Oshkosh WI native and jazz vocalist Erin Boheme was only 18 when she released her debut album on Concord but her pursuit for a record deal started long before that Singing from an early age and with parents who encouraged her musical pursuits Boheme …

With her pre-bop piano style, cool but sensual singing, and fortuitously photogenic looks, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late-'90s. By the turn of the century she was firmly established as one of the biggest sellers in jazz. Her 199…

b. Great Bend, Kansas, USA. While still a small child, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where she studied classical piano. Later, living in the San Francisco Bay area, Allyson worked in the theatre before returning to Nebraska to attend university where…

b. 28 June 1963, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Born into a musical household, Sutton listened to and appeared in numerous local productions of musical comedies and operas, usually as a member of the chorus. While studying Russian at Wesleyan University,…

Erin Bode her surname is pronounced as two syllables each with long vowels is a singer who is comfortable mixing jazz standards with well-known pop tunes and classics from the Great American Songbook in a typical performance The daughter of a Luthera…

With movie-star looks, a sensual, pitch-perfect voice, and a strong sense of jazz history, vocalist Jane Monheit made a big splash on the jazz scene around the turn of the century. She was still in her early twenties when she began turning heads with…

Madeleine Peyroux is helping to keep classic jazz vocals alive in the new millennium, and while her voice and delivery owe a supreme debt to the legendary Billie Holiday, Peyroux puts her own hip spin on Lady Day's musical tradition. As much an Ameri…

Though she always wanted to be a singer Chilean jazz vocalist Claudia Acua didnt discover jazz music until she was 15 Instead the Santiago native grew up singing traditional folk songs and current pop hits but once some of the citys jazz fans heard h…

b. 27 March 1968, New York City, New York, USA. Starting to sing as a child, Kent never thought of singing as a career, treating it only as a hobby. She took a degree in comparative literature, also studying languages. After graduation she visited En…

Singer Janita was born in Helsinki Finland beginning her performing career at age 13 and recording her debut album Believer at 19 Upon relocating to Brooklyn she made her US debut in 1998 with a self-titled effort issued on Sonys 550 imprint Ill Be F…

Influenced by Nancy Wilson Marlena Shaw and Sarah Vaughan Denise King is an expressive big-voiced singer who combines jazz with elements of RB blues and gospel King was born and raised in Philadelphia where she was exposed to RB as a child and discov…

By the age of 14 Rene Olstead had already amassed a list of credits that could prompt an envious reaction from nearly any adult Her appearances in hit films and television programs along with a major-label music debut have practically made her a vete…

b. Phoebe Laub, 17 July 1952, New York City, New York, USA. Phoebe Snow was a singer with jazz and folk influences who released a string of popular albums in the 70s that showcased her versatile, elastic contralto vocals. Snow and her family moved to…

Born on tour into a musical family Mindi Abair was playing piano by the age of five Within three years she was playing saxophone and writing songs She made her way through Berkelee performing all kinds of music from jazz to rock and RB Upon moving ba…