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Ledesna

Have Voice, Will Travel. Polyglot. Stage Mage. Quintuple Threat. Sonic Curator.

About Me

JENNIFER JADE LEDESNA Grammy-nominated stage mage & Bronxite polyglot, is an alumna of New School Jazz & LaGuardia Arts. A Montreux Jazz Voice Competition Finalist, Equity actress, & “Betty Carter Jazz Ahead” composer, Ms. Jade often performs at “Aux Trois Mailletz” in Paris, “Jazz Na Avenida” in Brazil, & the she was also the first & former Afro-Latina Artistic Director of the legendary “Minton’s Playhouse” in Harlem, NYC.   She's sung at Carnegie Hall in Bobby McFerrin’s “INSTANT OPERA!”, in the World Premiere Tour of “CHAPEL/CHAPTER” w the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Co. JJ’s also graced the international stages of Switzerland’s CHORUS Jazz Club, Norway's “Silda Jazz Fest” w her group ”RAJAFRO”, Saint Croix's “Take Five Fest”, Santiago de Chile's “Teatro Municipal de Las Condes”, Austria's PORGY & BESS, & Lincoln Center, to name a few. 

JJ recently starrred as Tempest in the feature film SINCE I LEFT YOU, Jade in the film MEADOWLARK, “Tinima” in the opera-musical HATUEY: MEMORY OF FIRE!, & “The Angel / Jazz Singer” in the world premiere of the “SUGAR HILL NUTCRACKER” by Ellington & Strayhorn!   She’s performed with Roy Hargrove, David Amram, Elew, Dave Valentin, Bobby Sanabria, Wycliffe Gordon, Joatan Nascimento, Junior Mance, James Carter, Benny Powell, Candido Camero, Janis Siegel, Wynton Marsalis, Brenda Braxton, & David Antonio Cruz, among others. 

Check out her album “TRUTH!”