You'll be hearing a lot from Elizabeth Tryon who has
just finished an three-night engagement at New York's
fabulous Metropolitan Room. To say she's enormously
talented is an understatment. To call her an
extraordinary pop singer only is to shortchange her
redoubtable classically-trained operatic gifts. Not to
mention that nearly half of the songs she sang she wrote
-- some of which are in a class with those of Joni
Mitchell and Andrew Lloyd Webber -- is to not to
underscore her versatility and vitality. In fact, her
song, "Fire Inside" broke into the top 10 of the
prestigious
FMQB AC National Ratings Chart
and has been turned into a music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4e9hbeQNc.
Her other credits also speak or rather, sing, volumes:
the youngest member of Mid-America Productions' opera
tour of Athens and the Greek Islands; soloist at Opera
in the Hamptons with Metropolitan Opera stalwarts; her
composition, "You're Still Mine," chosen as the
soundtrack for an Armed Forces tribute video, to name a
few. Zeitgeist Radio simply call Tryon
"A singing sensation!"
Tryon, who helped put herself through college doing
improvisational comedy, also has the audience at the
Metropolitan Room laughing with her rendition of Alan
Chapman's "Everyone Wants to Be Sondheim" and some even
had tears in their eyes with "You're Still Mine," her
military tribute song. Joni Mitchell's now "Both Sides
Now" and Jason Robert Brown's "Stars and the Moon" were
done with more heart-tugging pathos than any one person
I've ever heard. But even with these two classics, Tryon
somehow manages to keep them amazingly light without
sacrificing their touching tourchsong qualities.