PATTI WICKS: BLEND TOGETHER HER VOICE AND MUSIC, AND SHE WILL REIGN AS THE UNDISPUTED DIVA OF ALL DIVAS!
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. Yes, dear contessa, I will tell you more about Patti Wicks. Style creates personality. Personality creates character. And character creates the unmistakable cache and "un je ne sais quoi" about each one of us. Call this "persona", "flair", "originality", "uniqueness", I will not argue with you, especially when all of the above applies to Patti Wicks overwhelming and mesmerizing talent. Just like when you listen to this very first ethereal cithara note whispering in the nenuphars of India, you guess that you are listening to Ravi Shankar. And when this first majestic musical bar of Death Implosion explodes before your eyes and deep in your soul, you realize that you are listening to the fifth symphony of Beethoven. You can't miss. This deja vu experience or a priori knowledge repeats itself as soon as you begin to listen to the music of Patti Wicks and hear her voice. She is recognizable. She is Patti Wicks; Wicks the original, the unmistakable Wicks style, the Wicks talent, flair, cache, genre, virtuosity and beauty. She is divinely unique in her sublime art. Few super duper artists can match her elegantly bursting talent, voice and musical virtuosity. |
THE ORIGINALITY AND UNIQUENESS OF PATTI WICKS
Why Patti Wicks is so original, sharply different from others and walks tall among music giants? First: Her
voice. This alto magnificence of hers. It is the resonance of a dark
timber, femme fatale confessions, elegant intellectualism of a film
noire, glitzy intimacy of a barefoot contessa charmingly confusing the
hell out of a deposed Prussian monarch. Wicks voice is an invitation
to the holy, the sacred and the risqué in vocal virtuosity.
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Photo:
Diva Patti Wicks with Keter and Mike Smith at Blues Alley in
Washington, DC., USA.
Second:
Her music. More than elegant and pure virtuosity. It is beautifully
and humanistically intoxicating. Almost perfect. It breathes poetry.
It metamorphoses in rainbows of multilayered shades, nuances, colors,
variations and threatening mastery of the keyboard. Grosso modo,
she is the perfect pianist. Her stage presence: Commanding, dignified,
imposing, yet warm, genuine and friendly. Who said talent has to be
powerful and only theatrical? How about class, refinement, elegance,
presence, daring originality, depth and this dangerously tempting
"femme artiste fragrance"? Well, Maestra Patti Wicks mastered all of
the above.