“My songs are the words I could never say,” confesses 18-year-old singer-songwriter Savannah Terez. A New Orleans native, Savannah began singing competitively when she was three, and within two years was asked to be a regular performer in Branson, MO. At age seven she began writing songs and a year later would find herself performing on on the Maury Povich “Most Talented Kids” show. “In New Orleans, you can walk down the street and hear a full jazz band playing. Music’s in my blood.”
Rich melodies and cleverly constructed lyrics, laced with the wisdom of a woman twice her age define Savannah’s original music. They are the songs of resilient women skilled at turning pain into joy. Savannah’s mother had her when she was 20, and Savannah's birth father passed away when she was three. “For a long time, it was me and my mom against the world,” Savannah says. “This album is my realization of strength.”
In “Rescue", Savannah pays tribute to the powerful singer-songwriters who have come before her and incorporates Oldies musical tropes into a distinctly modern sound. “Red Handed” is a high-class kiss-off in the vein of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” while “Snow” and "Love to Do" have the restrained ache and stripped-down instrumentals of Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide.”
Alternating between piano and guitar, Savannah’s musical talents are brilliantly displayed in these sophisticated vocal pop songs. But her voice is the crowning jewel—at turns delicate, sultry, husky—it reminds of Norah Jones and Aimee Mann.
Her songs are the music of an eternal optimist writing from the point at which heartbreak transforms into resilience. This alchemy is the essence of the soul.
