A Little About Soraia

Philly hard rockers Soraia warmed up the stage pre-Jovi at Summerfest, with a half-hour of blistering songs that harkened back to an earlier era.

Named after the lead singer, Soraia "Sue" Mansour, the five-piece band is the protege of Bon Jovi producer Obie O'Brian. They're currently in the studio working on a follow up to last year's debut, "Shed the Skin," which Chicago blog The Screen Door called "nine all-killer no-filler transporting blissful meditations filled with golden harmonies, funkadelic riffs and spiritual soul bearing lyrics."

You can read the interview Sue gave here.

But, here's what she had to say about Bon Jovi:

Well, I'm really grateful -- and they didn't tell us to say this -- we had our send-off show last night in Philly, and the guys in Bon Jovi want to take care of us so much. They're giving us a longer sound check just so we're comfortable up there. They've been doing it for, what, 25 years? They're at a much different level than us, but it doesn't change the fact that they're still human and they still took that into consideration. They've just been going out of their way to be supportive of us, and I think that's awesome. I think that's really cool. I don't know that every band at that level does that.

~ Hath