Tormenta Rey
The 21st century duet, Tormenta Rey, tight ropes Swamp Blues and Jazz Noir.
This avant-garde show hyper activates your eyes and ears with Stephen El Rey’s songs and Leilainia (lay_lain_ya) LoveLight’s hypnotic trumpet and dance.
El Rey’s vocals capture the allure of early Hollywood crooners, the vulnerability of Roy Orbison, and the raw power of Howlin’ Wolf.
Like a David Lynch film, the juxtaposition between El Rey’s dark ballads and the light of Leilainia’s theatrical romance can feel familiar, but always carries with it a more complex undertow waiting to pull you in.
Tormenta Rey consists of both original compositions and obscure songs from the 20’s and 30’s.
Tormenta Rey can be backed by a sextet, a full New Orleans style brass band, or a string quartet. It can also be streamlined to the powerful vocals and guitar of Stephen El Rey as a soloist.
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I like the unusual not the usual.”
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