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“Her album covers suggest high, jazz-diva glamour - you’d almost want to use an old fashioned word like “swanky” to describe the Gershwin-era sensibility at work. Her voice has it, too, curling out like a memory of smoke-and-martini-fuelled cocktail parties, though sometimes transforming itself into a claim on all that is blithe and innocent. “~Gerald Hannon, Toronto Life

“The chanteuse comes equipped with a sense of self; the doll-eyed blonde could never be taken for naïve ingénue” Jacquelyn Francis, FASHION Magazine

“Her tight, new 13-song collection-show-cases her vocal talent as much as her fine ear for material” Jacquelyn Francis, FASHION Magazine

“Sophie Milman smoulders on Make Someone Happy.....a classic jazz voice that evokes smoky lounges, softly clinking glasses and the cool of the night.”
~NPR Weekend Edition 10.06.07

"Not the next Ella or Sarah but the first Sophie Milman...she is one of a kind."
~ Don Heckman, LA Times

“When we spoke, what was evident was that this young woman had a great head on her shoulders and had already gained wisdom far beyond her years. What was also evident was that Sophie Milman was in this for the long haul- whatever it takes.”
~ Jamie Cosnowsky, Jazz Improv, NY

“Milman's second is a show of strength…rich tone and teasingly light vibrato underscore the easy fluidity of her phrasing” ~ Globe & Mail

“her already confident delivery is even more assured, her new maturity underscored in a well-chosen, eclectic program” ~ Toronto Star

“The 24-year-old, widely tipped locally as the next major jazz artost to emerge from Canada” ~ Billboard Magazine

“Petite bombshell Sophie Milman is well on her way to becoming an international
star” ~ METRO

“Canada’s Hot Young Jazz Act” ~ HELLO Magazine
"(Sophie Milman sings sublimely and she does sultry with impeccable, classy style" ~ Q Magazine

"Confident, crisp, seductive voice" ~ CJN
- Linus


"Sophie's NPR Show with Scott Simon"

Weekend Edition Saturday, October 6, 2007 - Sophie Milman has a classic jazz voice that evokes smoky lounges, softly clinking glasses and the cool of the night.

Canada is her home now, but she was born in a village of Russia's Ural Mountains and raised in Israel before moving to Toronto as a teenager.

Only a few years later, she has just released her second CD.

Make Someone Happy contains her interpretations of many jazz standards, but also includes some surprising choices.
- NPR


"Whatever It Takes"

"When we spoke, what was evident was that this young woman had a great head on her shoulders and had already gained wisdom far beyond her years. What was also evident was that Sophie Milman was in this for the long haul- whatever it takes."
~ Jamie Cosnowsky, Jazz Improv, NY - Jazz Improv


"Singer Sophie Milman Thinks 'Green'"

Blond, blue-eyed Sophie Milman poses glamorously in a strapless black gown on the cover of her new album, "Make Someone Happy." Like many of the dozens of others in the revitalized genre of jazz singing, she is young (24), attractive and eager to break out of the crowd. - Los Angeles Times


"From Russia (Via Canada) With Jazz and Sophie Milman"

Jazz vocalist Sophie Milman reckons her sophomore album reflects "all of the turbulence, transformations and drama" in her life. The 24-year-old, widely tipped locally as the next major jazz artist to emerge from Canada, was born in Ufa, Russia�on the slopes of the Ural Mountains�but her family immigrated to Haifa, Israel, when she was 7. Toronto-based Linus Entertainment released Milman's self-titled debut in Canada in 2004.
- Billboard


Discography

Sophie Milman
Oct 12, 2004
Linus

Live at The Winter Garden Theatre
Feb 20, 2007
Linus

Make Someone Happy
Jun 19, 2007
Linus

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Sophie’s story continues to inspire. After emigrating from Russia to Israel with her family at the tender age of 7, then moving again at 16 to seek a new life in Canada, the transition from bookish teenager to glamorous jazz ingénue was perhaps unlikely. It was the offer of a recording contract after just three or four professional singing engagements that touched off a series of events that soon found this beautiful, multilingual talent gracing the cover of Voir, Klublife, Wholenote, and The Globe & Mail. She was featured in publications across the globe as well including Hello!, Q, Jazz Times, Elle Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and appearing on Entertainment Tonight, CBC, CTV, the BBC, BET Jazz, NPR, and several NBC and Fox affiliates across the U.S.