Laura’s way is the storyteller’s. As the storyteller, she engages and guides and gently dramatizes. The listener is at once in the listener’s circle around the storyteller. The treat is in how easy it is to be in the song’s world because it is just that kind of world creation and sweet animation that Laura does with a song.
The song becomes a place to be inside of and explore and a place to have at an adventure. The influences are understandable, greats like Carmen McCrae, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn and Barbara Streisand, and yet with so much substance and essence in that list Laura’s voice, truly influenced, is her very own. She has given her own signature to the Grace of the influences. Your ear hears purity and a fearlessness as Anglade is not afraid to be exposed out in front of her accompaniment.
She presents a vocalist-artistry of many colors and proudly carries those colors to where color can be heard.