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A Gifted Soul Artiste

The dynamic singer Quisha Wint is glad she didn't give up in her struggle to be a professional in the Toronto music scene. "There were times I wanted to give up. It's a hard field to enter since it is costly to get a recording done" confesses Quisha.

But now all that is behind her and she is happy for the experience it gave her. Here in Sri Lanka Quisha was performing with Absence of Colour for the festive season at The Boom, Galadari Hotel, and like she said enjoyed herself immensely. "My first meeting with AOC was wonderful. I came in on December 28 and on stage we were together with ease. I do fifteen minute sets which, include many R&B songs including 'I Will Survive', 'Proud Mary' and selections from the repertoire of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and JLO. My parents weren't so hot on music.

When I was four years old I was the life of a party singing and dancing. Since then music was my addiction. Whitney Houston was a major influence. I learnt all her songs from her albums - I knew them note for note. I can say I am gifted with this talent." Quisha loosens up when we met with her. A regular singer with a Jewish wedding band back home in Toronto, Quisha sings gospel, performs at night clubs singing R&B, disco, house, pop, traditional songs and jazz.

Her jazz influences are from Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson and Quisha who plays keyboards majored in vocals at Humber College in Toronto. She hopes to release a CD of her own in July this year.

This her first visit to Sri Lanka was made possible by Roy de Silva and Rebecca of Arena, whom she met she tell us when she was singing at the Meridien Hotel in Indonseia.A fan of Mariah Carey, Quisha comments "I like her arrangements, her skills, her words which are inspirational like in the song 'Hero' or 'Anytime You Need A Friend.'

She has shown us what we are missing - meaning in lyrics. I think her songs will stay as legends and I want to create songs that will remain that way too despite the passage of time." From here Quisha is off home for a break and then will start working when April moves into her life.

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