwriter, leading us us through a journey of thirteen beautiful moments where we feel we can get really close to her.
“This is a record about ‘the space between’. The space between the notes, the silence between words, the space between me and you, me and my past, me and my future, and all the spaces between that nowadays are so difficult to stop and think about….the space between that makes you feel the reality better, the space that makes you miss someone, the space between that makes you not say everything all at once, but bit by bit, as the need of saying it gets stronger in you. The space between what I think and what I say… In Italy, we have a saying: Between saying and doing, there is the sea.”
The album entered successfully the Italian and Japanese chiarts and led her to new important artistic collaborations.
Definitely an itinerant soul, Chiara describes her life as:” My home is the world, as long as there’s a piano at the destination, my world fits in a suitcase, the rest I carry with me : my computer and my guitar.
"Jazz was the most incredible diving machine when it came to going really deep into music," says Civello, about her path of discovery, one sure to continue in the future. "But I knew I couldn't be the new Ella Fitzgerald; I couldn't be the new Shirley Horn. I learned all different kinds of music and then I said to myself, 'I need to find my own voice. Time to unlearn now, time to be free.' It's like a hot air balloon: To be able to fly you have to throw off the sandbags. I want to be as light as I can-light as a feather."
“In the first album you search, in the second you focus, in the third you find yourself…. and here I am,” says Chiara Civello in describing her third album titled “7752” of upcoming release.
7752 is the distance in Kilometers from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, the two cities that provided the inspiration for this album. New York is where Chiara lives, while Rio changed Chiara’s life…
While visiting her friend, Daniel Jobim, in Rio in February 2008, Chiara was taken to a party (known as SARAO) where artists and musicians of all kinds get together. The guitar went around and everyone sang a song. As Chiara shared, listened, and learned, a new phase of her artistic path began.
“Co-writing I was already familiar with,” says Chiara, “since those unforgettable three days spent in Santa Monica in which I wrote Trouble with Burt Bacharach for my first album…but in Brazil everyone co writes. It’s a big party, everyone shares and dares and makes it happen.”
Ana Carolina, a Brazilian pop star, is one of the main collaborators of 7752. Not only did she co-write five of the songs with Chiara, but she also played acoustic guitar on most of them. “We met at that party and she asked me if I had a melody for her, so the next day I started RESTA, a song that soon after we finished together and sang as a duet live in Sao Paulo.” Success has already accompanied the collaboration with Ana Carolina, as RESTA will be featured on the new Novela of Globo TV called “Passione,” starting on May 17, 2010.
Written between Rio, New York, and Trastevere (Rome), 7752 includes ten musical moments of which eight were recorded in NYC (and produced by the eclectic producer Andres Levin), while four were recorded in Rio and produced by Chiara herself.
“All my friends and favorite musicians merged into this record in the most natural way…it was like bringing the Rio spirit into the studio: Mauro Refosco (Thom Yorke, David Byrne, Forro’ in The Dark) and Guilherme Monteiro (Ron Carter, Forro in The Dark) had already recorded with me and I couldn’t possibly think of a record without them, Anat Cohen is one of my best friends and I have always wanted to have her on my album but we never were able to make it happen; Jaques Morelenbaum is one of the most talented and sentimental musicians I have ever met; Mark Ribot was the perfect guy for these songs, not to mention the great rhythm section that Andres brought in the studio, Gene Lake on the drums and Jonathan Maron on the bass. Ana Carolina who wrote most of the songs with me already owned them on the acoustic guitar and added her tremendous groove to them”.
Already defined as an “enticing and contagious” album, 7752 sounds lively, while portraying a new, playful and joyous aspect of Chiara’s singing and songwriting. The sound is a beautiful alchemy among the 60s, Italian melody, Brazilian harmonies, and R&B.
