Nicola Milan

Music Genre: Jazz

…Sophisticated, sensual and blissfully romantic, Nicola Milan’s music represents a new sound in the Australasian jazz landscape. This Australian vocalist, songwriter and multi instrumentalist has a three and a half octave range and captivates with her velvety, warm vocals and tempting, thought provoking melodies…

From the gentle sway of the bossa-nova to soaring ballads, Nicola’s music is passionate and enriched with a web of emotive lyrical content over a broad palette of improvisation.

“I write the lyrics and melody at the same time. It starts with an emotion and the song builds itself from there” Nicola says of her songwriting methods. It has been noticed how well crafted her work is; beautiful phrases and skilled arrangements which immerse the listener in the message of each story.

“People have always commented on how much they like my singing voice, which is great, but now they are starting to comment on my songwriting which is what really makes me happy”. After the release of her debut EP ‘Little Rendezvous’ in November 2011, Nicola’s work received national radio play and her single “The Chapter You Wrote In My Life” placed in the top ten for the 2011 Australian Songwriting Competition run by the Australian Songwriters Association.

In 2009, Nicola’s single “Take Your Chances” featured in the movie length feature film “The Kittens of Woodlake” and in 2010 she wrote the theme song for the popular web series “Flatmates”. In 2011 Nicola performed for the United Nation’s “UN Women” and lent her vocals to Sugar Blue Burlesque’s“Black Market Cabaret”. She performed at festivals including the Fremantle Festival, World Championship Festival in Western Australia and at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival in November 2012.

Nicola is now working on writing new material for her first full length album “Forbidden Moments” which will be released in 2013 and she plans to tour Australia and the USA shortly after.

Nicola is also an award winning cartoonist, published author and poet. In the 2011 Rotary Cartoon Awards “Women on the World” competition Nicola took out an award for her cartoon about women and the glass ceiling. 2012 saw Nicola complete a publicity tour in the UK for her new book “Monster in Law: A Survival Guide” co-authored with Judy Davies and published by Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers, UK. Nicola has also competed in the Australian Poetry Slam Competition for poets and writers that perform their work.

Biographical information courtesy of Nicola Milan website

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