At just 17, Sophie Berkal-Sarbit has already made a dynamic impression on the Canadian jazz scene. Her debut CD, The Gypsy in My Soul, was produced and arranged by the renowned Bill King and released last April. The album received rave reviews in the National Post, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Winnipeg Free Press among others and rested in the top ten of several charts for many weeks. Her music has been played throughout Canada on CBC airwaves and on hundreds of jazz shows from west to eastern coasts. She has been featured on national CBC television, ET Canada, and many local provincial shows. Sophie has become a well-known local artist who has performed at the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, the Toronto Jazz Festival, and the Beaches Jazz Festival. And, if you haven’t heard of Sophie in Canada, don’t be surprised if you hear her in Japan as her CD was licensed this year for distribution there. And through Radio Direct, Sophie is getting airplay in Australia, Italy, the United States, Netherlands, and as far off as Bosnia. In the fall, she begins touring with Bill King’s Young Diva series throughout the country.

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