You pronounce it “eh-lee-AH-neh eh-LEE-ahs” which should be under “sultry” in your nearest dictionary. Go ahead and look it up. I’ll wait. Herbie Hancock loves her, Bob Brookmeyer cut a whole record of her charts, and she’s cut an entire album of Jobim. But she sells herself perfectly well with her songs.
– Andrew Hamlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwbnHjoC8Tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4m0w9xm8og