25 April 2014

Lira "Return to Love" (2011)

Return to Love
release date: Jan. 31, 2011
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,16]
producer: Robin Kohl
label: SME Africa - nationality: South Africa

Track highlights: 1. "When I Dance" - 3. "Call Me" - 4. "Love to Love" - 11. "Get Into Action"

4th studio album by South African (model and) pop artist Lira, who makes music in a more traditional contemporary jazz-inspired r&b and pop-style. Her second album Feel Good from 2006 was met as a great success in South Africa, where she was nominated in 5 categories at the Grammy Music Awards in 2007. Lira has a crisp, soulful, and velvet-like singing voice, not unlike that of Sade, and she varies the single compositions from singing in African tongue and English, which seems her preferred singing language.