The Sandspur

Issue date: 3/5/10 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Victoria Doyle SING YOUR HEART OUT: Rollins student Victoria Doyle has just recorded her first CD, "A Salute to Cole Porter."

Victoria Doyle (Class of 2011), originally from Philadelphia, is a Rollins student studying music and voice performance. Doyle specializes in the jazz/lounge style, which she considers her life and passion. In addition to giving performances and singing songs by early 20th century songwriter Cole Porter, she has recorded her own album, "A Salute to Cole Porter," which compiles and pays tribute to what she considers the best works of her favorite composer. She sings each song on the album with a nostalgic and heartwarming passion, as the album, according to her, showcases the set list used for her best live performances.

Doyle started taking voice lessons at eight years old, and has had one-woman shows at nursing homes since. She has also sung in musicals and plays, including "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Anything Goes" (a Cole Porter musical), "Footloose," and "Little Women." Her main influences are Ella Fitzgerald (her favorite singer) and Michael Bublé. Doyle "loves her [Ella Fitzgerald's] voice, and her renditions of songs are amazing." She also loves Michael Bublé's arrangements, and listens to a diverse array of music besides her jazz/Broadway standards.

Doyle's "A Salute to Cole Porter" is a "best of" compilation of Cole Porter standards, plus several songs inspired by him in his style. The former are: "You Do Something To Me," "Night and Day," "Let's Do It," "Just One of Those Things," "Begin the Beguine," "So In Love," "What Is This Thing called Love?," and "True Love." The latter include "Smile," composed by Charlie Chaplin for his movie "Modern Times," with lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, and "Sway," a mambo-style song composed by Pablo Beltran Ruiz, which has been covered by artists such as Bjork, Cliff Richard, and Michael Bublé.

"Smile" and "Sway" "fit the same mood of the whole album. Like, 'So In Love' would have a Latin beat, and it would carry over in 'Sway,'" Doyle commented.

When asked what inspired her to record a Cole Porter tribute album, Doyle replied that she got good reactions from the songs, and that the first one-woman show she performed was a Cole Porter show.

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