Ashelyn Summers

Ashelyn Summers (21 May 1987) blends artfully piano pop with ease by a string quartet and beats of modern rock - all create their own musical elixir sure to enchant Many people have compared Summers to Amy Lee of Evanescence and the comparison is not without evidence, her rich nuanced vocals will catch you when you hear them and maybe there is no better introduction than willful Amnesia - with his voice crying alone against the sounds of the floors instruments: the worn melancholy a 1910 Story & Clark piano the resonant content of a 100-year-old cello and sonorous baritone of a 200-year base Summers, a singer-composer from Orange County, California, is backed by a bevy of musicians, including two pianists - Jennifer Takahashi and Jervy Hou, a string quartet - Hiro Go (violin) Hiro Go (viola) Irina Chirkov (cello) and Dave Stone (bass), and a rock band - Mick Taras (guitar), Drew Almighty Brook (bass) and John Ferraro (percussion ) Summers' debut album, the key to my heart will be released May 21, 2011 Each of the album's twelve songs appeared initially as a single was released through AshelynSummerscom the first day of each month starting in June 2010 fully mastered tracks are combined to a two Rs albums: the first disc with the regular versions and the second album with instrumental versions of the singles Summers counts among her influences: Gabriel Faure and Sergei Rachmaninov Giacomo Puccini, Samuel Barber, Yoko Kanno Nobuo Uematsu