MAROJU PRODUCTIONS
Bovenover 79, 1025 JJ Amsterdam
Nederland
Tel.:00/31/20/6344432, e-mail: g.a.moss@chello.nl
www.mariettebodier.nl



About The Artist:

At the tender age of sixteen Mariette Bodier already performed with a rock and roll band in Deventer where she spent her childhood.
In Amsterdam she studied voice, presentation and performance with the renown vocal coach BEP OGTEROB. She furthermore was enrolled in the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam for two years after which she left Holland to work as a singer in Inter-Continental and Hilton Hotels in a.o. Amsterdam, Paris, Istanbul, Kabul and Tehran.
In 1979 she went to the United States with her former husband, the well-known American poet Lee Bridges with whom she organized jazz and blues extravaganzas in a.o. The Doelen Concert Hall in Rotterdam and The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with famous artists like Kenny Clark, Memphis Slim, Kenny Drew, Art Taylor, Johnny Griffin.
In New York Mariette performed in super clubs like f.i. Trude Heller's, The Jazz Forum, Old Westbury Gardens, The Monsignore II, The Vista International Hotel, she appeared in television programs like The Joe Franklin Show, WOR/TV, radio shows and recorded in Radio City Music Hall Sound Studios her first LP, GOING PLACES, with jazz musicians like Marion Brown (saxophone) and Steve Mc Call (percussion).
BACKSTAGE wrote about her debut-album: '....album contains a mix of jazz oriented tunes and ballads with a Gallic flavor that shows Bodier's technique and style to good advantage: and,: '...jazz vocalist with a rich sound works traditional/cabaret route despite normally experimental sidemen like Steve Mc Call and Marion Brown.'
In 1984 Mariette moved to Ibiza with her second husband where she a.o. performed in The Ibiza Sun Festival of 1987. She also performed regularly on the island and appeared in radio programs.
Since two years Mariette is back in her beloved Amsterdam where she released her cd FRACTAL ENERGY in April 2002, recorded in Tapeless Studio, Amsterdam with accompaniment of BABAK AMIRI and RONALD GANS.
In November 2003 Mariette's album MI GUSTO was released, recorded in Oaxaca, Oax., Mexico with
ALFONSO ROBLES, LEONEL DIAZ, LOS TROVADOS and three tracks from her LP GOING
PLACES which was recorded in RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SOUND STUDIOS in Manhattan, NY, USA.
FRACTAL ENERGY and MI GUSTO were also released in SOUTH KOREA by MUSIC RESEARCH CORPORATION, SEOUL.

In March 2005 Mariette's latest cd, GOING EASY, was released. It's an album with sweet bossa novas and smooth sambas, recorded in LA PARROQUIA, Oaxaca, Oax., Mexico with EDUARDO UGALDE and LEONEL DIAZ.



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	I NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU Mariette wrote this song in 1978, music & lyrics, and audiences always have expressed their love for it.		Jazz Ballad
	LA VIE EN ROSE La Vie En Rose was written by Edith Piaf, that marvelous singer of France. It's lovely and timeless		Latin Jazz

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