My name is Clara Sanabras & I'm originally from Barcelona, now a Londoner. I sing and play with my band The Real Lowdown, a bunch of incredibly talented people who happen to be some of the finest jazz musicians in London.

In the past I have travelled all around the world performing a wide range of music, from medieval & world music to Stockhausen, with international artists & bands such as Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble, The Harp Consort, Theatre of Voices, Charivari Agréable, Dufay Collective, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & John Rutter, The Israel Camerata…With these artists I've recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Decca, Signum Records & Zenobia and I released a solo album of Celtic folksongs for Linn Records a little while ago called The New Irish Girl. Every now and then, I also work in theatre (mainly at the National Theatre & the Globe) and was featured in the Merchant of Venice "The Movie" with Al Pacino by director Michael Radford, and in the soundtrack with music by Jocelyn Pook. Recent collaborators include composers Django Bates, Alberto Iglesias and Rachel Portman.

I'm now writing and performing my own music and expanding my collection of unusual stringed instruments - charango, ukelele, oud, baroque guitar, cuatro, cavaquinho and other wonderful sound machines. I love them all equally.
I teamed up with producer and composer Harvey Brough to record my latest musical offering, an album of songs from here and there, some remembered from my childhood, some from favourite old films, some original. It's on the Smudged Discs label and it’s called Clara & The Real Lowdown.