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Shoshana

Born: February 10, 1987

Vocalist Shoshana Bush grew up in Los Angeles singing American standards and loving Ella and Louis. After graduating from Columbua University with a degree in jazz studies, working with with George Lewis, Christine Correa and Barry Harris, she moved back to LA and spent two years gigging and expanding her repertoire. These years were highlighted by two sold out shows at Catalina Bar and Grill, one in November 2010 and another in August 2011. Shana has now moved back to NYC and is beginning to delve into the city’s vibrant jazz scene. Armored with her West coast sensibility and influenced by Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie, Art Blakey, and Ahmad Jamal, Shoshana chooses songs and creates her arrangements based upon her instincts as a storyteller and her multi-genre love of music.

Sarah Kervin

Sarah's musical roots began early, taking piano lessons with her dad around age 4 in Atlanta, GA. Equal parts Sara Bareilles and Bon Iver, her music has history, soul, and an inquisitive worldview balanced balanced with undeniable optimism. Her music is influenced by the complex harmonies of jazz, the inspired messiness of gospel, the melancholy passion of the blues, and the frankness and openness of storytelling. Her strong, soulful vocals, hypnotic lyrics, and dense sonic textures mix with driving rhythms to embody discovery, independence, and self-exploration. Growing up in music, Sarah had many musical interests and decided to study them all - attending the University of South Carolina and the University of North Texas, where she honed her skills in singing, saxophone, and piano in everything from opera to salsa

Lina Orfanos

Acclaimed international vocalist and recording artist Lina Orfanos is a mezzo-soprano who sings in popular, classical, jazz, and world musical styles. She has a lush voice with faultless intonation and great rhythmic footing. Lina is immersed in the sonorous cultures of the United States, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Singing in English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish comes easily to her. Whether performing an old Greek folk lament, paying tribute to Ella Fitzgerald’s version of “Night and Day,” or inspiring a young composer to set Spanish poems to music for her, Lina proves that songbirds can soar. The Muse whispered into Lina’s ear when she was a small girl on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera with the Children’s Chorus

Viktorija Pilatovic

Born: March 12, 1989

Viktorija Pilatovic is a Lithuanian vocalist, bandleader, composer, and educator who shares her love for jazz through her original music: poetic melodies and lyrics, modern, heart-grasping chord progressions, and virtuosic vocal performances. She is a recording artist with four releases featuring original music: "Skybridges" 2023, "The Only Light" 2019, "Stories" 2017, and "Nica's Blues" 2013. Her music has been covered in NPR live sessions, Downbeat magazine, RTVE, Discopolis Radio 3, and various other platforms.

Alongside Sílvia Pérez Cruz, her voice can be heard on "Voces," the latest big band album by renowned Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat. 
Through Berklee, she has collaborated in productions with Gilberto Gil, Victor Wooten, Michael League (Snarky Puppy), Banda Magda, and Petros Klampanis, who produced her fourth album, Skybridges, released in March 2023, featuring acclaimed Spanish flutist and saxophonist Jorge Pardo.

Veronika Čičinskaitė-Golovanova

Veronika is a jazz singer and composer of a young jazz generation in Lithuania. Since 2008 she is an active member of Lithuanian Jazz scene. 2013 Veronika graduated Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where she finished music performance (vocals) and music pedagogy master studies. She also studied in F. Liszt High Music School in Weimar, Germany (with Jeff Cascaro and Michael Schiefel). She attended numerous master classes including workshops with Bobby McFerrin, David Berkman, Victor Wooten, Alex Sipiagin. Veronika is known both for her nice and flexible voice and ability to improvise on a high level

Julia Huff

Born: May 26, 1971

Julia Huff Biography When a gifted singer spends well over a decade honing her craft, all the while wrestling with the sweet-n-sour sauce of life, it makes an exceptionally stunning story for a debut recording. Julia Huff and her understatedly titled first offering Meet…Julia Huff, are just such entities. The Chicago-based chanteuse sacrificed a budding career as a hard news journalist to return to the path of singing she was born to strut with high favor and love power. With music produced, arranged and largely composed by the legendary Jerry Peters (Phyllis Hyman, Earth Wind & Fire), Meet…Julia Huff introduces the listener to a 5-star talent as comfortable with cabaret jazz as she is with high gloss soul-pop

Barbie Anaka

Born: November 30

A clear, fresh voice: smooth jazz, seductive soul, sophisticated songwriting, deep emotions and pure pop perfection…that’s the sound of Barbie Anaka, contemporary vocalist, songwriter, pianist, producer, and music educator. A mix of eclectic influences; artists like: Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Sade and Prince; her style blends meaningful lyrics, solid grooves and catchy melodies. Rave reviews at radio, television and print media say she’s one to watch while her music climbs the charts nationally. Carol Handley, respected radio personality says, “The long awaited new Barbie Anaka project sounds fantastic

Sietske Roscam Abbing

Born: December 11, 1985

Vocalist Sietske Roscam Abbing (1985) is currently performing and recording a first album with her modern jazz-oriented band (click to navigate to the webpage in a new window), and in various projectbased formations. She studied jazz in the bachelors - and masters program at the conservatory of Amsterdam (graduated june 2012).

Alvin Chea

Alvin Chea was born in San Francisco, California. A graduate of Oakwood College, he earned a double-major Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Communications. As a veteran of the music industry, his singing voice has been heard on scores of movie soundtracks and music recordings, and he has been a Voice-over artist anchoring numerous commercials. A founding member of ten-time Grammy award winning Super group Take 6, Alvin Chea has toured the world extensively and shares glimpses of that life in his autobiography, BassLines. Over their twenty-year history, in addition to becoming the most nominated R&B, Gospel, or Jazz vocalists in Grammy history, Take 6 has garnered several venerated music industry honors

Stephie Hacker

Born: July 24

Viennese pianist, singer and composer Stephanie Hacker melts personal feelings with unaffected words and transparent music into a compilation of touching songs. The musician, educated in classical music and jazz, takes influences of these styles and mixes them with pop-sounds and modern grooves – and at the same time leaves much space for improvisation. But the main aspect of her music remains the song itself. In her performances Stephie Hacker concentrates her emotions onstage in her singing and piano playing.