Little Candy Heart Sarah Marie Young
Album info
Album-Release:
2014
HRA-Release:
14.10.2014
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1Brighter Days03:37
- 2Can't Stop04:57
- 3Little Candy Heart03:56
- 4Black And White03:59
- 5Lo And Behold03:44
- 6Messing Up Your Bed02:33
- 7What's That Love04:42
- 8Little Candy Heart (Reprise)01:43
- 9Long Way To Go03:32
- 10Work It Out03:57
- 11Be With You04:03
Info for Little Candy Heart
Sarah is a well known, versatile Chicago vocalist and winner of the Montreux Jazz Vocal competition (2011), judged by Quincy Jones. One year after Young’s self released album Too Many Februaries (2013).
From this relationship comes Sarah’s sophomore album, Little Candy Heart, a collection of soulful, jazzy originals that tell the age old story of love and heartbreak. The songs on the album Little Candy Heart have all been written by Sarah, often in close cooperation with pianist Stu Mindeman.
The album is produced by Marijn Kooy and recorded in two days with all musicians playing together, in order to capture the groove and energy of interplay.
Sarah Marie Young, vocals, baritone ukelele
Stu Mindeman, keyboards
Kyle Asche, guitar
Bryan Doherty, bass
Neal Wehman, drums
Leslie Beukelman, backing vocals
Allison Orobia, backing vocals
Recorded at Chicago Recording Company, July 2014
Produced and engineered by Marijn Kooy
Sarah Marie Young
born 1982 and raised in Indianapolis to a supportive bass player father and singer/ pianist mother. She was musically raised in a small Baptist church around gospel music. She is a self taught piano player and attended performing arts middle and highs schools for voice as a child. She wins the Indiana Gospel Meets Classical Voice in 2000. After high school she attends Indiana University for Classical Vocal performance. After two years she changes direction. She ends up in Chicago and starts a Bachelor's in jazz vocal performance with a tuition performance scholarship.
She reaches the semi-finals in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition, judged by Herbie Hancock, Diane Reeves, Kurt Elling, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Al Jarreau in 2010. A year later she enters the Montreux Jazz Vocal Competition, judged by Quincy Jones, and receives first prize. She decided to use the prize, a week in the Swiss mountains at Balik Farm Studios, to record a full length album of originals. The songs, a narrative of the cold Chicago winters, mixed into relationships with family, friends and lovers, bore “Too Many Februaries” in 2013, self released.!