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English: Linda Valori can sing anything with flair and grace. She’s gifted with great range, a gorgeous sound and precise, yet fluid delivery. She also has another special quality that can’t be learned: A truly soulful sensibility. Though she’s sung pop, opera and jazz, Valori’s true loves are the blues and pure R&B - not the heavily produced style that now dominates urban radio, but the classic treasure trove of the past 70 years that’s influenced the core of all popular music. These musical preferences might seem strange for a native Italian, but Valori doesn’t see anything unusual about it. “It wasn’t me who chose to sing the blues,” Valori maintains. “The blues chose me! It has always been so natural. I tried a lot of other genres, but blues and R&B have always been my first love; they have always been a part of me.” That’s what the blues has always documented: the experiences, anguish, and hurt, but also the wit, humor and resilience of a people. While certainly born out of and steeped in the Black experience, skin color has never been the main determinant of who can really sing the blues - the blues are a truly human expression. They require the ability to communicate with honesty and authority. Valori clearly has that ability and has even used it in performing four times for two different Popes (Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI). For Linda, there’s no question that whatever she sings, she’s going to reach out and find the blues that exist there, and it doesn’t matter where she’s doing it, or who her audience is…. Anyone who loves music and the blues will immediately hear that Linda Valori sings with high energy and real passion. She’s not imitating anyone - the blues and R&B are as much the songs of her life as that of any American blues artist. Linda Valori is the real deal…