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"You have to go back as far as Laura Nyro's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession for the kind of stark, haunting purity that is abundant on Alicia."
--Dwight Hobbes of Insight News (September 2007)
SOUND OF HER OWN
"She describes herself as open-minded when it comes to music, enjoying everything from ballads to hip-hop. Her open minded tastes in music translate to her own sound, which doesn't fit squarely in any category."
--Plymouth Magazine (April 2007)
Take note: Jazz pianist/singer Alicia Wiley
--Mpls St. Paul Magazine (Dec. Issue 2006)
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--Jazziz (October 2006)
"Is Minneapolis-based Alicia Wiley a jazz performer with pop sensibilities or a pop artist with jazz sensibilities? With this 5-song EP she is, at least at this point in time, the latter..."
--Mark Snow of Reader Weekly (3/26/2005)
"With a voice soft and low as a shag carpet, Wiley's soothing music will prove the perfect New Year's Day hangover cure."
--Duluth News Tribune (12/30/2004)
"22 year old ingenue Alicia Wiley writes and sings like she's "been there, done that" twice, and pulls it off with style. Think of a young Lauren Bacall more than holding her own with Humphrey Bogart."
--Mark Snow of Reader Weekly (11/04, 2004)
"Wiley was one of the musical highlights when I saw her perform at the Minnesota Music Awards earlier this month, where she one Best Female Vocalist and Best Self-Released Recording after receiving 4 nominations. Just seeing her perform once is enough to realize she deserved them all."
--How Was The Show (10/29/2004)
"Her Dark, dusky voice sprouts from a wafer-thin body and could be mistaken for Fiona Apple's. At the piano, her style and sensitibity are more often found in seasoned accompanists than in 22-year-olds hungry enough to play for a Monday dinner crowd."
--Matt Peiken of the St. Paul Pioneer Press (6/18/2004)
"While her deep voice is more like a cross between Fiona Apple and Diana krall, her CD does have a soft ambience like Jones' albums."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune (6/11/2004)
"There's a melancholy bliss to this world-weary angel..a waif whose voice resonates in those hidden places where love and pain share the same space. She is a conjurer who impishly reveals the secrets of the human heart."
--Robyne Robinson, Fox 9 news
"...a songstress for the masses...sculpted as much by contemporary rock and pop as by bop and smooth jazz."
--Matt Peiken, St. Paul Pioneer Press
"...destined for fame since her fleet fingers grazed the keys at age 6."
--Courtney Lewis, Minnesota Monthly
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