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Cheryl Richards
Cheryl Richards is a Brooklyn-based Jazz Vocalist
About Me
Vocalist Cheryl Richards moved to New York City in 2000 and has been singing jazz and improvised music
since 2002. She studied with the great jazz pianist and improviser Connie Crothers for more than 15 years.
In the last several years, she has performed at venues throughout New York including Café Bohemia, the 55
Bar, the Stone, Greenwich Music House, Why Not Jazz Room, Cornelia Street Café, and Zeb’s in Manhattan as
well as iBeam, Roulette, Galapagos Art Space, The Drawing Room, Mirror Teahouse, and Cafe Orwell in
Brooklyn.
Her newest CD, Another Spring, was released New Artists Records in October 2022. If Not For You was
released in 2015.
Cheryl began singing at age 11 when she joined the award-winning Seattle Girls’ Choir. With the choir she
toured Europe, the United States, and Canada and participated in numerous choral festivals and competitions.
She earned her BFA in music from Cornish College of the Arts and for many years, she primarily sang classical
music. She is a co-founder of a Renaissance Vocal Quartet, Oriana, which performed at venues throughout the
Pacific Northwest, recorded a CD of madrigals and Renaissance songs, and regularly participated in festivals
including Bumbershoot and the Folklife Festival. She co-created and performed original music for a number of
choreographers and dance companies, including Jeff Bickford Dance, and performed regularly at venues
including On the Boards, the New City Theater, the Nippon Kan Theatre, and the Broadway Performance Hall
in Seattle. She is a co-founder of the band Lionfish, which recorded a CD of original music and performed
regularly throughout the Seattle area. She has also sung with Jay Clayton's New York-based Vocal Ensemble,
Different Voices.