About the CD: Engineered by the legendary Fred Catero, who calls Pilar "one of the best singers we have today," LAVENDER is an intimate, live recording of fifteen jazz/pop standards. On the liner notes, Pilar writes, "This CD was a fluke. I casually said to John 'Let's record it.' He casually said 'Yes' and brought a whole bunch of cool, casual gear. I sang songs I had never performed in front of people before. These songs were my family when I had none. Now I share them with you." About the Artist: Pilar was born into a family of American expatriates who lived in Cuernavaca. During her childhood, she lived in Los Angeles, Cuernevaca, Mexico Cityand Guadalajara. At the age of fifteen, she left home and moved to San Francisco, where she began her career as a professional singer/flautist at the Renaissance Faire and local jazz clubs. Pilar has attracted a large and devoted following and has performed at many of the Bay Area's best-known venues, including The Great American Music Hall, The Plush Room, Sweetwater, Larkspur Cafe Theatre, Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, and the Mondavi Wine Festival. Pilar's musical style reveals R & B, jazz, pop, and Latin influences. Whether she's singing one of her original songs or making a jazz or pop standard her own, Pilar is an electrifying performer and a superb vocalist who, according to an industry veteran, ''can take any word, phrase, sentence and evoke emotion through her interpretation.'' Distinguished by her authenticity and depth, Pilar has been praised on JazzWest.com for her "full and sensuous voice" and crowned "the High Priestess of Love" by the Pacific Sun