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She sells her mission very well. Alluring in a black sparkling dress, with an easy charm and a compelling voice, her performance was as slick as Mano Suave, the recently-released record that it was promoting.

Her band, which had French, British, Spanish, Paraguayan and Israeli components on guitars, percussion, reed instruments and harp, was as disparate as the historical roots of her chosen music and provided the warmest of textures as a bedding for her tortured voice to sing of love, loss and pain.

But polished as this show was in presentation and delivery, Levy's voice seemed to lack an authenticity. There's no denying her passion for tradition, but her true voice only shone through in Una Noche Mas, tellingly one of the few self-penned songs of the evening.

She had fine control of her audience, though, and even turned on the house lights at one point to instruct them to join in the chorus on one song. The effect was gentle and wonderful - and ultimately helped provoke the full house to a standing ovation.

Yasmin Levy
Union Chapel
Compton Terrace, Islington, N1 2UN