Anne Ducros
Anne Ducros (born December 1, 1959 in Longfossé in the Pas-de-Calais department ) is a French jazz singer.
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Ducros studied singing at the Conservatory of Boulogne-sur-Mer and then studied law in Lille , taking singing lessons on the side. In addition to baroque music, she also turned to jazz and practiced scat singing based on models such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan . She founded her own quartet and in 1989 recorded her first album "Don't you take a change". She began touring in jazz clubs, where she was accompanied by René Urtreger , for example . From 2001 she recorded jazz with Dreyfuss, first “Purple Song” with pianists Gordon Beck and Didier Lockwood , followed in 2003 by “Close your Eyes” with Toots Thielemans and Minino Garay , in 2005 “Piano..Piano” with Chick Corea and Jacky Terrasson as well as Enrico Pieranunzi and Urtreger at the piano (inter alia with Jacques Préverts “Les Feuilles Mortes”) and “Urban Tribe” 2007 with Olivier Hutman at the piano, in which she a. a. Title of the Beatles and interpreted by Otis Redding . She also worked with Sarah Morrow .
In 1986 she received a prize as best soloist and singer at the Dunkirk Jazz Festival, and in 1989 first prizes at the Vienna Festival. In 2001 she received the “ Prix Billie Holiday ” from the Académie du Jazz in Paris. In 2002 she won a Django d'Or (France) . In 2002 she received a “Victoire de la Musique” and in 2003 a “ Les Victoires du Jazz ” (both for best vocal artist).
From 1992 to 1993 she taught at the ARPEJ in Paris and since 1994 has been the director of the “Prélude” jazz vocal school in Paris. She also gives master classes abroad.
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- ↑ so she received the award two years in a row. The division into jazz and classical music at the “Victoires de la Musique” did not exist until 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ducros, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Longfossé |