One of the top Brazilian jazz singers based in Kansas City, Angela Hagenbach has thus far released two strong recordings on the Amazon label. Hagenbach grew up in a musical family; her father was a saxophonist and her mother a pianist. The seventh of eight children, she played trombone for seven years. She also worked as a model, played keyboards and sang in a top 40 band. In 1989 she discovered Sarah Vaughan and immediately switched to jazz singing. A year later Hagenbach began working regularly as a solo performer at Kansas City's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, a gig that lasted four years. She has also appeared at several musical festivals. Angela Hagenbach's ability to both swing high-quality standards and to sing with sensitivity in Portuguese is well displayed on her Come Fly With Me and Feel The Magic recordings. ~ Scott Yanow