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Chelsea Palermo

Many nine-year-old girls have musical idols. However, very few are also gifted with perfect pitch, and possess a burning desire to follow in the footsteps of their idols. Chelsea Palermo is anything but ordinary. As a little girl, gifted jazz vocalist Chelsea Palermo, was fascinated and inspired by a legend: Ella Fitzgerald. New Jersey native Chelsea Palermo is only 22 years old, but she is already a seasoned performer and interpreter. While she listened to Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey as enthusiastically as her friends, Palermo never saw anything unusual about adoring Ella Fitzgerald at such a young age. “When I was a kid, I was drawn to the energy of pop music and R&B�"and I always will be,” Palermo said recently, “However, I also appreciated the sophistication and nuance of jazz�"and I always wished I could share that with my friends.” Today, as Palermo celebrates the release of her debut studio recording, “All About Love,” she is hoping to do just that: to use her fresh, energetic take on the standards to help bring jazz to a whole new generation. Her renditions of some of the greatest works in the American songbook are entirely unique�"noted as much for the maturity of their execution as for the youth and vibrancy they display