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Toni Jannotta
Member Since: 2010 | Location: Santa Barbara | Page Views: 1,524 
About Me
Toni is a modern jazz vocalist who loves vocalese, songwriting, and producing innovative jazz productions that help community.
Toni began as a dancer who picked up the violin. She studied music theory, stage and film acting, ballet and modern jazz dance. During her incarnation as an actress, she performed in theater and film with a smattering of television, and taught ballet & modern jazz dance. In the next incarnation as a jazz vocalist, she recorded live performances (4 CD's to date), created and filmed a live performance where homeless storytellers were backed by jazz improvisers and later turned it into a documentary, wrote and produced a storybook about recovering from trauma with a 21-1/2 minute musical suite to accompany it, made music videos, traveled to Europe to gig and give vocal improvisation workshops, and began receiving cultural arts funding. She continues to play venues in Southern California, coaches voice, pursues innovative expressions of improvisation to mount live performances in her local community, and constantly longs to get back to Europe.
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This page was last updated on 2025-11-19.
