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Michelle Nicolle

Michelle Nicolle is Australia's most celebrated female jazz vocalist.

About Me

“I have loved Michelle Nicolle’s singing perpetually and without ceasing since first I heard her [in 1998]. Michelle is a singer born to charm, enlighten and seduce through music. I only wish she lived in the States somewhere so I could manage to hear her more often.” Kurt Elling 2012

Michelle Nicolle is one Australia’s most celebrated jazz performers Bell Award (2017), Mo Award 2001, 2003 & 2004, National Jazz Award (1998) winner and A.R.I.A Finalist 2001, 2004, 2009. Recipients of the 2017 Bell Australian Jazz Award for Vocal Album of the Year the The Michelle Nicolle Quartet are critically acclaimed as one of the most prolific and inventive jazz ensembles in the country – 2019 marks their 21st birthday! They’ve released 8 CDs and touring extensively throughout Australia and internationally – including South Korea, Finland, and Czech Republic, Asia Pacific Festival (Russia), Tokyo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland), New Zealand, Turkey, Estonia, Singapore. Michelle has performed concerts in London (2016), New Orleans (2017), Miami University and JazzVox in Seattle, USA (2017, 2019), University of North Texas, Oceanside Jazz Festival 2019(Mira Costa, USA).

“Michelle Nicolle stands above any other Jazz singer in the country....*****” Weekend Australian 2001 “..all the band had to do was set up a golden glow of warmth, soft groove and space and Nicolle was soaring to places you will be taken by few singers. In the world, I mean.” John Shand, The Age, 2016

My Jazz Story

The first jazz record I bought was Vince Jones, For All Colours

My House Concert Story

I have performed many jazz house concerts, both in Melbourne, Australia through Small Space Music, and in Seattle, USA through JazzVox. Beautiful, intimate gigs, hosted by warm, generous people.