Cécile Verny
Cécile Verny (* 1969 in Abidjan , Ivory Coast ) is a German - French jazz singer of African descent and front woman of the Cécile Verny Quartet .
Live and act
Cécile Verny grew up as a child in Ivory Coast and moved to France in 1981 at the age of twelve. At the age of 17 she gained her first stage experience as a singer. Just one year later, she and three musicians founded the jazz quartet that bears her name in Strasbourg in 1989 . In 1989 she moved to Freiburg im Breisgau , in whose suburb Umkirch she still lives today. She has two children (* 1997 and * 1999).
Cécile Verny writes her own lyrics and sings them mainly in French and English , but also in German and in her mother tongue.
Cécile Verny and her band have received numerous awards and, among other things, she and her quartet won the German Record Critics' Prize in 2006 for The Bitter and The Sweet as an “artistically outstanding new release” in the field of jazz.
On May 27, 2020, she opened the live streaming series #inFreiburgzuhause with a concert in the Jazzhaus Freiburg to support the cultural scene in Freiburg during the corona pandemic, the other concerts are to take place every 4 days.
Discography
Cécile Verny Quartet
- Oazoo (1992)
- Patchwork (1995); for Jazz D'Or
- Expressive Impressions (1995); live at the ZMF
- Coquelicot - melodie de vie (1997); Cécile Verny Quartet and others
- Got a Ticket (1998)
- Métisse (1999)
- Kekeli (2002)
- Cécile Verny Quartet - live in Antibes (DVD, 2004)
- The Bitter and the Sweet (2006)
- Amoureuse (2008)
- Keep some secrets within (2010)
- Fear & Faith (2013)
- Memory Lane (2014)
- Of Moons and Dreams (2019)
other projects
- Le Jazz a plein tubes (1991) with the Orchester Regional de Jazz d'Alsace
- Dimba (1995) with Tschisungu Kalomba & Kassala
- Jazz Affairs (1996) with Peter Baumgärtner's Jazzfriends
- Dance Away Your Sorrows (1996) with NDeez Soul (with Max Zentawer )
- Of Course (2000) with Kilian Heitzler Big Band
- A New Beginning (2001) with Intuit
- I'm on My Way (2003) with Reiner Regel and Gottfried Böttger
- Intuit 2004 (2004) with Intuit
Solo CDs
- European Songbook (2005) with the musicians of the quartet and three winds (including Sébastien Jarrousse )
- Cécile Verny & Johannes Maikranz My songs ( GLM 2019)
Web links
- Sound carrier by Cécile Verny in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cécile Verny at Discogs (English)
- Cécile Verny website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Streaming project #inFreiburgzuhause wants to help culture , Peter Disch, Badische Zeitung, May 22, 2020, accessed May 27, 2020
- ↑ https://www.infreiburgzuhause.de/ InFreiburgzuHause
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verny, Cecile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abidjan |