IDA MARIANA

This Jazzbird's voice has been described as 'Silvery silk', 'warm smoothness', 'marshmallows in hot chocolate", "fun and sophistication in one", "voice subtly husky, melodic, silky, pitch-perfect ... full of soul" and a charm that "oozes sweet sophistication".

Music Genre: Jazz/Soul/Blues/Broadway/

Musicals/Contemporary

Performance: Jazz Singer/Actor

Education: LLB (Hons, Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia); MA Theatre Studies (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)

THEATRE

Theatre Productions include:

-played "Gabrielle" together with Na'a Murad, Patrick Teoh, Joanne Kam Po Po, Elaine Pedly, Megat Shahrizal, Daphne Iking, Amber Chia and Maya Tan in Maya Tan's 1st play, Wacky Bar (PJ Life Arts Centre-PJ) 2009

- Recently played "Bayan" again in the restaging of Puteri Gunung Ledang The Musical Season 3 (KL) 2009

- Tiga Wanita in P. Ramlee The Musical 2008;

- As "Bayan" in Puteri Gunung Ledang The Musical Season 2 (KL/Singapore) 2006;
- Epitaph for a Whale: a reading directed by Lim How Ngean 2005

- Encore : a musical review of Malaysian Musicals (Five Arts Centre) 2005;

- Rhapsody of a Songbird (Yudi Productions) 2002;

- Puppets (Rep21 with Azean Irdawaty) 2001;

- Silly Little Girl and A Funny old Tree (Actors Studio with Faridah Merican) 2001;

- Sunetra Swish Sings Sondheim : a musical review (Rep21) 2001

- Descendants of A Eunuch Admiral (Five Arts Centre) 2000;

- Slice Of Saturday Night (Music Theatre Producitons) 1998;

- Mergers and Accusations (Five Arts Centre) 1998;

- Pouring Out of Me (Actors' Studio) 1998;

JAZZ

"Every time her vocals filled the hall, I was silent. I just stopped breathing, shut my eyes and opened my ears to absorb the barrage of aural beauty that just filled me and felt right, so right."

While she is a lady of the theatre and stage, Ida is also an accomplished jazz vocalist. Ida also takes on many languages, her favourite 'jazz' language being portugese when she does latin jazz.

Other than corporate functions, Ida has been seen at many jazz venues in KL - e.g. Alexis GE Mall, The Top Room, No Black Tie, Bangkok Jazz.

Back up Vocals for: Reshmonu (It's You That Matters), Sean Ghazi (Punchcard and Bunyi Gutar/Kwek Mambo)

Other activities and involvments:

- Teaches childrens' theatre & drama classes at schools, private drama classes and children/teenage/adult theatre workshops

- Has lectured at The Department of Performance and Media, Sunway College

- Was a Radio DJ with WOW fm, RED fm and LITE fm
- Voice Overs for tv and radio
- Vocals for tv ads (Nestle)
- TV adverts CITIBANK, KFC, NESTLE, FAIR & LOVELY

How to contact Ida Mariana:

idamariana@gmail.com