http://www.chiaracivello.com
Sofa
Chiara Civello Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Sofa' by these artists:
&love Layin on the sofa With my arm around your shoulder And just…
(Crush) 니가 있던 소파 앉아 있어 혼자 단 한숨도 못 자고 혹시…
-laspalmas me ouça com teus olhos e guarde tudo o que ouvir eles…
2 Chainz; Wiz Khalifa Broccoli, broccoli Hey-hey, hey (broccoli, broccoli) Fine bi…
5amDiaries ドレミミファソそっか ドレミミミズずるいねミファソ空にニジマス 「どれに秘密隠した?」ソファーに聞けば念仏 ほらほらみ…
B.O.O.K.S. One You know the vibes I’m wit the guys I’m getting high Nigga I…
Cat In a Zoo Escondi por detrás do sofá meu bem Pra sentir só você…
Chapeaumelon Tout seul et roi Je suis nonchalant Plus d'ambition J'évite …
Collard I was there for you when you overdosed I spent that…Comisario Pantera si alguna vez piensas en mi, si lo que te di…
Cruhsh 니가 있던 소파 앉이 있어 혼자 단 한숨도 못자고 혹시 니가 올까 하고 멍하니…
Crush 니가 있던 소파 앉아 있어 혼자 단 한숨도 못 자고 혹시…
Curtisy It's coke on my gums, this is not cola I was…
Dazie Mae The test of real love and the dating game The expectation…
Deepflow 편하게 갈아입은 옷과 내 몸을 파묻을 sofa 그거면 됐어 alright 날 항상…
EAV Der Papa träumt von seiner Jugend, Als er in jungen Jahren …
Ed Sheeran She's reinventing loving me When we're resembling cutlery on…
Elida Almeida N sai di nha kasa pam ba pa Txadinha N sai…
EOW Tシャツの袖の隙間から少し見えた下着に 思わずため息どうしたのなんて君は笑って この小さいソファーに その小さな肩に …
Frank Zappa I am the heaven I am the water Ich bin…
Hannah Ascher I'm not mad today Just a little bit fuzzy Trying to shake…
Il Paradiso Degli Orchi there's a mouse it's riding in my house, I won't catch…
Inês Marques Lucas Quantas histórias Poderia um sofá contar? Quantos corpos, qu…
Islas Sabes muy bien en donde tocar Siempre fuimos bestias los ver…
Josh Cullen Ngayong gabi ay 'di palalagpasin Ang 'yong himpilan at isipa…
Joshua Dietrich Y si te digo que ahora yo tomo café En…
Julia Campbell I'm drunk and a little too far from you I wish…
Kiss Daniel It's G Worldwide Let me hold yah put me arms up…
Kizz Daniel It's G Worldwide Let me hold yah, put me arms up…
km: VOU TE BOTAR DE 4 DE QUATRO NO SOFA VOU TE…
La Habitación Roja Ahora que todos duermen ya y ella ha encontrado un nuevo…
Le Couple ごめんね もっと私を叱ってもいいよ やっと 気づいたなんて おかしいって 抱いて 愛されてると 知らずに生きてた その胸…
Leborato So far away Eu nunca Sei Quando cê vai voltar Dormir no meu…
Lo-Fi Theater Me sentaré a olvidarte amor Me enredaré entre hilos y agujas…
Luli eg har ingen penger eg kan gi deg men eg gir…
Meno del Picchia Eu não tava te esperando nessa hora tão difícil pra…
midnide Vier Uhr morgens Krieg' kein'n Schlaf und die Zeit ist am re…
Nanasai Mudei meus moveis de lugar Pra caso um dia cê voltar Olhar…
O.S.T.R. feat. Sofa You gonna spent me wrong... You gonna spent me wrong... You …
Ocho the Bullet Ah don't get it twisted I'm just keepin' it tops And…
Pajel Ich wache morgens auf, ich muss früh raus, doch hatt'…
Pedro Vilela Hoje ele acordou cansado de sonhar Olhando a vida la fora…
Qounfuzed Whiner Baby whiner Baby whiner Whiner Skin to skin, bod…
Seed A.I. Umuntu ugrade enyuvesi lutho amatoho Umuntu ugeje enkundleni…
Shikao Suga 窓のない向かいの工場が 季節に関係なく低い音をたてていて ぼくはいつも 世界のどこにいても その音がするんだと あたりま…
Terra mãe Sofá, planeta Me leva a viajar No espaço tempo Nos anéis de …
V A ドレミミファソそっか ドレミミミズずるいねミファソ空にニジマス 「どれに秘密隠した?」ソファーに聞けば念仏 ほらほらみ…
W33n Vier Uhr morgens Krieg' kein'n Schlaf und die Zeit ist am re…
xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki - Suga Shikao 窓のない向かいの工場が 季節に関係なく低い音をたてていて ぼくはいつも 世界のどこにいても その音がするんだと あたりま…
Zébulon Me semble que j'ai payé Que j'ai purgé ma peine J'ai même…
Züri West Es isch haubi eis u ds liecht geit a U dr…
スガシカオ 窓のない向かいの工場が 季節に関係なく低い音をたてていて ぼくはいつも 世界のどこにいても その音がするんだと あたりま…
Supergrass I wandered for a while I didn't have that far to…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Chiara Civello:
03 I Didn I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart Bett…
03 I Didn't Want I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart B…
8 Storie Dopo 8 storie così Potrei star tranquilla Però mi sento che …
Arrivederci Arrivederci, dammi la mano e sorridi senza piangere Arrived…
Born to Sail Away Only child of moon and sun She learned to love the…
Caramel It won't do To dream of caramel, To think of cinnamon And…
