Singer Cherilyn Evans will celebrate the release of her debut CD Truly Loved with a gig from 8 p.m. to midnight next Friday, May 13, at Cookie's Jazz and More in Webster Groves.
I had the pleasure of working with Cheri a few years back in one of the unnamed cover bands briefly mentioned in the biography on her site. (The name of the band will remain undisclosed, to protect both the innocent and the guilty.) Although the material in that particular group was not well suited to her voice, I could tell then she had considerable talent, and just needed the right vehicle or context for it. (The singer she replaced was a big-voiced belter in the Aretha Franklin mode, while Cheri has a lighter, more supple voice, reminding me a bit of Nancy Wilson or pop-jazz singer Sade.)
Apparently, she's now found a more fitting combination of musicians and material, and though I have yet to hear any of the CD - the longish .wav file samples downloadable from her site kept timing out my poor dial-up connection - I'm abandoning journalistic objectivity for the moment and rooting for it to be good.
Cheri and her husband Jasper are two extremely nice people, and the fact that she's had to overcome cancer (while still very young) in order to continue her performing career shows that she's tough-minded as well as talented. I hope her CD release party is a big success and the record sells a lot of copies.
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