Album Description
"[Pink Martini] delivers a knowing sophistication backed by skillful arrangements ... Ms. Forbes is an unpretentious, pitch-perfect chanteuse who can be breathy and girlish or sultry ... she tempers heartbreak with savoir-faire." -- New York Times
"No matter how Pink Martini gets described, there's always an element being overlooked, a reliance on phrases such as lounge, cosmopolitan rumba, or neo-classical that only tells part of this rich story. Impressive at every musician's station, this ensemble produces music that's charming and elegant." -- Variety
Sympathique, Pink Martini's wildly popular debut album, was released in 1997. It has gone on to sell 800,000 copies worldwide and has taken the band around the world on tours to the Cannes Film Festival as well as across Europe, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan, and Taiwan, among other farflung destinations. Nominated for Song of the Year and Best New Artist in France's Victoires de la Musique awards, the album is Platinum in France and Gold in Canada, Switzerland, Greece, and Turkey.
