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A Tumbleweed No More

“For the minutes when we perform, we are in love.”

rgentine expat jazz singer/composer Roxana Amed knows something about being a stranger in a strange land. She also knows how to adapt, meet like-minded musicians, and forge deep creative partnerships. Amed can, and does, sing anything, from Argentine classical music to Joni Mitchell, from Monk to the American Songbook. But she shies away from tango. “It’s too dark and dramatic for me,” intense, as you can tell from the new album”—she’s referring to (Sony Latin), her seventh CD—“but I might still be too young for it.”

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