With the release of her critically acclaimed debut record "Superwoman In The Making", Mabro was put on the map with significant airplay on both college and major radio stations across Canada. Mabro wowed audiences with her high energy performances at venues and festivals across the country with her 2 cross Canada tours in 2006, performances at NXNE and Festiblues, and several shows in New York City. Critics were quick to take notice, with reviews like "Mabro has molded a unique sound that's steeped in tradition and topped with modern texture and sass" (Chartattack Magazine) and "Mabro's music lives and breathes" (Montreal Mirror). The diverse line-up of her live show allows for the gripping subtlety and dynamism of the music to permeate even the toughest of crowds, leaving audiences breathless and satisfied.

Mabro has also shared the stage with world renowned performers Celine Dion, Jorane, Luck Mervil, Les Respectables, and many more at the Montreal Bell Centre to an audience of 15,000 for an internationally televised charity event for the Red Cross. Mabro and her band have gone on to share the stage with many different Canadian and American artists including Vanessa Carlton, Raul Midon, Lullaby Baxter, Bob Egan, and many others.

Enthusiasm for Amanda's vocal prowess and ineffable presence continues to grow and expand throughout Canada and the US—and has been heightened following the success of the Annual WAWA Show—a multi-disciplinary festival promoting women in the arts created and produced in Montreal by Mabro since 2003.

Mabro's current projects include the relase of her new EP "Red Rows", the 4th edition of "The WAWA show!" coming this May, an upcoming performance at the Toronto Jazz Festival in June, and Mabro's highly anticipated multimedia event "What's your Pleasure?" happening in Fall of 2008

Other Projects: Amanda also provided keys and backing vocals for Cozmos Quazar's solo project "Cozmos Quazar & The Glass Genius". They shared the stage with Franz Ferdinand, The Snitches, Elevator, and Arcade Fire.

Discography 2006 - Superwoman in the Making - XXI-21 RECORDS / SRI Canada New "Red Rows" EP March 2008 - Bitchin' Empire
 

RED ROWS & CONCERT REVIEWS:

CBC Radio 1 calls Amanda Mabro's new CD "Red Rows" a "groundbreaking" record that features music by an artist who's sound is "unlike anything heard before". -May 2008

HOT YOUNG SINGLES: Amanda Mabro: How Long. This robust, catchy number has a show-tune assertiveness that keeps it playing in your head all the time. And we do mean that in a good way. Available at: www.amandamabro.com  and on her latest EP, Red Rows. -MONTREAL GAZETTE, April 2008

Jazz singing doesn't necessarily have to be all sultry, dreamy and supperclub-ish. God knows, there are plenty of vocalists out there covering that turf. Amanda Mabro is different: her songs grab you by the throat and look you in the eye with cool defiance. This is big-voiced, cabaret-influenced music with a bit of garage attitude. -MONTREAL GAZETTE, March 2008

Amanda Mabro - Red Rows EP (Bitchin' Empire) With a versatile vocal style ranging from a coquettish coo to a milk-curdling brassiness, Montreal's Amanda Mabro shines on this six-track disc, a departure from the Cabaret Band stylings of old. Backed by fluid arrangements of piano, guitars, percussion, violin, accordion and synths, and deftly produced by her right-hand man, Cozmos Quazar, Mabro & cie fuse what were once evident influences into something more modern and unique. A cover of Jolie Holland's "Old Fashioned Morphine" is an umbilical cord to the blues, but their timely tune "Nuit Blanche," in French and coated in pixie dust, sounds like a key to the future. 8/10(Lorraine Carpenter) -MONTREAL MIRROR, March 2008

Montreal Buzz: Dig The New Cabaret With Amanda Mabro "Rigid jazz purists and Michael Buble fans may not approve......Mabro has molded a unique sound that's steeped in tradition and topped with modern texture and sass." -Chartattack April 2006

"cette chanteuse allumée donne dans ce qu'on appelle du «cabaret jazz», avec beaucoup d'humour et une pointe de nostalgie." -L'Actualité, Nov 2006

Warped heroine: The indie-cabaret of Montreal chanteuse Amanda Mabro "Mabro is possessed of a distinctive rich voice that hails from the goodtime lounges of the 1920s. It wraps around phrases with a self-assured expressiveness and natural vivacity that effortlessly conjures up visions of from any of the jazz ages–the theatricality of the '20s, the glamour of the '50s, even the Manhattan Transfer-style jazz informed by the energy of rock songwriters in the '70s." -SEE Magazine (Edmonton, Alberta)

Superwoman in the Making Brendan Murphy Ms. Mabro's album may have a "contempo jazz tag," but for me, her throaty delivery sounds a lot more burlesque and cabaret than it does Norah Jones. I don't mean to be rude - not having met Amanda in person - but this is no skinny chick singing: these are round-bottomed, curvy jazz-ish songs with some balls to them. (Did I just call her a fat man?) The title track is the best, most fully realized song on the album, which progresses smoothly despite the stops and starts of piano, bass, guitar and drums. Producer and co-writer Cosmos Quazar deserves credit here, as there is nothing amateurish about this album's arrangement. This is good, this is different, and you might like this. -HOUR May 2006

"I felt as though I was in a sultry, smoke-filled German cabaret in the 1920s...the room was packed with jazz fans transfixed by the sexy, powerful voice of Mabro as she seemed to channel Julie London, Holly Cole and Lotte Lenya through her tiny frame...Backed by only piano and drums, the music was tight, the sound was full and the audience hollered its appreciation...Some even danced." Full Article -Sept 2006, The SOO TODAY, Sault Ste Marie, ON

"Old School Cabaret Meets New School Rock" -Canmore Leader, Alberta Full Article June 2006

"A little Billie, a little Garland, a little Ella, great keys and a 21st-century beat. It's jazz for real people." Andy Frank, DJ, CIUT FM Toronto

"Mabro's singing is indeed seductive, and along with the inescapable force of her Cabaret Band to cementing their signature sound, you might find yourself in love and grooving along." -Wavelength, Toronto June 2006

Amanda Mabro & the Cabaret Band's 26-year-old front woman defies labels. She's confident yet humble, bubbly yet grounded. Naturally, her debut CD isn't easy to describe. You could call Superwoman in the Making your grandma's jazz, if your grandma is a finger-snappin', heel-kickin', hip-shakin' hottie who loves The Doors. Mabro and her band mates, keyboardist Cozmos Quazar and drummer Patrick Rizzetto, call their music "cabaret pop," a sound they'll be carting across Canada later this month... FULL ARTICLE: Montreal Magazine May 2006