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She won the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2007, [4] was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010, [2] [6] and won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012. Her 2019 album Move On featured cover versions of songs by Stephen Sondheim. The album received praise from Sondheim himself ...
A. Loretta Ables Sayre; Titilayo Adedokun; Arooj Aftab; Dianna Agron; Thana Alexa; Dee Alexander; Lorez Alexandria; May Alix; Jackie Allen (musician) Laurie Allyn
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Top Vocal Album, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2014, WomanChild, Female Vocalist of the Year, 2015, Jazz Journalists Association; Top Vocal Album, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2015, For One to Love; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2016, For One to Love; Paul Acket Award 2016; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2018, Dreams and Daggers
25 famous Black singers and their most popular songs 1. Beyoncé ... American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996). ... Anita Baker has staked her claim as one of the best Black female ...
Nicole is the only person or female, as of 2024, to have ever won Best Jazz Vocal album for a recording completely written and arranged by the artist herself. [ 18 ] In 2020, Broadway World nominated Zuraitis for five Cabaret Awards.
Diane Joan Schuur (born December 10, 1953), nicknamed "Deedles", is an American jazz singer and pianist. As of 2015, Schuur had released 23 albums, and had extended her jazz repertoire to include essences of Latin, gospel, pop and country music.
According to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, songs including "Sooner or Later" are "typical Sondheim, with agile wordplay and devious chromatic harmonies". [17] At the 63rd Academy Awards held on March 25, 1991, the song won an Oscar for Best Original Song, awarded to Sondheim who did not attend the ceremony.