Artist description Singer/songwriter Barbara Lewis is a unique artist who combines beautiful melodies and a haunting, wide-range voice with lyrics that carry a strong social message. Her music expresses time-honored yearnings -- searching for freedom, embracing life's mysteries and staying true to your heart's desires. A storyteller for modern times, Lewis incorporates song and spoken text in her unique performances.

Music Style New World Fusion - poetic lyrics, with a political edge in a World/Folk/Jazz blend.

Musical Influences For world sound: African, Indonesian, Chinese traditional music / For North American sound: lush folk, blues, jazz, classical / For lyrical content: Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Group Members Barbara Lewis and a core group of instrumentalists. Barbara Lewis - lead vocals; Jon Deley (keyboards - combination of jazz influence, world/folk, and futuristic space sounds); Joe Mowatt (percussion - traditional exotic instruments); Peter Calo (variety of guitars, acoustic and electric)

Instruments keyboard, guitar, percussion, flute/sax

Albums Book of Dreams; Hara's Quest; Once in a Blue Moon; Freedom; Love (Coming Fall 2000)

Press Reviews "Beautiful melodies, perfectly intertwined, both with respect to the music and the lyrics.... " - Derek Doarn ~ Amazings Reviews, Spain "Hara's Quest is a beautifully conceived, ambitious work that stretches the boundaries of the New Age with its originality and maturity." - New Life, New York " ...Lewis is known for creating music that "explores the frontiers of human experience." Her latest compilation, titled Hara's Quest, combines the meditative lyricism of new age, the sounds and textures of world-folk and the improvisational qualities of jazz, in a style of music she refers to as "new world fusion." - The Gazette, Montreal

Additional Info Two song video (for sale), and heard on PBS and other TV stations.

Location Montreal, Quebec - Canada

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