With her third solo album, the recently released TO.NY, Toronto native Ivana Santilli has taken her sound into uncharted territory. "As a musician, I’ve been able to venture into different genres and styles – bossa nova, drum and bass, soul, funk, broken beat – I’ve now taken on a new challenge – pop music. It’s really my re-interpretation of a certain era of pop music. Of that time in the late '70s and early '80s when pop really meant ‘popular' and everyone was into it, not just sold on it." Ivana's no stranger to commerce though. Having tasted major label success while still a wide-eyed teen with funk-pop outfit Bass is Base, in 1999 the tri-lingual multi-instrumentalist ventured out on her own and released her debut solo album, Brown. The album sold in excess of 40,000 units, won her an impressive collection of awards and nominations and put her solidly in the vanguard of the then still nascent indie music scene. Since her 2004 follow up Corduroy Boogie, Ivana has firmly established a winning musical formula by combining strikingly beautiful music, soul bearing lyrics and high-energy live shows. This is Santilli’s first appearance in Winnipeg since 2004.

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