Classic soul songstress Maiko Watson first came to prominence as a member of Canadian chart-toppers, Sugar Jones, whose cover of Fierce’s 1999 hit “Days Like This” went to #1 on the Canadian Singles Charts and stayed there for six weeks. Dropping out of Sugar Jones, Watson again made a blip on the pop culture radar in 2001 when she married blue-eyed soulster Remy Shand and then disappeared off the public radar. It appears the eight-year absence was time well spent. Nothing Watson has done before will prepare you for this easy perfection of the singer/songwriter’s smoldering debut, Sweet Vibration. Channeling sultry vets Maxine Nightingale and Marlena Shaw with a healthy dollop of Amy Winehouse,  Sweet Vibration is the perfect 11^th hour entry to close out 2009.  Listen to Maiko Watson croon “Another Day” and “Some Kinda Love” and fall in love.

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