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MARY CLEERE HARAN...

marycleere.jpg (19369 bytes)"....funny, touching, brainy, breathlessly exhilarating....no longer an acclaimed vocalist who is heading in the direction of Peggy Lee and Doris Day. She has very much arrived...."

Rex Reed, New York Observer

"....The best cabaret singer of her generation or, come to think of it, the one before...."

Gary Giddins, Village Voice

"....Her singing is quite simply, extraordinary ...conjures up Ella Fitzgerald...."

Steve Sanders, Hollywood Reporter

"...The hottest singer of her generation...as long as there are new young singers like her, good music and good singing will not only survive, they will thrive...."

Bob Harrington, New York Post

"....Pipes, charm and taste abundant....luminous, delicate."

Zimmerman, Daily Variety

"....Sounds a little like a mid-1940s Doris Day, looks somewhat like Myrna Loy crossed with Rita Hayworth and writes her own brilliant patter in which she sounds like a warm-hearted contemporary version of Dorothy Parker...."

Stephen Holden, New York Times

"....One of the wittiest performers to ever interrupt a punch line with a song....is to cabaret singing what Wolfgang Puck is to pizza...."

Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times

"....Tones that originate somewhere between her pelvis and her kneecaps that make you believe. Inky midnight blue, it's a voice to get lost in...."

Pamela Bloom, 7 Days

"....Haran sings the songs of the era as if they'd just been written this afternoon....No one can get more good, unsentimental juice out of a love song than she can, or turn the mood around more sharply and charmingly with a wisecrack, or a funny story about bilocation in two decades...."

Wilfred Sheed, Vanity Fair

"....Haran is out of this world; there's no other way to put it. Her voice is clear and true, with just a hint of huskiness; her sense of humor is abundant; her choice of material is unerringly tasteful and apt...."

Jonathan Yardly, Washington Post

"....A singer of startling versitility, Haran posesses a voice that is a prism from American's golden age of song....."

Sam Wood, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Mary Cleere Haran is more than a singer. She's an experience...."

Patricia Smith, Chicago Sun-Times

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