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Female jazz vocals and bygone-era standards are having a welcome resurgence, especially among young people on social media, thanks to new artists like Joy and Icelandic singer Laufey.
A. Loretta Ables Sayre; Titilayo Adedokun; Arooj Aftab; Dianna Agron; Thana Alexa; Dee Alexander; Lorez Alexandria; May Alix; Jackie Allen (musician) Laurie Allyn
Jazz Times named her Best New Artist for 2021. [21] [22] In February 2021, she was featured in Women of Color on Broadway, Inc.'s music video of "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess. [23] In an interview, film director Regina King called her "a young woman who seems like Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are both living in her body." [24]
Boston Music Awards: Herself 2011 Jazz Artist of the Year Won [92] Grammy Awards: Herself 2011: Best New Artist: Won [63] Bird Songs (Joe Lovano album) 2012: Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Nominated Radio Music Society: 2013: Best Jazz Vocal Album: Won "City of Roses" Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Won "Radio Music Society"
Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay) is captivating Gen Z by writing and singing music that almost sounds like it could be from Gen WWII. Go figure, and go marvel. But the 24-year-old has always ...
Much of the jazz world seems pleased enough to claim her, as there was no resistance when her sophomore album, “Bewitched,” came out in 2023 and made history as the first album ever to top ...
Nicole Rachel "Nikki" Yanofsky (born February 8, 1994) is a Canadian jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec. She sang the CTV Olympic broadcast theme song, "I Believe", which was also the theme song of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
She began her transition into jazz while studying at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory in 2007, and also studied composition and music theory at The New School. [15] Salvant says that her main jazz influence is Sarah Vaughan , recalling childhood memories of listening to her songs repeatedly.