First, there is that name...Thisbe Vos. It is not merely exotic; it is something much more than that, something mythic. Dutch-born, living the dream in America's land of Milk and Honey—LA—Vos, by her looks, voice, repertoire, composing...demands attention, and gets it without ever raising her voice.

My album “Under Your Spell” is receiving a wide release today.

At the end of November, I had the opportunity to sing backing vocals for a Mills Brothers big band show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Two of my “super fans” made this cake for me featuring my upcoming album “Under Your Spell”.

When I grew up in Holland I used to listen to Ella Fitzgerald. No matter what was going on in the struggles of every day life, I could always put on one of those songs for a couple of minutes and it would just make me feel a lot better about the world again.

Here is a new music video for the song “Under Your Spell” from the upcoming album of the same name.

We recently had a photo contest for my music video of “My Favorite Things”. I had had the idea to make a video with photos of my favorite things and the favorite things of people all over the world. It was great fun – we received over 500 funny, interesting and stunning photos.

I was recently posed the question “what is jazz, blues and swing and how do they relate to each other (since they sometimes seem difficult to tell apart)”. This also leads to the question “what is jazz”. Here is my own humble answer.

In February I was invited by Johnny Holiday to perform at The Cicada Club in downtown Los Angeles as part of the “Johnny Holiday Spectacular”.

Sophistication was just designated “Vocal CD of the Month” by veteran jazz producer, journalist and voting member of NARAS Arnaldo DeSouteiro.

It’s already been a couple of weeks since the album was released – there was such a whirlwind of activity around the release that I hardly had time to post. The release went off splendidly.

One day before the album release on 16 September, we auctioned off the first copy for sale on eBay.

By popular demand… autographed album copies!

This was me signing CDs last week before the they went off to the fulfillment warehouse.

We are only seven days away from the release of Sophistication! It has been several years in the making, took hundreds of hours to produce and required painstaking attention to detail.

I wanted Thisbe to share with all of us how the making of the album actually materialized into what is going to be released on September 16th.

The Mills Brothers invited me to perform a duet with them at their show at the Sweet and Hot Jazz Festival in Los Angeles.

My two singles House of Make Believe and After You’ve Gone were featured on Cape Town’s Fine Music Radio 101.3 last week.

My second song and music video were released on Friday 6 May. This song is called “After You’ve Gone” (not to be confused with the 1918 song by Turner Layton and Henry Creamer).

House of Make Believe received its first radio airplay on Monday 4 April on the Philip Newbery’s “Morning Melodies” show on WMBG 740AM.

A few weeks ago you saw the launch of the website and the release of the “House of Make Believe” song and music video. Some of you are aware that I have been working towards this launch and the full album recording and release for the past several years (if not longer….). So how did it go?