Cécile McLorin Salvant

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Cécile McLorin Salvant with Sing The Truth at the Rudolstadt Festival 2019
Cécile McLorin Salvant 2011

Cécile McLorin Salvant (born August 28, 1989 in Miami ) is an American jazz singer and composer.

Live and act

McLorin Salvant grew up in Miami; her father, a doctor, is from Haiti ; her mother, who is the headmistress in Miami, has French- Guadeloupian roots. As a child she took classical singing and piano lessons. After finishing high school, she moved to Aix-en-Provence to study political science and law; She also trained in classical singing at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud there before studying jazz singing with Jean-François Bonnel .

She recorded her debut album Cécile , which was released on the Japanese label Agathe , with the quartet of Jean-François Bonnel; it received the Prix ​​du disque of the Hot Club de France . In 2010 she won the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington DC Then she worked in New York with an accompanying trio led by the pianist Aaron Diehl . In 2012 she studied with Bill Kirchner in The New School Jazz Program ; in the same year she worked on Jacky Terrasson's album Gouache .

In early 2013 her album Woman Child was released by Mack Avenue Records , on which she accompanied Rodney Whitaker , James Chirillo , Aaron Diehl and Herlin Riley . In 2014 she won the DownBeat Critics Poll in four categories. In 2015 she released her third album For One to Love , which focuses on the theme of love. It was named best album at the 58th Grammy Awards in 2016 in the category "Best Jazz Vocal Album".

Her role models include Abbey Lincoln , Sarah Vaughan , Betty Carter , Bessie Smith , Billie Holiday , Ethel Waters and Babs Gonzales . She sings in English, French and Spanish, three languages ​​in which she is at home.

At the Jazzfest Berlin 2015 she played the opening concert, which was also broadcast live on November 5, 2015 on Deutschlandradio Kultur . The pianist Fred Nardin belonged to her accompanying band .

Her fourth album Dreams and Daggers was released in late September 2017; for this she received her second Grammy in 2018 . The following year she released the album The Window with Sullivan Fortner as a duo partner ; it was named the best jazz vocal album in 2019 .

Together with Angélique Kidjo and Lizz Wright , she is part of the Sing The Truth project . Under the artistic direction of drummer Terri Lyne Carrington , the musicians dedicate themselves to the work of committed women such as Odetta , Billie Holiday, Miriam Makeba and others.

Awards

  • 2010: 1st place at the Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition in Washington DC
  • 2016 : Grammy Award for the album For One to Love in the category "Best Jazz Vocal Album"
  • 2016: Paul Acket Award , North Sea Jazz Festival
  • 2018 : Grammy Award for the album Dreams and Daggers in the category "Best Jazz Vocal Album"
  • 2019 : Grammy Award for the album The Window in the category "Best Jazz Vocal Album"

Discography

  • Cécile & the Jean-François Bonnel Paris Quintet (Cecile McLorin Salvant, 2010)
  • WomanChild (Mack Avenue Records, 2013)
  • For One to Love (Mack Avenue, 2015)
  • Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue, 2017)
  • The Window (Mack Avenue, 2018), with Sullivan Fortner

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c see Allmusic Biography
  2. ↑ Review of Cécile at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Ben Ratliff : No Nonsense, a Little Scatting and Plenty of Idiosyncratic Style (2010) in The New York Times
  4. ↑ Review of the album (2013) at JazzTimes
  5. ↑ Salvant Wins Four Categories in DownBeat Critics Poll ( Memento from June 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Meeting (NPR)
  7. ↑ Ben Ratliff: A Young Vocalist Tweaks Expectations - Cécile McLorin Salvant, Jazz Vocalist, Tweaks Expectations (2012) in The New York Times
  8. ↑ McLorin portrait , The Guardian of June 4, 2015 based on their concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (English)
  9. ↑ "When it comes to jazz, there is always something moving forward" , Deutschlandradio Kultur from November 4, 2015
  10. ↑ Program for the Rudolstadt Festival 2019, p. 102
personal data
SURNAME McLorin Salvant, Cecile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida , United States