Results for "Singersongwriter"

Penni Layne

Born: May 16

Penni Layne has always lived at the intersection of soul and jazz, drawn less to genre lines than to songs that feel lived-in, intimate, and true. The Boston-based vocalist and songwriter brings together the sophistication and phrasing of jazz with the emotional directness of soul and R&B, creating music that feels both timeless and distinctly her own.

Throughout her musical career, Layne has explored the space between genres, embracing everything from jazz standards and soulful interpretations to original compositions written alongside her longtime musical collaborator and husband, Larry Jackson. Together, the two share a creative partnership built on a mutual love of songwriting, storytelling, and the freedom to let music evolve naturally.

Ingrid Gerstmann

Ingrid Gerstmann is a jazz vocalist and composer living in New York City. In August 2024 she  released her first 6-song EP of all original work, "Ingrid Gerstmann Quartet Live at Silvana." She has played gigs at Smalls, Symphony Space, Silvana, Club Bonafide, and The West End. She has also performed with the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia University and the New York Jazz Workshop. After covering standards and popular songs, in 2024 Gerstmann pivoted to performing all orginal work. She performs most often as a quartet with John Austria on piano, Donald Nicks on bass, and Taru Alexander on drums

Diana Leoport

Born: October 2, 1997

Diana Leoport is a Mexican jazz vocalist, songwriter, and performance artist with over a decade of training and experience on the national and international jazz scene. Her artistry blends a refined jazz language with contemporary influences, poetic storytelling, and an emotional stage presence that has captivated audiences in Mexico and abroad.

Leoport’s development as a jazz artist has been deeply shaped by formal training and intensive residencies with world-class musicians. In 2024, she was selected for the prestigious Antonio Sánchez Jazz Residency at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, where she trained with Sánchez, Thana Alexa, Fabián Almazán, Ben Wendel, Nir Felder, and Linda May Han Oh. She has also studied at Barcelona’s Liceu Conservatori, participating in masterclasses with Aaron Parks, Joel Ross, and Joey Calderazzo, and at Festival Jazzuv, learning from Miguel Zenón, Danilo Pérez, and Henry Cole. Her academic background includes studies at the Escuela Superior de Música (CDMX) 2015 and the Centro Morelense de las Artes (CEMA) 2013 and Taller De Musics (BCN) 2025.

Rafael Moreno

Born: February 1, 1983

Rafael Enrique Moreno Vega was born on February 1, 1983, in Panama City. He is the son of Rafael E. Moreno Pino and Elizabeth P. Vega de Moreno. A singer and songwriter, at the age of 5, he was already singing, but it was at the age of 8 that he began doing it more regularly at family parties, performing a repertoire of boleros, waltzes, and pasillos by artists such as Julio Jaramillo, Daniel Santos, Orlando Contreras, and others from the old guard that his parents and grandparents used to listen to.

At 17, he learned to play his first guitar chords with teacher Lucía Dorelis Pérez, although as a child, despite efforts by his uncle L. Raúl Moreno and his cousin Yira Castro to teach him, he did not like the instrument. During that time, he composed his first songs. That same year, 2000, he was hired for the first time by Professor Gilberto Campos and his group Rumba 5. A shy Rafael only sang the song "Conciencia" by composer Omar Alfanno twice during the night, as it was the only salsa song he knew.

Roy Ben Bashat

Born: April 7, 2000

Guitarist, composer, and songwriter born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. Roy Ben Bashat was recognized as a prodigy from a young age and was accepted into the jazz music department at the prestigious Thelma Yelin school for the arts. During high school, he played with renowned jazz artists in Israel and performed at local venues and festivals. In 2017, he was granted a full schoarship from Berklee College of Music, and relocated to Boston in 2018. 

Roy Ben Bashat graduated from Berklee College of Music and moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2022. Shortly after moving to NYC, Ben Bashat started playing with some of the Jazz leaders in the city, including Luis Perdomo, Eric McPherson, Lex Korten, Noah Preminger, among others. 

Joan Watson-Jones

Born: September 24, 1974

Joan Watson-Jones Releases Fifth Album, LOVE SINGS

There are vocalists and there are singers. A vocalist hits every note perfectly and has honed his or her craft to sonic perfection. A singer simply sings songs. The goal is not perfection, but communication. The vocalist is a high wire performer, while the singer tells stories closer to the earth. Joan Watson-Jones is a singer,' says jazz journalist Eugene Holley, Jr. in the liner notes to the singer's fifth album, Love Sings, set for release on Friday, September 18.

For three decades, Watson-Jones, the New York City-born, Derry, New Hampshire-based artist has been independently building herself into an endearing and entertaining singer/lyricist, as evidenced by her other four albums: One More Year (1996), I Thought About You (2006), Quiet Conversation - A Duet (2013) and Choices (2021). Buoyed by the piano and tap dance lessons she received as a child growing up in Harlem, along with her master's degree in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Watson-Jones, who also hosts the podcast, The Jazz Room, tells syncopated stories about life and love that everyone can relate to.

Ann Hampton Callaway

Born: May 30, 1959

Ann Hampton Callaway is one America's most gifted and prolific artists. A leading champion of the great American Songbook, she's made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted by Broadwayworld.com as "Performer of the Year" and two years in a row as "Best Jazz Vocalist," Ann is born entertainer. Her unique singing style that blends jazz and traditional pop, making her a mainstay in concert halls, theaters and jazz clubs as well as in the recording studio, on television, and in film. She is best known for Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical "Swing!" and for writing and singing the theme song to the hit TV series "The Nanny." Callaway is a Platinum Award winning writer whose songs are featured on seven of Barbra Streisand's recent CD's

Tetel Di Babuya

Born: March, 1986

Tetel Di Babuya (teteldibabuya.com) is a Jazz-influenced Brazilian singer-songwriter and violinist. She performs and composes in both English and Portuguese, creating a compelling sound that blends (and stirs) Jazz, Blues, Bossa Nova and Standards, old and new. As an accomplished professional violinist, Tetel Di Babuya has played with some of the most renowned orchestras in Brazil, and in her solo career, audiences are drawn to her passionate and entertaining live performances. Her songwriting is deeply personal, melodically original, and lyrically surprising, displaying a subtle and ironic sense of humor. Her debut album, Meet Tetel, introduces listeners to Tetel’s musical inventiveness and compelling storytelling

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