I heard Sophie for the first time at a jazz club in TO (the now-defunct Top o'the Senator) and fell in love with her voice and her stage presence. She is a very pretty young lady of Russian extraction with a voice that makes one think of the tropics - so much energy and so much passion! I totally agree with those who posted before me - she reminds me of Ella Fitzgerald, definitely not Diana Krall. Perhaps all this feeling doesn't quite come through on the CD, but hey, this is her first and I hope there will be many more to come - Sophie is still very young, she's just in her early 20s (and looks 19 ;-)