Bianca James “Bang Bang Baby”

Toronto’s Bianca James establishes herself as a truly compelling singer/songwriter with a tight set of incredibly hooky sixties-inspired tracks on her self-titled debut album out August 4th, with her new single ‘Bang Bang Baby’ landing on the same day.

While many artists mine similar veins of vintage musical vibes, few do so as convincingly and effortlessly as Bianca James. On this, her independent debut album, Bianca nails it with her huge voice and a degree of cinematic flair that captures all the drama and glamour of the time, while adding an eminently satisfying splash of modern pop to the mix.

That comes across loud and clear on every track on the album. Nowhere more so than on cutting-edge track ‘Bang Bang Baby.’ Featuring a uniquely expressive vocal performance, a stellar contribution by The Hollywood Horns, and some decidedly modern flourishes haunting the edges, ‘Bang Bang Baby’ is an absolute earworm that somehow manages to sound timeless and current simultaneously.

For Bianca, music has always been a means of transforming heartbreak and pain into strength and freedom. “I don’t think I consciously wrote songs about empowerment, but there is a message of overcoming, of finding hope on the other side. That’s an undercurrent in all my songs,” she explains, adding that although she typically draws on personal experience in her songwriting: “My mission is to inspire others to live their life, and their dreams, to the fullest.”

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