Yodajazz with Octavia St Laurent "Forever"

[yodajazz]

I never met her. I just put some music behind her singing. I found a vid of Octavia St. Laurent singing an original song called “Forever”. She recorded it without any musical instruments, or acapella in musical terms. I harmonized the melody by putting chords and rhythm behind it. It was some work doing this, but it was fun and I learned some things. I did have to change some of her melody notes to match the chords. I also had to cut up the phrases so her vocal would be in time with the rhythm. Right click to download. It's less that 3 MB and it's jazzy.

http://www.mediamax.com/gzach/Hosted/Forever4mix.mp3

I did this without permission at home. Just think of what people could accomplish if they co-operated with collaboration. If anyone here knows her, I would be interested to know what she thinks of the music, or how many curse words she knows.

Here are some screen shots from the video.

[peggygee]

I liked your arrangement. It's kinda Brazilian jazz infused.
Her voice reminds me of a young Eartha Kitt for some reason.

I have downloaded it to my smartphone.

8)

[wombat33]

Cool Stuff Yoda.

I am loving the music more than her voice. I agree with Peggy. Similar to miss Kitt.

I like the latin jazz (if I am right) style of music.

Thanks

[Detroit]

I liked it, and Octavia I will always love you. I wish we had married after the motocycle ride.

[yodajazz]

I decided to revisit the song today. I remembered that I had a new studio plugin called "Auto Tune" by Antares, that could help with the pitch issues. So I remixed the music and vocal. The track is not perfect, but it did help.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6119728041fe4904/

The MP3 link remains active until there are no downloads for 90 days.

So this is now a tribute to Octavia, in her own voice and words. "Forever".

[Coroner]

I´d call this Brazilian Smooth Jazz. I heard something similar in Brazilian TS porn. :lol: (don´t get me wrong, yoda)

But it´s a nice tribute, yoda. She passed away recently.

[BrendaQG]

I love what you did with this. It's a really smooth sound. And of course her singing was tight.

[yodajazz]

I love what you did with this. It's a really smooth sound. And of course her singing was tight.

Thanks and by the way, I'll be playing at The Chicago Blues Festival on the Gibson Guitars Crossroads Stage from 3:30 to 5:00pm this Saturday June 13th.

[thx1138]

Good one.