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While there are no Grammies yet for this new artist, there are lots of compliments and accolades bestowed on her efforts and work.
Rumer may be a somewhat unknown artist in the States however in very short order she has managed to catch the attention of NPR, the BBC, The UK Guardian and the Telegraph at about the time when Adele dropped off the radar, while recovering from her vocal chord injuries. You could say she is a new sensation from Britain and she is walking on air after her successful debut album, selling more than 500,000 copies, a small number to be sure, nonetheless a very nice start for a new player.
Her most recent album from Atlantic Records is Boys Don't Cry, a set of re-worked songs from the 1970s all song by men, didn't hit the US charts as had her debut album, Seasons of My Soul; however both are performing remarkably well in Europe and internationally. Like many of her colleagues that eschew a more nonchalant and casual personna targeting an older audience and the Adult Contemporary and Jazz genres, Rumer has been described in the press as "substance over style".
Rumer's album is mellow jazz songs, not instrumentals jazz, and exudes a slow, very relaxed tempo and vocalization range and is very pleasant overall if you are in a downshift mode at the end of the day or weekend. It's definitely not suitable if you need a burst of energy, wake me up and gotta go-go, or for a festive party with friends and new cliques at a social event or college campus.
About the creative process in producing the new album, she stated to the Seattle Pi in 2012 "Almost like an impressionist painter, we captured emotional impressions. We didn't want to change the structure, we just wanted to sort of capture the emotion."
Born in Pakistan in 1979 to an English family, Rumer is originally Sarah Joyce and each member of her family played an instrument. In her 2012 CBS News interview Sarah confided that at 32 years of age she had to wait for a decade before she got notices from the likes of Burt Bacharach, Elton John and Shirley Bassey. On getting passed over she said "Maybe I didn't look the part … I
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