{"id":346063,"date":"2011-03-29T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/29\/julian-velard-is-treating-londoners-to-a-taste-of-his-suave-voice-and-cheeky-charm\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:11:30","slug":"julian-velard-is-treating-londoners-to-a-taste-of-his-suave-voice-and-cheeky-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/29\/julian-velard-is-treating-londoners-to-a-taste-of-his-suave-voice-and-cheeky-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Velard is treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"101.7550274223\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 1:11 AM on 29th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Native New Yorker Julian Velard is currently treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old drew a crowd at the Apple Store in Covent Garden earlier this month ahead of his latest single, Love Again For The First Time&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists and iPad browsers&#8217; ears pricked up to the sounds of Julian&#8217;s quirky piano melodies and tongue-in-cheek lyrics during his surprise midweek performance.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for the Daily Mail&#8217;s album review<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dafceeb4837_468x554.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"554\" alt=\"Piano man: Native New Yorker Julian Velard is taking London by storm with his quirky cool and smooth vocals\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Piano man: Native New Yorker Julian Velard is taking London by storm with his quirky cool and smooth vocals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The singer slides effortlessly from an upbeat tune about (whisper it) cocaine, Me and My Mirror On A Saturday Night, to smooth songs about love, despite admitting it is not something he believes in himself &#8211; cue the sound of breaking hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Velard is sarcastic and brazen, delivering his performance with gusto and a wink, and at the same time boyishly charming in his trademark bow tie and joyful melodies.<\/p>\n<p>He has toured with the likes of Jamie Cullum and Kate Nash and written for X Factor runner up Olly Murs.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/465042ce596_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Surprise appearance: The singer popped up at London's Apple Store this month to treat shoppers to a taste of his soulful talent\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprise appearance: The singer popped up at London&#8217;s Apple Store this month to treat shoppers to a taste of his soulful talent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Mr Saturday Night (Planeteer)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Buzzing with a feel-good pop gloss that combines the dramatic flourishes of a young Rufus Wainwright with the killer melodies of classic 70\u2019s Elton John, the single is the first from Julian\u2019s forthcoming album \u2018Mr. Saturday Night\u2019 and is the perfect introduction to his new creation. <\/p>\n<p>Written in London, it is inspired by British theatricality, light-heartedness and the sheer joy of straightforward pop music and is packed with brazenly brilliant tunes.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bafdf0cb463_468x622.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"622\" alt=\"Charmer: The 31-year-old witty lyrics and sarcastic humour are a hit with fans\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charmer: The 31-year-old witty lyrics and sarcastic humour are a hit with fans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The album follows Julian\u2019s 2009 debut \u2018The Planeteer\u2019, which was released after he was plucked from relative obscurity off MySpace and soon after, found himself at the centre of a record company bidding war. <\/p>\n<p>He has since gone on to pen songs for other emerging new artists including Olly Murs while his own debut became an immediate hit with critics with The Sunday Times calling it \u201ccatchy but complicated; a surprisingly rare combination\u201d and Time Out comparing him to Harry Nilsson and Tom Waits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dafceeb4837_468x554.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1370835\/Julian-Velard-treating-Londoners-taste-suave-voice-cheeky-charm.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Julian Velard is treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Velard is treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:11 AM on 29th March 2011 Native New Yorker Julian Velard is currently treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Julian Velard is treating Londoners to a taste of his suave voice and cheeky charm - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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