Sara Jane Ceccarelli

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SONG INFORMATION

NOTHING REALLY ENDS BEFORE WE DIE

Written by: Sara Jane Ceccarelli/Anne Truelsen Geertsen

Genre: pop
The song has been inspired to me by lyrics from my Danish Friend Anne Geertsen, that had perfomed with me for a year while living in Rome. We are both "archers" as we like to think, girls that constantly fight in their lives. Great and important "fights" for music, for love, for a better life both for us and the others. Always smiling. And in this fight we like to think that "nothing really ends before we die" and that there is always time to try again, create and make this world a better place.
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BE HUMAN

Written by: Sara Jane Ceccarelli/Anne Truelsen Geertsen

Genre: pop
This song has been inspired to me by lyrics written by my Danish friend Anne Truelsen Geertsen, with whom I have performed for a year in Rome while she was living here. I have added part of the lyrics and melody. It is about "being human", about letting ourselves be "dirty, messy" instead of constantly judging ourselves. We are both musicians, and females, and the music world it's sometimes really tough, so it is like constantly living like a soldier, administrating ourselves, achieving the best every day. But...we are just humans, and also who lives beside us is just human. So it is important to let it go...sometimes. Arrangment by Sara Jane Ceccarelli/Luigi Di Chiappari
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THE MAN WHO DREW BODIES IN THE WATER

Written by: Sara Jane Ceccarelli/Anne Truelsen Geertsen

Genre: pop
This song is dedicated to the great artist and friend Nicola Rotiroti. Nicola is a famous Italian painter (www.rotiroti.it) and the night I first met him I was very impressed by this man that had a "simple smile and spoke as a shy poet". Then I asked him what his work was about, and he was really embarrassed so a friend had to explain for him: he only drew bodies in the water. Amazing, huge paintings with these incredible big faces all deformed by the water. And then I wrote this song, without knowing anything else about him and he said "this song it's me". And now we are really close friends. Arrangement Sara Jane Ceccarelli/Luigi Di Chiappari
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Hometown: Rome, Italy

SONGWRITERS BIOGRAPHY

Italo-Canadian born in Gubbio (Italy) in 1981. She lives in Rome. Her father is a pianist and she began studying piano at 3 years old with Japanese teacher, Setzuko Murata. Along with adolescence came a refusal to play piano after 10 years of classical studies.
Sara Jane began singing just for fun at 16 and the rest is history!
She began performing in duo with her brother Paolo, guitarist and composer. The duo was initially inspired by Joe Pass & Ella Fitzgerald, as well as acoustic duo Tuck & Patty. They re-arranged and brought their own personal style to Jazz, Soul, Brazilian and International Pop classics performing at a number of important venues in Italy and abroad (Copenaghen Jazz Fest 2015).
In 2007, she joined the all-female vocal quartet “Le Core”, making it to the finals at the Musicultura Song Festival in 2009.
That same year she met Maestro Bruno De Franceschi who completely overturned her approach to music and body movement on stage. She widened her horizons to embrace the “musical theatre” as well being inspired by some of the greats, Ute Lemper, Milva, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, and Melina Mercouri.
In 2012, she began a course of studies and performances of music from various cultures. She sings in the original languages: Cape Verdean morna, the French chanson, Brazilian samba & choro, tango, Balkan popular music, Italian classics, and last but not l east Blues & Jazz. She sings in more than 10 different languages!

In 2014, she began performing with the MED FREE ORKESTRA (www.medfreeorkestra.com) and the NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF YOUNG JAZZ TALENTS, and she has been working on a number of musical theatre projects. She has participated to 4 re-acts of the Mozart "Flauto Magico" by the ORCHESTRA DI PIAZZA VITTORIO in the role of Pamina.

She is backing-vocalist in the album "Amore e Furto - De Gregori canta Bob Dylan" of one of the most famous Italian folk singers, released October 30, 2015. She is one of the dancers in the Missoni commercial directed by Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino.

Sara Jane is enrolled in the Jazz Course at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome. She studied voice with Cristina Zavalloni, Maria Pia De Vito and Eleonora Bruni. She teaches singing at Percentomusica (Rome), Massimo Moriconi music school director.

Her first album as a singer/songwriter “COLORS” will be released in 2016.

And she smiles at life.