Reshaping the sounds of her homeland

With flair, jazz vocalist connects with her Latin American roots

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“There’s something that comes so naturally singing in your own language,’’ says Buenos Aires-born Sofia Rei Koutsovitis. (Dl Media)

By Andrew Gilbert

Globe Correspondent / March 14, 2010

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Sofia Rei Koutsovitis may have been born and raised in Buenos Aires, but the first time a New England Conservatory classmate asked her to participate in a concert by singing a nueva canción standard, she bristled at the presumption. After all, the jazz-besotted vocalist didn’t travel 5,000 miles to explore the music of her parents. (Full article: 810 words)