Name: The First Cut is the Deepest by Ava Lemert in Cover Tunes I Perform:
Duration: 57 s
Description: A quick demo of one of the new cover songs I'm adding to my 2016 live shows. If you are booking, contact me directly at ava@avalemert.com from Cheryl Crow to Ella Fitzgerald, I gotcha covered, plus my own creations not found anywhere else!

LOVE IT!!Your voice is UNBELIEVEABLY BRILLIANT Ava!cool harmonies too!! and great build!!Peace,light,love!!XOXO

It's too damn short sista!! Ha! and I live too far away to come to the shows...like Australia is just a tad far !!When are you going to come here/?? and are you playing your sax too??

@share-a-cherry: Thank you so much, I can't recall what we were going to work on, I've vastly improved and re-invested in my studio, it's much easier for me to power-up and get busy tracking, let me know if you need anything I could add, OK? <3 ya

Some samples of my versions of favorite tunes, I perform these live! Please contact me if you are interested in booking me for your events http://www.AvaLemert.com/contact

Cover Tunes I Perform:

!!!! FEBRUARY 2022 BEST COVER SONG AWARD-WINNER !!!!
https://www.theakademia.com/awards/2022/AvaLemert-TakeItEasy-0000351989.html

A cover from the mid-80s, I've wanted to do this song for so long, it's not even funny! I have the original 45 still. With sequencing by Nelson Guimaraes, the original male vocal with guitar solos, is now transformed into my special signature arrangement with my tenor sax supplying the riffs and middle 8 solo, and lead vocal plus 6 harmony backing vocals by  me :-) too! So much fun, I'll update this when the track comes out and I have a pre-save and buy link to share!

Take It Easy

April 9, 2021

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Oddgrooves - Swing - Demo - 190

WATCH THE TOTALLY TUBULAR MUSIC VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtLcwj8Q5cI

More than a title for the song, "Breaking Away" aptly describes Ava Lemert's new direction for her music making. In this song, she flexes her vocal, and production chops, "Breaking Away" from the misconception that she is simply a "jazz saxophonist." Ava also recorded, mixed, and mastered the song herself in her Citrus Heights studio, My Blue Heaven.
"Breaking Away" is a rather obscure song from 1981 by the band, Balance. Ava's version of the energetic, 80s rocker, has a bit faster tempo, great for exercising to, and six vocal harmonies, all sung by Ava herself! This is a new arrangement of a dusty gem from the days of leg warmers, and Miami Vice. It's both nostalgic, and refreshing with the "realness" of the soaring, powerful vocals by Ava Lemert

Breaking Away

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My version of the Sam Cooke classic. I believe in it, the words, the universal need and gravity of the meaning, I hope with my voice and my saxophone expressing the song, that you feel how much this means to me. I have wanted to try for many years, afraid of not being able to do this immortal song of hope well-enough to present to the world. I'm coming closer to my own Spirituality, in accepting what I cannot change, and letting God do the heavy lifting in my career and my life. I performed this at a Women's Spiritual retreat and it was the most amazing experience I've had so far. I want more of it. I humbly submit this effort to you. I hope you like it. <3 Ava

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A Change Is Gonna Come

Captain Jack

"Winter Song" at times sounds like an instrumental that might have been made by #BrianFerry or #RoxyMusic with it's swirling, sultry harmonizing saxophone lines that phase in, around, and above each other. It's as if they are lovers in a dance, very dream-like, with an intoxicating, driving tom-drum beat behind them. Chill, but also, intensely passionate.

Winter Song

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SAMPLE Winter Song

I heard this song, and it moved me so much, it took me a while to do it without completely cracking. I did this because, well, I am a Motherless Child. The music really came out well, I made it with my KeyRig and the great instruments I have sampled, these are my favorite orchestral patches used in my arrangement. Yes, I am not just a singer. I make the music as often as I can because I can afford my own time :-)
So it made sense to me to group with it, my song written for my Mom, Annette and also having just lost one of my greatest influences, Etta James also to cancer just this week, I recorded a new version of "At Last" I haven't figured out artwork yet. I'll get back to you on it. Thanks for checking it out :-) Ava

At Last

OUT NOW! ==>> https://ffm.to/itsnot2late <<==
We're surrounded by corruption, lies, and governmental over-reach. This is my call to wake up, and fight against "tyranny creep" that is here, right now, in America.

2023 © Ava Lemert Music, Inc.
Words & Music by Ava Lynn Lemert (BMI). All instruments, vocals, recording, mixing, mastering, artwork by Ava Lemert. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

LYRICS:

Ooh!

Are you ready?

Want some truth?
You gotta let me be free.

Got to make up my own mind
to live in Liberty.

Liars hide, and the news is fake.
Well, there's only so much deceiving
that I can take!

Well,
Better make it right before it's too late,
Is it too late?

Light the dark, clean the slate.
Well, you know we're running out of time,
Did we seal our fate?

You know, it's time that we take a stand, 
Before it's too late!
Oh no, tell me,
It's not too late!
Here we go!

(sax solo)

Oh!
I'm wide awake!
And it's plain to see,
Yeah,
All the spin and propaganda, yeah,
It's tyranny!

Do you hear me?
Stop sleepin'
Before it's too late!
Before it's too late (it's not too late)

You know it's time that we take a stand,
Before it's too late! (It's not too late)
Tell me, it's not too late

It's (Not) Too Late

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SAMPLE - It's (Not) Too Late

Link to download on https://leftfielddrumbreaks.com/

"THESE HANDS" Percussion Sample Pack Demo!

PRE-SAVE & D/L LINKS ☛☛ https://onerpm.link/815615793497 

A big, bold version of the blues classic, Ava takes the WHOLE stage here: with an aggressive power lead vocal, equally gritty, searing saxophone riff and solo, as well as three soulful backing vocals, give this both a bright sound, with a vintage soul roundness. Absolutely a stunner in the digital age, with NO auto-tune required nor used!

Born Under a Bad Sign

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SAMPLE-Born Under A Bad Sign

Coming soon! My cover of the Elgins' "Darling Baby"

Darling Baby

(SAMPLE) Darling Baby

A quick demo of one of the new cover songs I'm adding to my 2016 live shows. If you are booking, contact me directly at ava@avalemert.com from Cheryl Crow to Ella Fitzgerald, I gotcha covered, plus my own creations not found anywhere else!

The First Cut is the Deepest

For booking purposes: this is a demonstration of my original production and arrangement of the Eurythmics' hit, "Right By Your Side" lead vocal and sax will be played LIVE in front of your audience! Book me for your venue or special occasion ava@avalemert.com or http://avalemert.com/contact

Right By Your Side (SAMPLE)

Multisampled layered synth pianos from classic 80's and 90's keyboards, mixed with vintage EPs and Grand Piano.

Ballad EP 1 - Soft Demo

Ava Lemert is a multiple award-winning entertainer, international recording artist, and is also a prolific recognized arranger, producer and composer of hundreds of pieces in many styles from sweeping cinematic themes to historic and exotic world music. Her music has made the GRAMMY Award ballot 7 times, the latest being 2022's "Breaking Away" which made the ballot for "Best Rock Performance." Ava's been releasing her own music for over 13 years now, spanning 9 albums, 2 EPs and 30+ singles. 2022 marked her comeback to actively performing in and around the Greater Sacramento Region. For booking, email: booking@avalemert.com

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