October, 2005

All That Jazz

By Liz Anne Bautista
Published October 2005
PULP Magazine

pulp 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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Hitting the Right Note

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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Jazz Call Her Mishka

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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