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Andrea Marr is an superb singer who faithfully displays the sound and voices of legendary Stax and Motown, as well as the atmosphere created by those incredible singers like James Brown, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Etta James or Sharon Jones. From them Andrea has assimilated different chromatic nuances, flavours and colours she adds to her music with a clever elegance and good taste that become a distinctive stamp to the way she sings funk and soul. Born in Sri Lanka, she has developed his career in Australia where she has been recognized with countless awards for her magnificent work by Australian blues scene. She has also participated a couple of times representing her country at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis that every year is organized by The Blues Foundation. This is her seventh work, where she has included eleven songs, nine of them own compositions. Andrea Marr feels really comfortable in soul music, providing fresh air and young blood to a genre where it is not easy to find new values who are able to perform it with taste, elegance, skill and feeling enough to convince listeners. But this woman together with her eight musicians band The Funky Hitmen, have managed to successfully fit in their repertoire all the just mentioned music values and qualities. GREAT.