Walking on Air
July 26, 2008
KERLI
Despite her blonde doll-like persona, Kerli is to the typical pop bauble as black is to white. The Estonian beauty's debut single "Walking on Air" is delivered with a sweet yet mystical vocal that suggests the 21-year-old singer/songwriter is the love child of Björk and Gwen Stefani with a little Natasha Bedingfield tossed in the gene pool. Her musical template is tough to classify: alternative by nature, but with clever parts pop, rock and rhythm. Even the accompanying videoclip draws on her ethereal quality, with its "Pan's Labyrinth" world in which nightmare and fantasy collide. She has a powerful ally in producer/co-writer Lester Mendez, who has worked up hits for Shakira, Jewel, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira and Nelly Furtado. Amid a year with wondrous new talent, Kerli is another marker with potential to test the tried and true. She's walking toward certain notoriety.—Michael Menachem
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