{"product_id":"jody-sternberg_sea-of-love-cd_2026_lad","title":"Sea Of Love","description":"It is a path that is anything but academic—bumpy, winding, downward-sloping, rich with a thousand and one twists and turns—that Jody Sternberg has followed to finally offer us today, with Sea of Love, her true first solo album. A work in her own image: sincere, generous, deeply modest and delightfully eclectic—with total artistic integrity. Born in Australia at the turn of the 1970s to immigrant parents—a Thai mother and a British Ashkenazi Jewish father—little Jody was only 15 years old with a few basics of the saxophone in her pocket when she decided to take the road less traveled and embark on a bohemian life as eventful as it was romantic. After four years in Japan surviving on odd jobs, she found herself at 22 on the benches of the prestigious Berklee College of Music to perfect her study of the instrument, which physical problems unfortunately prevented her from completing. After a brief stay in New York, she eventually ended up in the cosmopolitan Paris of the late 1990s, playing the saxophone in the metro and bars. Multiplying chance encounters at jam sessions, she briefly joined the all-female brass band Les Pepitas, played with the funk band Juan Rozoff (AbalorladaKor!), and, increasingly sought after for the warmth and soulful sensuality of her voice, caught the attention of artists like the Marathonians (A Tropical Soul Adventure) and Arthur H (Négresse blanche). In 2005 came a first consecration: the British trip-hop band Morcheeba spotted her and invited her to replace their star singer for the world tour of the album The Antidote (on which she also co-wrote the single Wonders Never Cease). Success was there, but Jody had other ambitions and ended this collaboration to begin developing a more personal repertoire mixing jazz standards, French songs, and original compositions. While she continued to occasionally participate in fundamentally crossover projects (like Nouvelle Vague or Marc Collin's Hollywood Mon Amour), Jody increasingly frequented the jazz clubs of the capital and in 2013 recorded a duo session with legendary pianist Alain Jean-Marie, which unfortunately remained in demo form for a long time. Forced to urgently return to Australia to be near her sick father, Jody Sternberg put her career on hold for many years, only returning to France at the turn of the 2020s to try to patiently pick things up where she had left off. In 2022 she met pianist and trumpeter David Lewis (co-founder of the famous band Paris Combo) who, with Pierre Darmon of Bonsaï Music, helped her finally publish, in June 2023, under the title Castles in the Sand, her magnificent duo album with Alain Jean-Marie, an album proudly acclaimed by critics (4T Télérama). From that date onward, she also found her way back to clubs and studios, began collaborations (Le grand Michel by Giovanni Ceccarelli \u0026amp; Ferruccio Spinetti around the music of Michel Legrand; Back to Bach by Jean-Baptiste Loussier in an electro-pop vein) and co-wrote with David Lewis the arrangements for a new show conceived around the repertoire of the iconic African-American singer Eartha Kitt (To Eartha With Love). Finally recognized by critics, acclaimed by the public, surrounded for the first time by a true family of musicians—Jody Sternberg, in the mid-2020s, truly appears in full artistic maturity. It is at this decisive moment in her career that the singer today releases with Sea of Love a first completely personal album where, as if by miracle, all the gains from this rich, free, and atypical journey crystallize.","brand":"Jody Sternberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483638997336,"sku":null,"price":23872924.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/jody-sternberg_sea-of-love-cd_2026_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}