SHORT: Lua Hadar's signature “jazz without borders” brings songs from different genres and languages into the jazz idiom. Lua has charmed audiences at the finest venues and international festivals from San Francisco to Hollywood to New York to Paris to Bangkok, and now to Portugal. She peppers her cosmopolitan jazz with funny stories, connecting the global dots between her influences and her songs. Her full-length Concert Film, Like A Bridge, appears on iTunes and Google Play and she has produced three albums and two original music videos with her band. Lua’s recordings appear on iTunes, Youtube, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora and most digital services.
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Instantly accessible and truly exotic, she has been molded by cultural exchange experiences in places as diverse as Bali, Russia, Switzerland, Japan, Thailand, France, Italy and Portugal. Her fascination with world cultures is reflected in the sophisticated song choices for her band, Twist.
The mission of her band is to foster world harmony through music. This passion found its expression in the production and release of her 2012 recording project, Like A Bridge, which features songs in seven languages about our common humanity. Like A Bridge was released to critical acclaim at Somethin' Jazz Club in New York City in April 2012. The Like A Bridge DVD released in September 2013 at the renowned Yoshi’s Jazz Club in Oakland, CA, after its big screen debut at the historic Balboa Theater in San Francisco. It now appears as a full-length Concert Film on iTunes and Google Play. See the free 9-Part YouTube mini-series on the making of Like A Bridge and Lua's Backstory.
Lua's Voyager Project began at San Francisco's Fort Mason on May 26, 2018, with the release of her original Music Video Our Common Humanity, in a live concert.
The second of her Voyager Trilogy, Saudade, debuted in May 2020, with an original music video on Lua’s YouTube Channel.
Lua performs full themed shows in French and in Italian. She has appeared with her band at Yoshi's Jazz Club, The Fairmont Hotel, The Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fort Mason, Feinstein's at the Nikko, San Francisco’s Society Cabaret, The Rrazz Room, The Plush Room and Jazz at Pearl’s, New York’s Iridium Jazz Club and Cornelia Street Café, the Swan Bar in Paris, Théâtre Les Tisserands in Lille, France, Club Duque da Rua in Lisbon, and at the Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music.
A Teaching Artist with San Francisco Opera Education and also at her own Studio NPG, Lua Hadar has instructed in world jazz standards, musical theatre, opera, cabaret, and French chanson. She speaks and can teach in four languages. In 2010 and again in 2015, she taught a Master Class for Singers on the Great American Songbook in Lille, France. She often coaches professional singers in her Performance Skills Workshop with singer-teacher-recording artist Daria.
Hadar is a credentialed teacher with a B.A. in Theatre, an M.A. in Education, with studies at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Dalcroze School of Music and at the Metropolitan Opera.
Lua has served San Francisco with a seven-year stint on the Arts Providers Alliance Executive Committee and on the Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Master Plan.
Lua’s recordings appear on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Soundcloud, Pandora, and most digital services.
vivacious brand of jazz…inspired …swinging …cool - Luna Kafé, Sweden
…seductive… polished vocal phrasing… irresistible - Blast Radio 1386, UK
…first call band of international talent with an innate gift of swing and the ability to reinvent tunes without disrespecting the originals…incredibly intriguing hybrid… delightful world flavor… - Brent Black, Critical Jazz