New Music Critique: Dawn Derow

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Contact: beatrice@empktmedia.com
Web: dawnderow.com
Seeking: Booking, Film/TV
Style: R&B, Adult Contemporary

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Derow was reviewed in our Live section recently, and so impressed was our writer with her genre-defying sound that we felt the time was right to explore further. If there’s a downside to enjoying Derow’s music outside of the live environment, it’s that this artist is very much a show-woman, in the classic sense. Clearly a student of musical theater, opera, and cabaret, the visual aspect is a key element to the Derow experience. To her immense credit, however, her voice conveys enough joy on “Everything’s Gonna Be All Right” and “On the Street Where You Live,” to see us right.