"This is a debut release? Charmaine Clamor has the vocal confidence and expressiveness of someone with 30 albums under her belt. What an astonishing debut. I'm already making a place in my collection for her next one.
Listen to her sing "Since I Fell for You" and you realize what they mean by "star quality." All I can say is wow!
"
A New Favorite
Herb | Hempstead, LI | 02/22/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Our local jazz radio show plays Charmaine frequently and I've fallen in love with her voice, which is very soulful and expressive. Everything she sings goes right to your heart. I think she is a remarkable artist. This CD highlights her way with a lyric. On a side note, the band members are very, very good and the arrangements are quite original. Over all a stunning debut."
Seductive
trevor swings | Dover | 02/18/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I heard this young lady on the radio and I was seduced by her voice, which reminds me of a slightly less husky Diana Krall. Charmaine somehow can be very sensual in her singing without being vulgar. There's a lot of emotion in her voice. I believe her when she sings about love. Favorite tracks on "Searching for the Soul" are Charmaine's reworking of the Glady's Knight classic "Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye" and the old standard "The Nearness of You," which puts Norah Jones to shame. Charmaine is a beautiful singer in many ways."
Soulful!
ArtSeeker | SoCal | 12/17/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"On her first album, Charmaine Clamor might claim to be "searching" for the soul, but there's no doubt that she's found it. From the opening lines of "Come Sunday" to the finale of "The Nearness of You" this extraordinary singer puts her special vocal sauce on a seriously soulful collection of classics. You might say she's "going to church" on this album, but nobody has ever been this sexy in a chapel.
Prediction: Like they said on NPR, she's going to be one the great ones."
Flipping for Charmaine
D. Chackler | New Jersey, USA | 07/24/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have been hearing Charmaine Clamor on the radio for some time now and always associated her with jazz standards, such as the ones she did on this album, "Searching for the Soul." There's some of that on her new album "Flippin' Out" -- check out her exceptionally sultry version of "Hadn't Anyone Until You." But now Clamor is giving us songs of her native culture, and you can hear in her beautiful voice a profound connection with the material. The lullaby she sings, for example, is a wonderfully healing performance. And what she does with "Be My Love" is something like genius. I've completely "flipped" for Charmaine. She's a major artist just coming into her own. Be sure to check out "Flippin' Out" if you dig this album!"