Indra Rios Moors
Indra Rios-Moore (* 1980 in New York ) is an American jazz singer .
Live and act
Rios-Moore is the daughter of a Puerto Rican social worker and jazz bassist Don Moore ; she was strongly influenced by her (she single) mother's record collection. When she was 13, her mother realized her singing talent and encouraged her to apply to Mannes College of Music . In the same year she began to study classical singing there, which she then continued at Smith College .
She followed the jazz musician Benjamin Trærup , whom she married, to Denmark, where in 2007 she and the bassist Thomas Sejthen founded a trio that quickly became known in Scandinavia. Her debut album Indra was nominated for a Danish Music Award in 2010 in the category “Best Jazz Vocal Album” . Rios-Moore then received this award for her second album In Between . The third album, Heartland , was created with the help of producer Larry Klein in 2013; the resulting single Little Black Train was number 1 on the iTunes Jazz Charts in Germany, France and Denmark. In 2016 she and her band won the BMW Welt Jazz Award .
Web links
- Web presence
- Biography (jazzecho.de)
- Concert review ( Stuttgarter Nachrichten )
- interview
- Indra Rios-Moore at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anita Harris All about the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity 2004, p. 269
- ↑ Indra Rios-Moore and band win the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2016 Jazzzeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rios Moors, Indra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , United States |