Eva Avila  2007-10-7 10:51:12

 
今年19岁的Eva Avila,1987年2月25日出生于安大略省的渥太华，成长在法语省魁北克，拉丁裔.她的母亲是法裔加拿大人，父亲是秘鲁移民.Eva Avila从小向父亲学习唱歌，会说英、法、西班牙三国语言，家里给她取绰号叫(Eva the dragon).她在三岁时就登台表演，9岁候获得了一档电视天才秀的演唱冠军,也曾是魁省省际歌唱比赛 “Jeune Diva du Quebec”的获奖者。在参加“加拿大偶像”比赛前，Eva Avila只是一个名不见经传的邮局职工和美容顾问，“加拿大偶像”使她摇身变成万人追捧的“新偶像”。2006年加拿大偶像(Canadian Idol)歌手选举赛终于于9月17日晚在多伦多揭晓，来自魁省Gatineau市的19岁女孩Eva Avila以13万1千张选票、高出仅3.3%的支持率，战胜Newfoundland的16岁男孩Craig Sharpe，为魁省捧回第一个加拿大偶像桂冠。在家乡Gatineau市，Eva Avila的亲友们在电视机前紧张地观看直播，当主持人Ben Mulroney揭晓答案后，全场欢腾，Eva Avila更是激动不已，她动情地感谢所有歌迷的支持。

Sony BMG以于今年11月14日推出Eva Avila的首张个人专辑，制作人还邀请到美国著名女歌手Cyndi Lauper在新专辑中献声。而从9月18日起，Eva Avila的首支单曲《Meant to Fly》已开始发行。

Eva Avila (born Eva Gougeon-Ávila) was born in Ottawa, Ontario on February 25, 1987. She is a Canadian singer from Gatineau, Quebec and was crowned the winner of the 2006 season of Canadian Idol, the fourth installment of the show.

Eva is the second ever female winner of the show, (Melissa O'Neil being the first.) Eva auditioned for the competition in Ottawa. Her father initiated her to music and she has been singing in public since the age of 2. At the age of 9 she was a winner on Homegrown Cafe, a talent show on CJOH-TV, in Ottawa.

Prior to appearing on Canadian Idol, Eva worked as a postal clerk and a beauty consultant. She is also a former winner of the Jeune Diva du Quebec contest. Eva is fluent in French, English and Spanish. Her nickname, given by her family when she was a small child, is Eva le dragon (English: Eva the dragon).

On September 16, 2006, the day prior to the public announcement of the Idol results, Sony BMG Music Entertainment offered Avila's version of the first single, Meant to Fly, for sale on the website. The page was subsequently blanked, the artwork for the single can currently be located within the image files of the webpage. This occurrence led to many rumours regarding the winner of the competition.

During the finale show, Judge Zack Werner said that Avila was the show's most obvious candidate for international stardom, but he thought Craig Sharpe would win the competition.

While winning the 2006 crown, the vote separating her and runner-up Craig Sharpe was only 131,000 votes or 3% of the total votes.

Hours after her victory she signed with the record label Sony-BMG and will record an album which will feature Meant to Fly, a song written by Chantal Kreviazuk along with Raine Maida and Gaby Moreno.

Her debut album, Somewhere Else , was released in Canada on November 14, 2006. The second single is the uptempo 'I Owe It All to You'.

After her victory, Avila will embark on a Canadian tour with country singer Martina McBride next summer.

On October 5, 2006, the CTV television network reported that Avila has signed a modelling contract with Ford Models.

Avila started the 2006 NHL season on October 4 when she performed the Canadian national anthem at the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Ottawa Senators game. She performed the anthem again before another Battle of Ontario game at the Scotiabank Place on October 26 following an autograph session on the same afternoon at Gatineau's Les Galeries de Hull shopping centre. On November 19, 2006, Avila performed the national anthem at the 94th Grey Cup game in Winnipeg.

In December 2006, dates for Eva's debut tour where annouced. The tour takes in 30 cities across Canada over 3 months starting in February 2007.

EVA AVILA – SOMEWHERE ELSE
When shoppers in Ottawa’s bustling Byward Market stopped to watch a toddler struggling to sing along with her street-musician father on a sunny summer afternoon in 1990, they couldn’t have realized the tiny back-up singer was destined for stardom. This outdoor performance by the then three-year-old Eva Avila was her public debut and, as she laughingly recalls, any money made that day by the pair of buskers was certainly earned by her father.

