ROSE ROBBINS: Close Your Eyes

Rose Robbins

Close Your Eyes

© 2005 Rose Robbins (634479225741)

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"Close Your Eyes" is a stunningly soulful collection of jazz tunes, mellow pop and gentle acoustic numbers from singer/songwriter Rose Robbins.

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Singer/songwriter Rose Robbins brings a new sound to the world of music; a stunning mix of elegant piano playing, soulful, smoky vocals, and a tender, evocative songwriting style.

Best known for her emotional first single, "Luminous", released in 2003 and winner of "Best Song of 2004" at the International Online Music Awards, Rose released her first full-length CD, "Close Your Eyes" in the fall of 2006.

In the fall of 2003, Rose released her first single, "Luminous", which was played on Internet radio stations all over the US and in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as well. "Luminous" went on to win "Best Song of 2004" at the International Online Music Awards, and Rose was nominated for "Best Female Vocalist" at the IOMAs as well.

In late 2004, Rose released her second single, "Whisper", while working on recording her full-length debut CD, "Close Your Eyes". "Whisper" went straight to the top of the Jazz charts at many online music distributors, including Soundclick, Broadjam, and Besonic.com.

"Whisper" then caught the attention of 20Max Films, an independent film company in Venice Beach, California, and was chosen for use in the movie "Monkey Love".
"Monkey Love" is a quirky romantic comedy featuring Amy Stewart, Jeremy Renner, and Seamus Dever, and "Whisper" creates a gentle, misty atmosphere at a sweet moment in the film. This movie is now out on video - check the video store near you!

Rose has joined forces with producer David Tucker and has begun work on her new CD, "RAIN". Mr. Tucker has put together a dream team of musicians, hand-picked to fit Rose's passionate, elegant musical style, and they were in the studio during the winter of '05/'06. The title track "RAIN" was released as a single in November of 2007.

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Rose's Biography....

Raised on a farm in the Pacific Northwest, Rose spent her childhood immersed in the classical composers, listening for hours to Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Her favorite album was "Julian Bream Plays Bach", and she learned bits and pieces of Bach Preludes by ear on her classical guitar. When she was eleven, her family bought a piano, and soon after that, Rose bought her first record of piano music, a second-hand copy of Mozart's C Major Piano Concerto. She learned the whole slow movement by memory, from listening to the record over and over. Her compositions, during these years, were strictly classical, string quartets and sonatas that were scribbled in pencil over any available piece of paper.
In her teens, Rose began to compose songs with words. Her own deep, smoky voice sounded "wrong" to her - she'd heard that girls are supposed to sing high - so she contented herself with writing songs for other girls to sing.

It wasn't till the age of twenty-three, with close to fifty songs already written, that Rose performed a song she'd written in public. The sound of her voice over a microphone stunned her, and her audience's immediate response was her confirmation - she was a singer after all!

Currently, Rose lives in Idaho with her family, and has been composing and performing music throughout the Northwest.

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  • Rose Robbins
    author: Cathy Buckwalter

    I love really really good cabaret singers, Andrea Marcovicci,Diana Krall,Sophie Milman, and long-time singer, Jane Oliver, for example...and now Rose Robbins!...she is unique, wonderful piano, and unusual songs!I have found another incredible artist to add to my collection...Bob Bidinotto raved about Rose and I concur. Thank you, Bob, and thank you CD Baby for taking chances on these undiscovered and marvelous artists.

  • A stunning collection of instant classics
    author: Robert Bidinotto, Editor, The New Individualist

    Few songwriters can compose truly compelling melodies. Fewer can write lyrics that rise to the level of poetry. Far fewer can wed memorable melodies to haunting lyrics. Fewer still can sing their own compositions -- let alone with style, flair, and conviction. And among this elite group of songwriter-singers, only a handful can also accompany themselves instrumentally with consummate skill. But how many can do it all? Rose Robbins is one of the few, as she demonstrates on her inaugural CD, "Close Your Eyes." She composes unforgettable melodies. Writes lyrics rich in metaphor and exuding passion. Accompanies herself brilliantly on piano, keyboards, and guitar while singing exquisitely, elegantly. On this collection you'll hear first-rate jazz, rock, blues, R&B, folk, torch songs, ditties of impish whimsy, even the occasional spiritual. But the best are Rose Robbins's enchanting love songs: exuberant in their celebration of newfound passion, heartbreaking in their despair about lost love. Songs like "Blue Sky," "Stained Glass Window," and "Pale Yellow Rose" are the stuff of classics -- songs that grab you by the throat and refuse to let go. And she serves them up in a silky, sultry, sexy voice -- a voice that goes down as sweet and smooth as a mixture of whiskey and honey -- a voice that sometimes evokes Diana Krall, sometimes Bette Midler...except that she's better than either. In a few passages of "Whisper," I could even swear that she was channeling Karen Carpenter. That the world has not yet beaten a path to this woman's door is proof that we do not live in a just world. But I'll make a safe prediction: Rose Robbins is not destined to remain in relative obscurity. So when you buy "Close Your Eyes" today, know that you will soon possess a future collector's item. And while you're at it, buy copies of the CD as Christmas presents. Your friends and family will love you for it.

  • A once-in-a-lifetime voice, destined for greatness.
    author: Ray Thursby

    Though perhaps best-known for Luminous, Rose Robbins's new CD contains several songs of equal or greater power -- Whisper, Blue Sky and Falling Down at the top of the list -- and is a wonderful showcase for an incredible talent. Anyone who is moved by a flawless voice singing heartfelt lyrics and effective melodies needs to own this disc, and play it again and again. It's simply impossible to be unmoved by the emotions in these 11 tracks. Rose Robbins's voice moves effortlessly between desire, longing, pain and humor; she brings beauty out of sadness, and her love songs suggest a depth of passion we would all love to experience. One might wish for the appropriate full orchestra behind her in place of the backup musicians heard here, more adventurous arranging, and some forays into the extensive world of existing popular and "standard" music, but those are minor quibbles, and only make me eager to hear the many recordings I expect will be forthcoming in future. Some performers go a lifetime without producing a recording comparable to Close Your Eyes. Rose Robbins starts at the top, and the only way she can go is up.

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