#4: Sylvie Sings the Blues
This episode comes to you from Sevilla, Spain. It's an encounter with director Sylvie Nys about voice and song, and how over the past few years of the pandemic, she's been going to sing at an event in Sevilla called the Jam Tonic. Here, she has discovered her voice, her way of singing. The first song she sang at the jam was B.B King's "The Thrill is Gone."
Sylvie Nys is a director originally from Belgium. She has directed over thirty plays. She is the founder of Ñía Company, the first in Seville to create theater for babies. A translator, playwright, Sylvie is also an actress in her plays for children. She is a songwriter and author of a children's book (Michú y yo) and most recently, the co-author of a book of portraits and text called Sevilla Intima. (Mirada Global, March 2022).