“I remember the first song I performed with him was a Portuguese song called ‘La Lambada’,” she laughs. “I didn’t understand what I was singing at all. Actually, to be perfectly honest with you, I think I was just making up words most of the time. I’m not sure I was even in tune!”

That unpolished debut in the Market is at complete odds with the composed, dynamic vocalist Canadian audiences came to embrace during the 2006 Canadian Idol competition. As Eva battled her way to the Idol crown, she displayed a series of daring performances that showcased not only her incredible vocal range but also her ability to utterly take over a stage.

19 year-old Eva Avila was raised in Gatineau, Quebec by her Quebecois mother and Peruvian father. As a child, her father had a recording studio in the basement of the home and it wasn’t long before Eva was knocking on the door to put her voice on tape for the first time. “He was down there all the time rehearsing songs,” she remembers. “It was mostly Spanish music – Cha Cha Cha, Cumbia, Meringue and Salsa. I would always try to get in and grab the mic to sing along with him.”

By the time she was seven, she had progressed to recording covers of pop and show tunes in the basement studio.

“That was the year I did my first full songs,” Eva reveals. “I did a full version of the title song from The Phantom of the Opera and I also did Ace of Base’s “Don’t Turn Around.” I don’t know where those tapes are any more – I think I may have given them to my mom for Christmas that year!”

Eva continued to hone her stage skills as she entered her teens by performing at countless community events including high-school assemblies, Latin festivals and regional TV shows. At 16, she decided to enter her first high-profile singing competition and ended up taking the title in the prestigious, province-wide Jeune Diva du Quebec.
Despite all of her local success, Eva was surprisingly hesitant to enter when the Canadian Idol auditions rolled into Ottawa in the summer of 2006. “All of my friends and family were pushing me to audition but I was very uncertain about it,” she divulges. “I had worked for so long on my career that I wasn’t sure that going for the ‘instant stardom’ was what I should do.”

“But, the morning of the Ottawa audition I had this massive gut feeling that I had to go in. Once I involved myself in the Canadian Idol process I learned so much about the art and the business of music, and realized what a great platform it was for me to accomplish exactly what I had always hoped for as a singer.”
During the course of the Canadian Idol competition, Eva had a chance to interact with many elite members of the record industry. Some of those individuals contributed to Eva’s debut album Somewhere Else including Chantal Kreviazuk and Cyndi Lauper.

Chantal penned Eva's driving first single, "Meant to Fly," which quickly reached #1 on the single sales charts after being released following Eva's Idol triumph. The song was a perfect match for Eva’s soaring vocals and the words of the song resonated perfectly with her Idol experience. “I was so impressed right away with how catchy the song is,” she explains. “I saw such a massive potential if I could make it my own. I still feel great every time I hear that song.”

Cyndi Lauper took a hands on approach to working in the studio with Eva on the cut “This Kind Of Love” – which Lauper both wrote and produced. “She is so wild, I love her!” Eva enthuses. “She taught me so many things - from vocal exercises to stretching and warm-ups. She (literally) pushed things out of me that I didn’t even know I had.”

Somewhere Else fuses all of the influences that make up Eva – mashing pop, R&B, Latin and dusty Motown-era soul elements. The album was produced by Rob Wells (Backstreet Boys, Nick Lachey, Matt Dusk).
The official first single from the album is the Latin-influenced bumper “I Owe It All To You,” which Eva describes as being one of her personal favourites. “I am very sentimental about that track. It is the type of song that clicks with everyone. We’ve all had those moments when we feel so grateful to someone for what they have done for us and feel the need to reach out to give them thanks.”

Eva feels like the album is a fitting introduction to her as an artist. “I hope it will give people a clearer idea of what I am and feel and a sense of where I'm going as an artist,” she explains. “I think this album shows off of all the different sides of my personality.”

“I hope people will be able to connect with every single song, because they each have their own purpose and their own meaning.”

Sensing that she is starting to sound a little too serious, Eva quickly flashes a big smile and changes direction; “But I also want people to dance to some of my songs and hum along to them while they're at work or sitting in their car. Those things are also important to help people get through the day. I’ve done all of those things with other artists’ songs, and I’d love to be able to give some of that that back to my listeners!”

官网：http://www.evaavila.com




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