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angel la canfora

singer-songwriter

Angel’s passion for music started as a child, when her musician father first thrust a guitar in her hands. She was immediately hooked and wrote her first song at age 12 and also took up piano and guitar. As a teenager, she enrolled in the Antmann School of Music, with a concentration in classical guitar. When she wasn’t there, she was active in her high school's music program and played in rock bands after hours. At age 19, she even found herself managing a record store in Westminster, California. In her 20s, she was a member of various bands and performed all over the U.S. & U.K.

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In 2002, Angel played an open mic night at McCabe's Guitar Shoppe in Santa Monica and won free recording time with Grammy-winning producer, Bob Wayne. She enlisted the help of L.A. based bluegrass band, Desert Sage, to back her up and the ensuing sessions resulted in the recording of 5 of her original tunes, which have yet to be officially released.

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Angel's songs can be classified as melancholic, sometimes wistful, acoustic, folk-pop.  She has written several hundred songs to date and the majority of her recordings feature her handling all the instruments (guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards, mandolin, harmonica). Her musical heroes include Bob Dylan, Beck, Wilco, Robyn Hitchcock, R.E.M., Blondie, Teenage Fanclub and Patti Smith. Her music is available at iTunes, Spotify, CD Baby and You Tube.

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Angel is presently on musical hiatus, while she concentrates on her art and mounting future exhibitions. 

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“She's a great guitarist, and the music itself has a nice solemn feel to it. You can sense that she has a love for song making, every aspect of it, and it shines through.”

Nathan Ganley - 411 Mania

LINKS TO ANGEL'S MUSIC

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“There's such sadness in these songs--it's in Angel's voice, I think, and is present even when the lyrics are busy undercutting it, as they do most obviously in the very, very funny songs DC Drivers and The Hairdresser. It's not a doom-laden sadness, though, or a self-pitying one; it's a melancholy that feels like a sort of wisdom, a knowledge of the world's weight, and a refusal to pretend or lie or prettify. Hello Cruel World, Blackhole, Haunted: these are very honest songs, delivered to us with touching purity, the sort of music that can seep into you and alter your emotional equilibrium, in the same way that certain types of weather can. Great stuff from a truly talented musician.....”

Scott B. Smith, best-selling author via CD Baby

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