Nikki Yanofsky

	Yanofsky signs her first CD (2008)
	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Nikki
	Singles
	I believe
	Wavin 'Flag ; (with Young Artists for Haiti )

Jazz Fest Vienna (2010)

Nikki Yanofsky (2008)

Nikki Yanofsky (born February 8, 1994 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian jazz and pop singer. She sang the Canadian National Anthem and I Believe, the theme song from CTV for the occasion , at the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver .

Live and act

Yanofsky grew up in Montreal . As a so-called child prodigy , the to, among other scat dominated, she joined in 2006 at the Montreal Jazz Festival on with famous musicians; she was also invited to this festival in the following years. Her rendition of Airmail Special , produced by Tommy LiPuma , was released in 2007 on the Verve album We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song ; this made Yanofsky the youngest singer ever to record for the label. Then she recorded the song Gotta Go My Own Way for High School Musical 2 . She also played with Herbie Hancock and will.i.am the standard Stompin 'at the Savoy for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's audio book On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance , which was published in 2008.

She performed with Marvin Hamlisch in February 2008 at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall . In Toronto she sang with the Count Basie Orchestra in the same year . She has also given concerts at the Ottawa Jazz and Blues Festival, the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival and the Ginza International Jazz Festival in Japan. She has also performed with Oliver Jones , Wyclef Jean and Celine Dion .

In 2008 she performed songs by Ella Fitzgerald at the Montreal Jazz Festival ; the gig was released as her debut album Ella ... of Thee I Swing . The album received good reviews and was nominated twice for the Juno Award in 2009. In 2009 she was named Favorite Jazz Artist at the Canadian Independent Music Awards .

I Believe, their debut single , was released on the opening day of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and had its first radio broadcast that same day; a week later the song came to number one in the Canadian charts thanks to high download numbers and strong airplay . Her first studio album was released in North America in early summer and in Europe in fall 2010. At the 2010 Montreux Jazz Festival, she jammed with Herbie Hancock at the request of Quincy Jones .

In 2014, Yanofsky released her third studio album, Quincy Jones, produced by Little Secret. In the same year she contributed as a guest singer in particular the scat passages to I Love Paris / J'aime Paris , the seventh of thirteen tracks on the album Paris by the French chanson singer Zaz , which was released in November 2014.

Discography

Albums

2008: Ella ... of Thee I Swing (CD / DVD)
2010: Nikki
2014: Little Secret
2020: Turn Down the Sound

Singles

2010: I Believe
2010: I Got Rhythm
2010: Cool My Heels
2010: For Another Day
2010: Wavin 'Flag (with Young Artists for Haiti )
2014: Something New
2016: Young Love

Web links

Commons : Nikki Yanofsky - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Charts US / CA

^ Ilan Mester: Nikki Yanofsky Sings Olympic Theme Song . January 22, 2010. Archived from the original on February 15, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 12, 2010. @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Nikki Yanofsky. Artist information. (No longer available online.) Montrealjazzfest.com, archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; accessed on August 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ Biography at AllMusic

↑ Irwin Block: Young Nikki Yanofsky already a jazz veteran. In: Montreal Gazette . June 22, 2011, archived from the original on June 23, 2011 ; accessed on May 10, 2014 .

↑ Christop Dullach: Nikki Yanofsky. I have a dream. Die Zeit , July 31, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .

↑ Nikki Yanofsky reveals her "Little Secret". In: www.universal-music.de. Universal Music , May 9, 2014, accessed May 10, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Yanofsky, Nikki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian jazz and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal , Quebec, Canada

[1] Charts US / CA