Natalia M. King reveals herself

Natalia M. King at RFI.

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By: Joe Farmer Follow

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With each new appearance of singer and guitarist Natalia M. King in the spotlight, we can see her artistic development and personal challenges.

Once upon a time, she was an angry, rebellious and dissatisfied young woman.

The years gradually eroded his wrath, and his maturity eased his torments.

Today, she is ready to assume all of her choices and her convictions, to defend them, to claim them.

 is a daring and deeply honest album.

The blues is the matrix and plunges us into the real life of a sincere and endearing artist. 

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American singer and guitarist Natalia M. King has been remembering us fondly for 20 years.

Over time, we got used to seeing her resurface with more depth and relevance in her words each time.

Installed in France at the turn of the 2000s, she found on the Old Continent a listening that the American recording industry did not grant her.

Admittedly, the first months in Paris were perilous, but his artistic tenacity and a sincere faith in his art got the better of the tumults.

Doubts, setbacks, discouragement never wavered the flame.

Patiently, Natalia M. King traced her path and inscribed her tone in our musical landscape. 

The mischievous Natalia M. King.

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A once cheeky young girl, she readily admits having learned temperance. She has gradually tamed her emotions and her sensitivity is affected. Formerly rough and relentless, his music still so free today seeks the authenticity of the blues as if it was necessary to return to the source, to the fundamental values ​​of artistic expression. This slow melodic evolution undoubtedly reflects the spiritual appeasement of a woman determined to find balance and serenity. It is therefore not curious to see her smile when listening to bluesman Skip James, whose ethereal works and committed words seduce and win her. Natalia M. King now seems ready to indulge. For that,she brings out her natural poetry and also occasionally draws on the round voice and literary impulses of a partner of choice, the folk troubadour Elliott Murphy, guest on the title

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It takes a hell of a dose of temerity to take on all the facets of a personality.

Natalia M. King does not hesitate any longer.

His social aspirations, his intimate struggles, his calls for tolerance, nourish his inspiration.

She acquires wisdom and transmits it to each of us through her repertoire.

Listen to

,

 or

, you can only vibrate.

Read the lyrics to his songs, you can only nod.

Natalia M. King makes us shiver, moves us, enchants us! 

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Natalia M. King is always looking to the future.

© Christian Rose

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