★★★★★ Rara review
From her recent Acoustic performance, coming out soon
The Cheltenham sensation enraptured the audience at Rouge for a night, since then the pop-soul princess has released another hit song, as powerful as the last. Two songs and two sensational music videos in just 6 weeks. Is this one of the hardest working music artists out there right now? We certainly think so…
‘Sweet Hurricane’
Her look is reminiscent of her idol Dusty Springfield, and her vocal prowess a credit to the Queens of soul & pop: Dusty, Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. Full length gloves, one hand on her hip and one out stretched out to the audience as she belts out an array of vocals that take you on on a journey through her joy, pain and love of expression. She puts the artist in music artist, a master at her craft.
In |September there was a dimly lit red light over her head in a dark room, people sitting on the floor just to get a front row seat. What a debut performance it was, where people got to share an intimate experience of the best soul act to come out of the quaint English Town.
‘It’s not Fair’
‘It’s not fair’ is a song about temptation: your deepest, darkest, most primate desires fighting against your mind and reasoning. A gospel soul performance with a music video to match, shot in a stunning church, Rara lying on the floor belting out some of her best vocals to date. She paints a story through her music with her expansive vocal palette alongside catchy hooks and incredibly composed music that has you on a knifes edge wating for the next note. Just when you feel you pull away, she reaches out, grasps your chest and brings you back in for more.
‘Break it’ Single Cover
Just a month on from ‘It’s not fair’ and she has now released ‘Break it’, a song set within the end of a relationship, the lyrics “It’s not quite broken, so break it” resonates with so many of us that hung onto the fragmented strands of a relationship till they finally frayed and broke, prolonging the inevitable. Described by Rara as “The ultimate break up song”, it shows a different side to the sixties soul artist that diversifies her portfolio with a slow break up song, alongside the upbeat pop with bright catchy hooks of ‘Sweet Hurricane’ and the Gospel ballad that is: ‘It’s not fair’.
Speaking to Rara, she has set plans for acoustic releases, potential for more remixes with people like Stonebridge who did Sweet Hurricane and a Christmas song, which is under lock and key currently. Based on what we have heard so far, the upwards trajectory is showing no signs of slowing down, and this artist is one to watch!