Aida Brandes-Hargrove

Aida Brandes-Hargrove started her professional career as a teenager working as a singer and dancer, backing up artists from across different genres like RnB singer Joe, David Hasselhoff and Menudo’s Angelo Garcia and performing for companies like Reebok and Fila. At 19 she was signed to major recording studio in Germany as part of a duo and opened for acts like Boyz II Men and MC Lyte. Aida also plays piano and enjoys writing and arranging. She is self taught and draws from a diverse pool of music with its main roots in jazz, hip hop and rnb.

Her Big Band arrangements have been featured by the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Slide Hampton, the Astoria Big Band and the NYC Ska Orchestra. Her original songs have been finalists and winners in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, as well as the Great American Song Contest. Other official selections include the Long Island International Film Expo, Golden Door International Film Festival, Lady Filmmakers Festival. 

Aida is the widow of the late, great Roy Hargrove and the president of Roy Hargrove Legacy. She runs the day to day operations of the company and oversees its music releases, as well as its publishing arm Roy Hargrove Legacy Publishing. She is also the executive director of the Roy Hargrove Big Band, which she relaunched in early 2022 with the help of long time big band alumni Bruce Williams and Jason Marshall.

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