Fay Victor

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Fay Victor (2016 in the Loft (Cologne) )

Fay Victor (born July 26, 1965 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American jazz singer and composer .

Live and act

Victor, whose parents are from Trinidad and Tobago , grew up in Wheatley Heights on Long Island . In the 1980s, while studying politics at Syracuse University , she began singing under the impression of the loss of her mother; she then attended the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where she studied music theory and piano . Her career as a professional musician began in clubs in the New York area and a three-month stay in Japan in 1991, which influenced her turn to jazz singing. Upon her return she performed in clubs such as Birdland , The Village Gate , Sign of the Dove and B. Smith's ; she also worked a. a. with Bernard Purdie , Walter Booker and Don Braden . Between 1996 and 2003 she lived in Amsterdam. In 1999 she released her debut album on Timeless Records , In My Own Room . Victor counts Betty Carter , Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae among her main influences. In 2010 she released the duo album Bare with guitarist Anders Nilsson as The Exposed Blues Duo , on which she interpreted her own compositions and jazz standards such as Mood Indigo , Blue Monk and Rockin 'Chair . This was followed by the album Kaiso Stories with the formation Other Dimensions in Music . In the field of jazz, Victor participated in 9 recording sessions between 1995 and 2017. She performed with the ICP Orchestra during the 2010 Music Triennale in the Cologne Philharmonic . She has performed programs with songs by Herbie Nichols since 2016.

Discographic notes

  • Lazy Old Sun (Greene Avenue Music, 2004, with Anton Goudsmit , Wolter Wierbos , Jacko Schoonderwoerd, Pieter Bast)
  • Cartwheels Through the Cosmos (Greene Avenue Music, 2007, with Anders Nilsson, Ken Filiano , Michael TA Thompson)
  • The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue Music, 2009)
  • Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011), with Daniel Carter , William Parker , Charles Downs , Roy Campbell
  • Absinthe & Vermouth (2013)
  • Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk: Wet Robots (2108)
  • Barn Songs (2019)

Web links

Fay Victor (2016 in the Loft (Cologne) )
Commons : Fay Victor  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fay Victor gives free rein to jazz vocals San Francisco Chronicle September 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  3. ^ Program Philharmonie Köln  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) May 12, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koelner-philharmonie.de
personal data
SURNAME Victor, Fay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City