
Tapped by Ruben Blades as a guest vocalist on his 2003 album Mundo, Luba Mason delivered a rendition of Danny
Boy that was hailed as celestial by the L.A. Times and
soaring by the Boston Globe. Theatregoers already knew Luba
from her starring roles on Broadway in Jekyll and Hyde, The Capeman, and How to Succeed, but Mundo opened up a whole new audience.
Her performance left fans thirsting for more; now Luba steps into the spotlight
with her astonishing debut album, an electrifying
blend of Latin, pop, jazz, theatre, and folk.
In Time Out New York, James Gavin raved, "Luba Mason, the sultry ice-blond costar of The Capeman and Jekyll & Hyde, is as alluring on her new CD as she is on Broadway. Born of Slovak parents, Mason has a tart, muscular voice with a brain behind it, and a lot of bristling Eastern European passion. She brings out the edge in both Tom Waits’s tender apology ‘Take Me Home,’ and in an unsentimental country-rock arrangement of ‘Mr. Bojangles.’ In Mason’s hands, [Ruben] Blades’s Spanish translation of ‘The Look of Love’ sounds even sexier than the original.”
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1. Moondance
 (Van Morrison)
2.
The
Calm Before the Storm  (Lou
Reed & Ruben Blades)
3. Look of Love (Burt
Bacharach & Hal David)
4. Six° of Azimuth (Jim
Keller & Robert Secret)
5. Embroidered (Gerry
Mulligan & Jane Duboc)
6. I Can See Clearly Now  featuring
Ruben Blades (Johnny Nash)
7. Cherry,
Cherry (Neil Diamond)
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8.
Shamed Into Love (Elvis Costello & Ruben Blades)
9.
Don't Shoot the Hooey to Me Louie (Richard M.
Sherman & Robert B. Sherman)
10. The Riddle Song (Old
English Folk Song)
11. I Need You (George
Harrison)
12. Mr. Bojangles (Jerry
Jeff Walker)
13. Take Me Home (Tom
Waitts)
14. Motherland (Milos Lihovetky
& Peter Bella)
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Luba Mason, the multi-talented singer/actress whose debut album from PS Classics “Collage” features an array of styles from Folk, to Latin and Jazz, is currently touring “The Collage Concert” to much acclaim nationwide.
PS Classics had a chance to catch up with Mason and give listeners and fans some insight into this remarkable talent, her album “Collage” and upcoming projects. Visit
Luba's website at www.LubaMason.com.
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