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Suzanne Cloud
Suzanne is a singer-songwriter and Director of the Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project
About Me
Suzanne Cloud is an editor, writer, historian, and jazz singer-songwriter who lives in Collingswood, NJ.
Since receiving her doctorate in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Cloud has
authored four young-adult American history books and was a contributor to the African-American
National Biography Project for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She's a long-time
contributing writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and founding director of Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that
aids local Philadelphia-area jazz and blues musicians in crisis. She wrote and directed “Last Call at the
Downbeat” (a show about Dizzy Gillespie's sojourn in Philly) for the Philadelphia International Festival
of the Arts 2013. Since 2018, Cloud has been the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project, a
nonprofit dedicated to building a Philadelphia jazz archive.
Suzanne is still singing in the Philadelphia/New York area and has recorded 6 albums since her first
release in 1996.
