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"Basement Concert Review"

The Basement 15 March 1999

The Basement crowd was quite sizeable for a Monday and adamant that there was only one reason for them to be there. That reason was well and truly acknowledged when this nouveau-jazz diva emerged. Resplendent in an embossed-white evening gown, Rebecca Rennie ‘as nervous as’ right the way up to the opening of tonight’s show. All nerves were dispelled, though, when the audience fairly erupted to a level normally reserved for well-known and well-established acts as she took the stage! While the audience were just as many family and friends as supporters, they had all shelled out their hard-earned to see FREYjA’s Basement debut and were as enraptured as a polite jazz-crowd is allowed to be at the sight and sound of this jazz/ Latin set penned by players and colleagues both onstage and in the cheering audience.
Stand-out tunes of the first set included the opener The Castle, Titania’s Charm, Without a Trace and the non-acoustic version of the EP closer Take the Child. I was only able to stay for that set, which is more the pity because that simply was not enough to quench my wont of more of this emergingly popular artist! Lovers of jazz from traditional Holliday to the new West Coast style will find FREYjA just what they have been lacking locally for far too long! PG(Jacky)Gleeson
- Jacky Gleeson "Review"


Discography

"FREYjA" EP (Bye Bye Angel wins Best Jazz Song Musicoz 2002)

"The Siren's Odyssey" (Magnolia wins Best Performance Musicoz 2002). 'The Magician' has much streaming & radio play (Australia)

"This Girl" recorded at Acousti in Paris to be released this year 2008.

She has two more collections of original songs currently in the studio

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Pianist/ songwriter/ poet FREYjA (aka Rebecca Rennie) has 3 albums released in Australia & Europe
She has performed at Montreux Jazz Festival, CMJ New York, Woodford Folk Festival, Bilboquet & Sunside Paris, New York, London, Rome & many more

Her influences are vast ranging - Ricki Lee Jones, Everything But the Girl (early acoustic work), Tom Waits, Astrid Gilberto, Beck, Jacques Brel & JS Bach!

Having trained at NIDA (Australia's equivalent of RADA) for 3 years & worked in Australian theatre & television industry for many years has helped hone FREYjA's entrancing stage skills. She is compellingly sexy on stage with the nuances of a little girl

FREYjA won two Musicoz awards in 2002 for two songs Best Jazz Song & Best Performance Awards

In 2004 FREYjA sang the Marseillaise infront of 47,000 people at Stadium Australia & live telecast to millions worldwide.

She is currently performing/composing/recording albums number 4 & 5 in Paris & London with producer Mykey T