LE DOMAINE BLEU

Theresa Sokyrka's second album, Something Is Expected, is all about her.

She wrote the songs. She paid for the record. She picked the producers. And she wouldn't have had it any other way.

"This is the album of my life," says Sokyrka. "If this one doesn't work, I quit." The quitting part is wry melodrama from the personable 25-year-old, but the first half of the statement is entirely true. All of Sokyrka's adult life has led naturally to Something Is Expected.

The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan native's late teens and early 20s were spent flirting with folk bands and attending Red Deer College for music. Her breakthrough, however, came when she placed second in season two of Canadian Idol and subsequently released the album These Old Charms in 2005. Charms' jazz standards and covers earned her a 2006 Juno Award nomination for best pop album, going gold in Canada and selling over 70,000 copies as Sokyrka rode a firm wave of Idol momentum. That was just part of the plan, though. "I just wanted to make enough money off my first album so I could put out my album," she emphasizes. "This one."


SEP. 12, 2009 - Montreal Ukrainian Festival

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