Listen to Sara Mitra croon an original tune, ‘Going Home Alone‘ (more clips). Mitra is a 25-year-old Cambridge-educated jazz singer with several London gigs in June and the Edinburgh and Cambridge Fringe Festivals this summer:

I studied music at Cambridge… and sang in the college choir and chamber choir…

How would you describe your voice?

Clean, but getting dirtier! I’m classically trained, so to sing in my own voice is still a relative novelty. [Link]

Sara [cites] singers Sheila Jordan, Anita O’Day, and Jill Scott as three of her top vocal influences. Her wide repertoire [includes] arch takes on Cole Porter numbers to heartfelt reworkings of Bob Marley’s love songs. [Link]

Mitra also laid down chords for the adaptation of a sci-fi classic:

Choral sessions include contributions to The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy film soundtrack, and Spectrasonics Symphony of Voices, a library of musical sounds for professional filmmakers. [Link]

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