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CLARA LOFARO, who's new CD PERFEKT WORLD (ComeTrue Records) is just out, was feted last week at Steve Walter's Cutting Room, with SOPRANO-ROBERT FUNARO as the evening's host. Lofaro is the fiery new singer and songwriter, who's work has been likened to that of Laura Nyro, Carole King, and Annie Lennox, and on this night she showed just why. Opening with a few exclusive snippets of the video for the album's title track (shot in Brooklyn) her performance showed an amazing new artist, full of power,imagination and verve. "Don't Punish Me", "Waterfall," and, "Fever", are three powerful tracks from the album and live, they proved themselves to be even better live. Her band was excellent that, providing just the right balance throughout. The guests, incldued her parents (delightful!) who made the drive down from her hometown of Toronto; PR-Pasha-DAVID SALIDOR, who assisted in the evening with her own PR-maven RANDY ALEXANDER; BOBBY-prod...

Clara Lofaro As media buzz gets louder in her native Toronto, CLARA LOFARO is poised to turn up the volume in the States with the release of her new CD 'PERFEKT WORLD.' An eclectic songwriter and soulful performer who embraces pop, rock, R&B, and, jazz, the 2006 Toronto Indie Week winner, now based in New York, combines the best of both worlds - the old and the new.Lofaro's third album release is on her own Come True Records, the label she started as a Berklee College of Music student clearly inspired by Annie Lennox, John Legend, and Laura Nyro. Produced by Mark Turrigiano (Ingrid Michaelson's Boys and Girls) PERFEKT WORLD continues the tradition of the new-age female singer-songwriter carved out by such mainstream mainstays as KT Tunstall and Amy Winehouse. In Toronto, The Telegram declares 'her take on pop music is inventive and almost arresting.' Metro Toronto says 'her vocals ooze with both vulnerability and defiance.' And, Red Deer Express not...