Julia Fordham

Julia Fordham's voice is a deep, warm instrument, rich with deliberation. Her dark alto is as
thick and androgynous as Alison Moyet's, but she doles it out smoothly in a cool jazz style
reminiscent of Sade and informs it with a self-conscious ambition suggesting Joni Mitchell.
Of these, Mitchell is the more direct influence. Many of the songs on the British singer's
debut LP unmistakably echo both the lushly exotic arrangements and the basic j... More >