True Confession...

...ite, so my kids just absolutely love the high school musical phenomena. so for christmas we got 'em the dvd/cds (where we -okay me- promptly put it on their iPod shuffle, volume limited). tonight, we had the high school musical-o-rama (yes, i sing along too) where we watched high school musical parts 1 and 2; and like all dvd owners we like to see the bonus features. we switch over to the music videos on hsm 2. this canadien sings one of the songs- one in french, same song in english (available to our neighbors up north). her name's Nikki Yanofksi. on the video she has this powerful voice but i swear she looks no more than 12 or 13 years old. a good set of pipes regardless. so i google her and she's like this canadien, singing phenom. her inspiration's Ella Fitzgerald (whom i dig through Melissa's cds) and jazz-two things i dig and together the whole is better than the sum of its parts. so i youtube her and found this. she sings with the oliver jones trio (they're badass). her pitch is so-so but ella just comes through and the oliver jones trio-well they're the oliver jones trio. if you don't like jazz vocals forget it. she's twelve here, you be the judge...

here's her highlights from the montreal jazz fest '08, where she's 14.