By Liz Anne Bautista
Published October 2005
PULP Magazine

Meet Mishka Adams, currently the best reason to open those ears and indulge in the sound we once feared.  Oh and did we mention that she’s so darn pretty?

Sometimes you stumble upon a person so passionate about her art, you just can’t help but be swept along for the ride.  With Mishka Adams, that is exactly the case – to tell you the truth, I am not really a big jazz fan.  But listening to Mishka’s debut album, God Bless the Child, has made it easier for me to appreciate the genre often described as too intellectual or too highbrow.
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By Erwin Romulo
Published October 2005
MANUAL Magazine

Mishka Adams is beautiful, no doubt about it.  But the voice is something else entirely.
    
“I’m more Filipina,” muses singer-songwriter Mishka Adams when asked why she chose to make the Philippines her home.  Actually, if not for the wonderful lilt of her voice, the statement comes almost as a retort – the sort of pointed remark aimed at hapless journalists who really should have done their homework.
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By Bong Godinez
Published October 2005
S Magazine

It’s not just the echo of her name that can elicit one’s attention.  With her talent and preferred music genre, 21-year-old Mishka Adams could have stayed in England, perhaps struggled a year playing in some obscure clubs before moving up to a more sophisticated venue where record agents in suit would bump into her, completing her destiny of world domination through music.  But not matter how pretty the thought is, the half-Filipino half-British artist is still thankful she did the opposite.
    
Opting to try her luck in a country with a much smaller record buying demographics, a listening majority still quite in awe with bubble gum pop and novelty tunes, scarce venue brandishing jazz music and an industry still shaking off the effects of piracy-her stubbornness surprisingly is starting to pay off.
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By Peter Quinn
Published September 2005
JAZZ WISE

Peter Quinn gets to the bottom of the story behind the signing of a new star in the making from the Philippines, Mishka Adams.

Question.  What do the guitarist Cameron Pierre, the Philippines office of the British Council and the song ‘God Bless the Child’ have in common?  Answer.  They all had some part to play in the signing of Candid’d latest songbird, Mishka Adams.

The British-Filipina singer was snapped up by Candid Records, following a guest appearance at a British Council-sponsored “Jazz in Time” concert featuring none other than Courtney Pine.  After a show-stealing performance of ‘God Bless the Child’, Allan Fajardo  (MD of Candid Records Philippines) – there to see the label’s guitar ace Cameron Pierre – requested a demo.  Mishka’s “video folio” was soon winging tis way to Candid CEO Alan Bates, courtesy of the British Council, and within two weeks Mishka was signing on the dotted line.

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