LUA HADAR, vocalist

“Her smile enchants, as delightful as her stage presence and well-balanced song selection. She really sells it ... in “Undecided” … gloriously exotic “Nature Boy”… Hadar is a triple threat: comedian, chanteuse (singer) and raconteuse (storyteller). … she has a gracious ease before her audience as well as a facility for perfect patter between numbers. She especially thrives when selling a song with a kooky character as well as when crooning those slow romantic melodies. Tremendous!”                                                          – Tom Kelly, San Francisco Bay Times

As a soloist and founding member of The Kitchenettes vocal trio, Lua Hadar has performed across North America and Europe, including San Francisco’s Empire Plush Room and Napa’s Copia. Since 2004, she has been a performer and “producer-in-residence” at San Francisco’s famous beat-generation nightclub, The Purple Onion.

Both chanteuse and comedienne, Lua trained in her native New York at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater and also in master classes at the Metropolitan Opera, She bends her rich and agile voice around original material, jazz standards and show tunes with power and grace. Dubbed “the Harpo Marx of Cabaret” by esteemed San Francisco theatre and opera director, Robert Weinapple, Lua is known and loved for her wacky and witty comedy as she is for her intimate ballads.

 
It's About Time

Backed up by a sensational jazz trio comprised of pianist/music director Jason Martineau, bassist John Wiitala and drummer David Rokeach, her new album It’s about Time includes several songs in their recording premieres. Lua makes exuberant and deeply felt musical commentary on life, loss and love in this recording, whose songs are the centerpiece of her new show It’s About Time, Already!

To learn more about Lua, log onto www.luahadar.com