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The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to female recording artists for quality jazz vocal performances (songs or albums).
Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. [1] She is one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins [2] as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.
She won Grammy Awards for best female jazz vocal performance in both 1986 and 1987 and has had three other Grammy nominations. Schuur has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall , The Kennedy Center , and the White House , and has performed with many artists including Ray Charles , Frank Sinatra , Quincy Jones , and Stevie Wonder .
Now Joy is following a 2024 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance with a sold-out festival kick-off event at this year’s Savannah Music Festival. Female jazz vocals and bygone-era standards are ...
Her album How Love Begins earned Nicole her second Grammy Award nomination and first award win in 2024 for Best Jazz Vocal Album. [17] 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]
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz music genre. Awards in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the ...
INTERVIEW: With deep, diving vocals that recall jazz icons of yesteryear, the 23-year-old from Iceland is now more popular than Björk and Sigur Rós. She speaks with Ellie Muir about learning to ...
Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards [4] and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the '00s decade chart. [5] In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me, which was a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk and pop.