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Written by NEXTnc staff reports
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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 RED, WHITE AND BLUES
Hear freedom ring with Tempa and the Tantrums soulful sound
By Erin Frustaci
Tempa Singer's earliest memory is of music. The Denver singer-songwriter vaguely remembers hearing music from her crib as a child.
Now, the professional musician is giving Colorado’s music scene something to remember.
Tempa and the Tantrums combines soulful blues and jazz with catchy zydeco and funk within its signature sound, a sound Fourth of July revellers in Civic Center Park will get a chance to hear.
“I took all the music I loved and mixed it all up,” Tempa said.
Though she’s inspired by legendary women of music like Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Koko Taylor, Diana Krall, Patsy Cline and Joni Mitchell, she appreciates all genres.
“Growing up around music allowed me to have an open mind for music,” she said. “I love any kind of music as long as it is good.”
 Tempa wrote her rst song at the age of 4 and sang for a radio station at 7.
Her childhood was lled with song and dance.
“Bluegrass is de nitely part of my roots,” she said. “It’s what I grew up with. It’s like going back home.”
Home, for a while during her childhood, was a van in Florida with her hippie
mother.
“Growing up without television definitely in uenced my songwriting,” she said. When they moved out of the van into a trailer, she got her own kerosene lamp to read by at night.
“We still didn’t have electricity,” she said. “I had a cassette player that I would take out into the woods and sing into.”
Life moved at a slower pace, but she lived in the moment. She still lives for the music.
“It’s music ’til I croak, in any way shape or form I can do it in,” Tempa said.
Her band is working on a third CD and is planing a tour in Europe next year. Watching Tempa and the Tantrums is like going to a zydeco party in New Orleans. You may sweat a little bit and women might kick off their shoes, but you will certainly have a good time.
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TO GO TO THE SHOW
Tempa and the Tantrums will perform From 4:30-6 p.m. in Civic Center Park as part of the downtown Fort Collins Fourth of July celebration.
Tempa and the Tantrums will also play at 2 p.m. June 30 at Hodi’s Half Note in Fort
Collins for a special Colorado Women in Music concert to bene t Crossroads and
Project Self Sufficiency. The cost is $5.
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