The “Love Needs You” album from Montreal based artist Chantal Chamandy is an impressive collection of World Beat and pop tunes that will keep you humming for hours. The dreamy textures she explores troughout the album are unique and mirror her eclectic artistic pursuits and origins. Born in Alexandria, Egypt with Greek and Lebanese descent, she sings her own heritage. Fluent in five languages, she complements her English lyrics with passages in French, Arabic, Italian and Spanish to give an exotique flavour to “Love Needs You”. The song “Feels like love” with Chico Castillo from the Gypsy Kings is a great ballad where Chantal displays the great range of her voice sometimes even sounding like Celine Dion! The Arabic sounding “You Want Me” invites us to dwelve into her multicultural world. With a backbone made of tabla beats this is a sureshot for dance floors. The wide array of instruments used to create the rich Middlde Eastern sounds found in this album and her divine voice will undoubtebly make this rising star a name to remember.