Barbadian Debbie Reifer, like so many artists, singing and writing started as an outlet for her as a child and evolved into a craft she loved and adored. Debbie has a deep-rooted love for all forms of music but makes her creative home in folk, soft rock, neo-soul, jazz, pop and reggae blends. Often touched by the music of Anita Baker, Sade, Amel Larrieux, Corinne Bailey Rae and Nikka Costa, her writing style reflects a tender articulation of the human condition and offers musical therapy for the soul.
Debbie has many aspirations of placing her music in TV and Film and in July of 2012 was asked to create music for the family film “Chrissy”; a Barbadian film written, directed and produced by Marcia Weekes. She successfully placed a track for the film titled “I Did It” aided by the production expertise of Toby Armstrong of Hit Island Studios. The film was promoted and released in November 2012 to the Canadian and U.K markets, and to the U.S. in 2013. The film has gone on to receive rave reviews in almost every city it has been released. In writing for the film, she also discovered a love for writing children’s music and plans to add a children’s album to her list of projects this year.
Debbie has also starting to make a name for herself on the performance circuit not only locally, but internationally. The nominee for the 2014 Barbados Music Awards “Best New Artist” recently performed during two of the Canadian Music Week 2013 show cases in Toronto, Canada after being selected from an international field of thousands. OnSeptember 13, 2013 she will also be headlining at Redbones Blues Cafe in Jamaica
Her “Heart’s Like Mine” EP is everything that is human, soulful and easy; from raw and organic tracks like “Amber” to carefree compositions like “We Are Love”. Her laid back vocal style, often compared to the likes of Norah Jones, triggers a sense of peace and contentment and it’s easy to get lost in the mood she brings to her music.
When she’s not in the recording studio, she performs on the local circuit where patrons eagerly wait to hear a “Debbie Reifer original”. For the rest of the world “Hearts Like Mine” is the portal to what everyone has been missing..
http://www.reverbnation.com/debbiereifer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxmDWeBzYU “We are love”