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About Naama Hillman: “Bruce Springsteen is on fire”, her dad informed her one day, “says so in the paper.” Naama was horrified. “Is he alright?” she asked. Naama, you see, got into music young.

Today, Naama, may still be a Springsteen fan, but she is also a singer and a songwriter cut entirely from her own cloth. Her voice exudes a quiet strength perfectly suited to lyrics driven by a desire for clarity. Her melodies are fresh and memorable. On her upcoming second album, she has the confidence to shake off the shackles she had imposed on herself for her debut. “I wanted it to be a bit rougher this time”, she says. “When it’s your first album it somehow feels like there’s a code to be cracked. As if there is a certain way a song has to be structured and produced. This time I didn’t want to limit myself. I wanted to explore and take risks. It’s been such fun just to let myself go and create whatever I chose to create.” Many friends and fellow musicians, Morcheeba’s Paul Godfrey amongst them, have helped to add instrumental depth and detail to an album of rare subtlety, beauty and – yes – fun.

Born to a musical family in Beer-Sheva, Israel, where her grandmother had founded the Beer Sheva College of Music, Naama spent her first school years in the USA. Later, she returned with her family to Tel-Aviv where she became a teenage Sonic Youth fan. One day, a friend gave her an Edie Brickell album, another day, she stumbled across Suzanne Vega’s “99.9 Fahrenheit”. All of a sudden the Sonic Youth rush of feedback in her mind had an entirely different tinge. She arrived in London, supposedly for a one month visit. She stayed. Not only that – the anonymity afforded by this vast urban expanse gave her a new sense that anything was possible. Writing your own songs, for instance, and performing them in public. The strength of her material swiftly brought progress from open-mic sessions to her own headlining gigs in places like The Borderline and The Enterprise. Once, she remembers, Lemmy (of Motorhead) was in the audience. “Yeah!” he grunted during one particularly raucous passage. Her debut album “Living Room” was released on the independent Rusty Records label, leading to highly successful shows in Israel as well as concerts in the USA and Ireland. In 2006 she recorded the EP “In Between the Lights” which she made available for free download on her website, leading to considerable web fame.

These days, Naama is putting the finishing touches on her second album and planning for its release.

“2008 will prove to be a great year for Naama” ThePlugg.com