About
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BioWendy Colonna is a Louisiana girl with a blend of Cajun and Italian ancestry; a perfectly sexy combo that translates well in her music. A young woman who has decidedly come into her own, the dark-eyed Colonna fills her musical space with a throaty voice, deep-down retro roots and soul. Colonna admits that the path of a musician isn’t always the easiest, but she can’t imagine chucking her dream. “I do this work because it calls to me; I have learned that what I’m doing has a powerful effect on people’s lives; it heals and transforms. So I just keep doing it. After all, isn’t persistence and perseverance necessary in all forms of love?” Having grown up in Southwest Louisiana in a working class home, Colonna’s self confidence has not always come easy, even if she makes it look that way. “Life is full of hard knocks,” she realizes. “As long as I’m in touch with my roots, my family, my friends and source, all is possible.” Indeed, Colonna’s seriously strong pipes and songwriting prove that age does foster wisdom and practice does, indeed, make perfect. “My writing is influenced most by songwriters who’s work is so nerve-strikingly personal and universally accessible. . . Jackson Browne, Carole King, Marvin Gaye, Randy Newman, Willie Dixon, Leonard Cohen, Ray LaMontagne and countless others. They touch your soul and let you bring your own stories and characters to the music. . . That’s what I aspire to in writing melodies and lyrics and working with grooves.” A multi-award winning talent who was also voted Austin’s “Best Singer Songwriter” (Austin American Statesman), Colonna is a down-to-earth gal. She regularly cleanses her spirit, conjures musical inspirations and practices yoga on the banks of Barton Springs. “Everyone needs an accessible means and a language for caring for themselves. Making music and yoga are mine.” Like a rock in hurricane, Colonna will continue to move through the music business with the wind behind her, a force of nature that is consistent, strong and rich, like her pipes and her stories. – Christine Cox |
What folks are saying. . .“Wendy Colonna is not just a singer-songwriter. . . she’s a force of Nature” “WE ARE ONE perfectly demonstrates Wendy Colonna’s unceasing maturity as both songwriter and vocalist. Papa Mali appears to be just the sort of producer capable of capturing her incredible range in both areas – an ability to emote everything from gentle sweetness to belting it out like a full-blown, scorching Soul Queen.” ~ Cecil Doyle, KRVS, Lafayette LA “Colonna’s fourth album is a cohesive mix of funky blues that immediately carries you into the swampy sounds of Louisiana. The music is a mix of horns, funky oldschool organs and hard driving blues guitar that flow together with Colonna’s voice and lyrics for a category five storm. . . . “We Are One” captures Colonna’s talents as a songwriter and gives listeners a full immersion in the Louisiana musical mojo. Colonna hits her musical stride. The album is the Colonna album to own and one to grab in case of an evacuation.” – Karen Wink, Lake Charles American Press “Colonna’s recently been named best singer/songwriter by the Austin American-Statesman, and this time around, I’m going to agree with them, and go a step further. She’s the best singer songwriter to come out of Lake Charles, Louisiana, anytime in recent memory.” – Jambalaya News “Wendy Colonna was there [The Ghost Room] to introduce her gloriously soulful CD, “We Are One.” The crowd drank in her delicious voice. ” – Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, “Out & About” “Produced by Papa Mali, a kindred Texas/Louisiana spirit, the 12-song collection [We Are One] beautifully showcases Colonna’s soulful grit, her tender-tough abilities, her talents as a singer and as a songwriter and her collaborators, including her partner, guitarist Chad Pope, and producer Papa Mali. Colonna moves among love songs (“Love Comes Once”), topical commentary (“Hurricane”), New Orleans funk (“Mojo Hannah”) and deep blues (“If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day”) and makes those moves naturally.” – Jim Beal Jr., My San Antonio.com “This firey beauty has a voice that ranges from gravel to nightengale” – Goleta Valley Voice (CA) |
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