Col tempo sai Col tempo sai col tempo tutto se ne va non ricordi…
Con una rosa Con una rosa hai detto vienimi a cercare tutta la sera io…
Dimmi Perche Dimmi perché non rispondi quando chiamo io Ti sembra questo …
Don When I said I needed you You said you would always…
Don't ask me why For now I try, But everything I know doesn't apply So I A…
Fortissimo Pianissimo Te lo dico pianissimo Questo piccolo ciao Sottovo…
Here Is Everything Walking on my way from you The sun is gone And all…
I I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart Bett…
I Didn I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart B…
I Didn't Want I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart Bett…
I Didn't Want (Mais Que a Mim) I heard them say you're doing fine You've found a heart…
i didn`t want I heard them say You're doing fine You've found a heart B…
I Will Wait for You The clock will tick away The hours one by one…
I'm your love Another day in my life In between spirals and flames I am…
If you ever think of me Spring isn't shy here It's sunny and green Back to a…
In Questi Giorni In questi giorni sai L'oceano sembra avere esagerato con il…
Isola Comincia il giorno come il giorno più comune Nell'autunno a…
i`m your love Another day in my life In between spirals and flames I am…
L Train A quarter moon is shining high In union square A sense of…
La vie en rose Se tu sei vicino a me Sognando insieme a te La vita…
Last Quarter Moon last quarter moon can you tell me dear how do i get…
My Broken Heart Alone under the stars Alone with my guitar I'm about to ta…
My Somewhere To Go (Chiara Civello, Itaal Shur) Chiara Civello, Vocal, Backgor…
My Way cnd now, the end is near cnd so I face the…
Nature Song When the leaves began to fall I heard Nature's lonesome cr…
Never Never Never Mmm-mmm, hmm, mmm-mmm Mmm, mmm I′d like to run away from yo…
Night Night Have a good night And if there's trouble on your min…
Non andare via Non andare via puoi dimenticare Tutto quello che se ne è…
Non avevo capito niente Non avevo capito niente, niente Quello che importa è che ade…
One more thing Driving around A faraway town The first drop of clarity I fi…
Ora Ora che sto per partire non voglio pensare a dove arrivero'…
Otto Storie Dopo otto storie cosi potrei star tranquilla Pero' mi sento …
Outono Luz do sol no chão molhado, Acerolas temporãs, Som de vento …
Parole Incerte fino a quando senza incanto vedro’ quelle immagini che sai …
Petite Fleur Si les fleurs Qui bordent les chemins Se fanaient toutes de…
Pour toi Pour Toi J'ai quitté ceux que j'aimais J'ai perdu ceux…
Problemi Questa distanza tra noi Divide I momenti a meta' Con la tua…
Que me importa el mundo Que me importa el mundo, Cuando tu estas muy cerca de…
Que reste-t-il de nos amours ? Che cosa resta amore mio Di me e di te e…
Resta Eu já não sei respirar quando estou ao lado seu. Juro…
Seagulls Seagulls flying through my mind Lazy by the sea Flowing in…
Simplesmente aconteceu Simplesmente aconteceu Não tem mais você e eu No jardim dos …
Skylark Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me…
Something Good Something good is coming to my life I don't know what…
The Goodlife Oh, the good life Full of fun seems to be…
The Wrong Goodbye If you only knew How you made my day last night When…
Tre Champagne e lacrime sudore e fragole La vita facile non fa…
Trouble When in the night you wander Into my dreams, there you…
Un Duomo che non sa dire addio (Ela não sabe dizer adeus) Un uomo che non sa dire addio Ti dice "io…
Un passo dopo l'altro Un passo dopo l'altro Capirai Ed il mio lento canto Vestir? …
Un uomo una donna Due giorni fa badabadadada badabadadada Sentivo già badabad…
Va bene va bene così Cosa facciamo stiamo insieme stasera dai non andare via non …
Via con me Via, via, vieni via di qui niente più ti lega a…
What Now My Love What now my love now that you've left me How can…
Without Him I spend the night in a chair thinking he'll be…
Yesterday When I Was Young Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet…
Your home Fearless smile, Hands of wind on golden strings You melody…
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