First Listen: Sugar Joans finds something "Perfect"

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    (August 19, 2020) Sugar Joans wowed fans and the celebrity judges during her performances on season seven of The Voice. Joans impressed with her hutzpah by taking on two songs connected with legends, “Say A Little Prayer” and “Love on Top.”

    Joans is also a performer determined to make it on the music business by dint of her own talent rather than by relying on familial connections. Joans is the daughter of Joe Pizzulo, a singer’s singer who has been making a mark in the music business for more than five decades. Pizzulo is best known for his duet with Leeza Miller on the Sergio Mendes song “Never Gonna Let You Go,” a Top Five hit in 1983.

    (August 19, 2020) Sugar Joans wowed fans and the celebrity judges during her performances on season seven of The Voice. Joans impressed with her hutzpah by taking on two songs connected with legends, “Say A Little Prayer” and “Love on Top.”

    Joans is also a performer determined to make it on the music business by dint of her own talent rather than by relying on familial connections. Joans is the daughter of Joe Pizzulo, a singer’s singer who has been making a mark in the music business for more than five decades. Pizzulo is best known for his duet with Leeza Miller on the Sergio Mendes song “Never Gonna Let You Go,” a Top Five hit in 1983.

    Joans has worked with Mendes, Pharrell Williams and Billie Ellish, just to name a few, and she’s been a singer on film soundtracks, such as Trolls 2. Now she is stepping out with her new single, “Perfect.” The track is a mid-tempo love song that finds Joans expressing how the object of her desire checks of all the boxes.

    “Perfect,” fits squarely within the contemporary R&B framework with its percussive trap music 808 drums and Joans sharing vocal space with a hip-hop artist. Joans moves freely within the room that the sparse arrangement allows, traveling easily between the staccato flow that falls within that grey area between rap and sung vocals but also showing the range that won her so many fans during her run on The Voice. Check out “Perfect” here.

    By Howard Dukes

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