"Gina Sicilia may be the best blues singer on the music scene today and she still is only twenty-two years old. Her CD Allow Me To Confess demonstrates maturity that belie her years, passion that usually only comes from years of heartbreak, epic moments and wonderful love filled moments. She is the female counterpart to Jonny Lang who while still in his teens blew audiences away with his gritty vocals."
-JazzReview.com
"...unbelieveable voice... Her vocal chops and writing maturity certainly belies the fact that she is a mere twenty-two years of age!! ...there will be inevitable comparisons to Etta James and other great blues singers. But, Gina Sicilia's voice posessess such depth and breadth that she may indeed one day be mentioned alongside the giants in the blues idiom."
-Music City Blues
"At a sexy twenty two, Gina Sicilia's powerful, blues-infused pipes certainly belie her age: this is no blues hatchling taking her maiden voyage. On the contrary, Allow Me To Confess is the debut work of a blues-momma in full blossom."
-AcousticMusic.com
"Gina Sicilia has a voice that brings to mind Etta James with its soul and passion. Her debut release, Allow Me To Confess, not only shows Sicilia to be an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, but also a gifted songwriter"
-BluesBytes
"...classic and timeless..."
-PopSyndicate
"I am taken with her ability to sing with both maturity and youthful fire, and that carries over to her songwriting and stage presence...her power is so exciting and obvious already"
-Bob Margolin
"Sicilia (burning here, icy there) never sounds less than passionate, yet she's also precise and in control. She knows what she's doing."
-Blues Revue
"She sings wonderfully, writes great songs, this young lady with the Italian movie starlet looks really is destined for big things. If she is not appearing regularly on the USA and European festival scene next year then there is no justice in this particular world."
-Blues and Rhythm
"This is one of the best debut Blues albums I have heard in a while! Philadelphian Gina Sicilia is only 21-years-old but sings with a combination of power and conviction that belies her relatively tender years. Even her prodigious application to vocalising would be extraordinary, but when one learns that eight of the eleven tracks are written entirely by the performer, we are in the presence of real and emerging talent."
-Blues Matters!
"...dramatically different from any of her peers. Her voice is robust and earthy...Gina Sicilia has a solid first album and star potential."
-Blues Wax
"...Sicilia gives the Blues and Soul world a breath of fresh air from the new generation. With the Blues-rock warble and imitators flooding the market, Sicilia hearkens us back to late 60s Memphis or a smokey East Coast Blues Club with the turn of a phrase in her voice, or in one step can take us back across the tracks to a Country & Western club of the late 50s."
-Roots Music Report
"On Allow Me to Confess, her recording debut, 22-year old Gina Sicilia comes across as a young Etta James, both in the power of her voice and in her repertoire."
-AllMusic.com
"Here we have the next generation of Etta James and Ruth Brown. She's that good."
-Crossroads Blues Society
"She has the soul, maturity, talent and ability of a star"
-Long Island Blues Society
"Many artists need a life-time of experience to focus all their talent and musical maturity in this one very special album, their definitive. Gina Sicilia has done something unbelievable, she achieved this unique point with your debut CD, one of the best records I’ve heard in recent years.Her voice is so beautiful, smooth as silk and very sexy; cover songs are well chosen and her self-penned tunes equal those by famous songsters; the music itself and production of the CD are of the highest order. Absolutely great album recorded by a full-grown artist, a musical heaven."
-Prezmek Draheim, Polish radio host
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