DIVAS

Anne Kerry Ford America’s Cabaret Sweet Princess

By Maximillien de Lafayette lafayette@monthlyherald.com

Anne Kerry Ford: A sparkling soprano, a superb actress, leading star of America’s best theatrical plays and musicals, a Broadway stage sensation with wit, humor and philosophical depth, American Cabaret sweet princess and shining star, an outstanding recording artist, a philosopher and an artist bigger than the world we live in!! Anne Kerry Ford had her ups and downs and her share of terrible experiences and disappointments in the world of art but, she remained the ultimate warrior, the art trooper and Cabaret ambassador to the world, the perfect lady and ever glowing star… Well spoken, articulate, educated, multi-dimensional, formidably trained, experienced and blessed with unsurpassed talent and captivating beauty, Anne Kerry Ford has been involved and excelled in about every imaginable artistic endeavors including but not limited to TV soap operas, Broadway stage productions, motion pictures, American and world theater performances, Europe theatrical tours, art world events and performances, big time recordings, singing, Cabaret acts, jazz, blues and American standards, you name it…She did it all with beauty, refinement, class, dignity and perfection!! There is an aura of magic and fatal attraction around Anne Kerry Ford; this shy, rebellious, mystic, avant-garde, activist, delightful, mesmerizing star! She is a blend of the best of Hollywood’s vanished golden era, the sublime era of America’s greatest music epoch and today’s glitzy art platforms. She represents the original, the authentic, the traditional American musical beauty and greatness…the music that immortalized Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin and the greatest American composers.

Yet, in her representation of the traditional American music treasures, Anne Kerry Ford took the liberty to be innovative, to be a daring explorer of new musical frontiers without frontiers…she took the liberty to incorporate and cement her own style, personality, taste, concept, visions and………………perhaps, simply perhaps,  she added a new definition, a new aspect, a new character, a new identity, a new face and a new interpretation to  traditional  American musical treasures and Cabaret standards…perhaps, she is not exclusively and uniquely the only responsible guilty musical visionary of this revolutionary creation, for I have tendency to believe that her genius husband has to do something with it. When Anne Kerry Ford sings an American Standard, a Cabaret ballade or a Cabaret Torch Song, you feel right away the innovative magical addition and innovation she brought to the perimeter and spectrum of American golden era music and Cabaret songs. May be, it is the musical arrangements, may be it is the sounds she incorporated in her songs, maybe the eloquently and secretly hidden Jazz and Blues influences, maybe the perfect harmony and unification between Anne Kerry Ford’s voice, persona, multi-dimensional talents, her quest for excellence, her character, her presence on stage, her respect for traditional aesthetics and sacred beauty of American traditional standards, her intimate, emotional and personal involvement with every musical note and finally her understanding of new trends and new needs in today’s world of music. May be, her creative genius and artistic superiority are the cause-effect of all those elements and factors, and maybe is just the opposite. In both instances, the effect of her voice on us transcends the time and the space that surround us, for her voice is intelligent, mature, ageless, timeless, warm, rich, evocative, expressive divinely beautiful and this is what defines the “Perfect Voice” which survives destiny, fate, the good and the bad times. Anne Kerry Ford’s legacy and mesmerizing voice will live for ever, as long as humanity remained interested in arts and as long as there are recording studios, stages, Cabarets, national archives and loyalty to beauty and perfection… And now, let’s talk to this sweet Diva of American Cabaret…

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