Ericka Ovette

Ericka is a born story-teller with innate good taste.

--Washington Post

(new) Washington Post review by Mike Joyce

...The evening was a textbook sample of what music should be about. Ovette is a marvelous vocalist. This reviewer, a record collector for many years, can close his eyes and hear a very young Sarah Vaughan, from the Musicraft Records days. She is a joy to watch because she sincerely enjoys her work. Expect great things from her in the future.

--The Meadville Tribune

...there are many ghosts in her voice, hovering in the neighborhood, little inflections, a breath here, a pause there, and you think of the numerous voices that went before her, even before she was born and was the foundation of American popular music from Ethel Waters, Mildred Bailey, Bessie Smith and the terminal cadences of Billie Holiday. Ericka's a searcher.

-- The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India

Ericka's powerful and inspired singing gives the group (Body and Soul) its cutting edge.

--The Weekend Gazette, Harare, Zimbabwe

When she wraps a phrase around a tune you watch the skill with which she makes it so snug that you don't see the ends sticking out and recognise how lovingly you must understand the meaning of phrase and pause and silence that make up music, to sing that way.

--The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India

Ericka appears to carry her music not just in her head and heart, but in her whole body...There is a grace and very physical quality to her music.

-- SPAN, United States Information Service

Ericka...is laid back and very interactive with her audience.

FIRST CITY MAGAZINE, New Delhi, India

Ericka's...voice, which is not easy to forget, is Caribbean full, strong, sometimes smoky with a husk that descends upon it like a mist, and a range that seems as effortless as breathing.

The Hindustan Times, New Delhi

In India for the past three years, Ericka...has charmed music lovers with sublime renditions of old jazz standards by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, among others.

SPAN, United States Information Service.

ERICKA OVETTE EVOCA LA EDAD DE ORO DEL JAZZ (HOY Ecuador, sabado 26 de abril de 2003)

Ericka Ovette cumplio con la promesa que hizo al inciar el recital de jazz en el teatro Bolivar, el jueves por la noche: puso el alma en cada una de sus interpretaciones, junto al guitarrista Paul Pieper.

Sin duda, otro tipo de jazz al que estamos acostumbrados, sobre todo por el numero de musicos e instrumentos, pero que fue seguido con atencion por los seguidores de este genero musical, que en esta ocasion no fueron muchos como se hubiera esperado, sobre todo por la calidad de los interpretes.

Ericka Ovette, a ratos en perfecto espanol, conto brevemente sus experiencias sobre sus presentaciones en muchos paises, lo que hizo que se produjera esa conexion magica entre la artista y los espectadores.

Puso especial enfasis en el tema El deseo del corazon. Antes de cantarlo sostuvo que en cuestiones del corazon "es mejor tomar el riesgo antes que nunca tratar".

Su voz muy caracteristica evoca a las clasicas del jazz. Por eso es conocida como estilista del genero en la tradicion de las grandes cantantes de la edad de oro del jazz de los anos cuaranta y cincuenta del siglo pasado. (JZ)