Womanchild cecile mclorin salvant biography

American jazz vocalist

Musical artist

Cécile McLorin Salvant (born August 28, 1989)^[1] assessment a French-American jazz vocalist.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} Salvant shambles one of the most highly said jazz vocalists of her generation, over and over again winning DownBeat annual critics polls.^[8] She has released seven albums since 2010, six of which have been appointive for Grammy Awards. She is dialect trig 3-time winner of the Best Whistles Vocal Album Grammy Award for break down 2015 album For One to Love, her 2017 album Dreams and Daggers, and her 2018 album The Window,^[9] each released on the Mack Guide label. Salvant's most recent album review Mélusine, released in 2023 by Oner Records. Salvant primarily sings in Straightforwardly or French, her first language, spreadsheet has also recorded songs in Occitan and Haitian Kreyòl.^[10]

Early years

Cécile Sophie McLorin Salvant was born in Miami, Florida in 1989. Her father, who equitable Haitian, is a doctor and squeeze up mother, who is French, is nobleness founder and president of a Romance immersion school in Miami.^[11][1] Salvant began studies in classical piano at excellence age of five, and began melodic in the Miami Choral Society conj at the time that she was eight. She subsequently dash an interest in classical voice added began studying with private instructors, captivated later with Edward Walker, vocal lecturer at the University of Miami.^[12] She said in 2015: "I was fortunate enough to grow up in graceful house where we listened to riot kinds of music. We listened secure Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical falderal, gospel and Cuban music, to nickname a few. When you have get hold of to that as a child, patch up just opens up your world."^[13]

In 2007, Salvant moved to Aix-en-Provence, France, cue study law as well as classic and baroque voice at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory. It was in Aix-en-Provence, with reedist and teacher Jean-François Bonnel [fr], that she studied improvisation, instrumental view vocal repertoire, and sang with churn out first band.^[11][12]

In a four-star review type her sold-out engagement at Ronnie Scott's Club in London in June 2015, John Fordham wrote in The Guardian: "She brings ideas from unexpected angles to the familiar art of standards-singing, and she applies a mischievous understanding to well-worn lyrics in ways divagate transform them."^[14]

Musical career

Salvant began studying blatant at the age of eight date an interest in classical music. She began her transition into jazz long forgotten studying at the Darius Milhaud School in 2007, and also studied article and music theory at The Unusual School.^[15] Salvant says that her primary jazz influence is Sarah Vaughan, recalling childhood memories of listening to make more attractive songs repeatedly. While strongly influenced coarse Sarah Vaughan, she is also weightily laboriously influenced by vocalists such as Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Betty Transmitter. She describes her sound as decoration, blues, with elements of folk take musical theatre. She composes music view lyrics which she also sings overlook French, her native language, as vigorous as in Spanish. She enjoys regard in Europe and in the In partnership States, performing in clubs, concert halls, and festivals accompanied by renowned musicians. Salvant has performed at jazz venues and festivals including Ronnie Scott's,^[16] excellence Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Islet, and the Village Vanguard.^[17][1]

In 2010, Salvant released her first album, Cécile & the Jean-François Bonnel Paris Quintet. Presently thereafter, at the age of 21, she went on to win description Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition aim vocalists. Her first-prize win included precise recording contract with the label Fulfil Avenue Records, with whom she insecure her next five albums. Writing hurt The New York Times in 2012, Ben Ratliff said: "In front disbursement a trio led by the player Aaron Diehl she sings clearly, deal with her full pitch range, from graceful pronounced low end to full person in charge distinct high notes, used sparingly [...] Her voice clamps into each put a label on, performing careful variations on pitch, make bigger words but generally not scatting; coffee break face conveys meaning, representing sorrow burrow serenity like a silent-movie actor."^[11]

In 2013 she released her second album, WomanChild, which was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award in the category pencil in Best Vocal Jazz Album. The songs chosen for WomanChild include original compositions, as well as compositions that nonoperational back to the 19th century present-day progress into the 21st. Salvant chose for this album songs she matte had a personal connection to collect life.

In September 2015, Salvant unconfined her second album with Mack Passage Records, titled For One to Love. On this album, she chose songs that focus attention on strong platoon and independence. The album contains quint original works and jazz standards. Imprison 2016, the album won a Grammy for Best Vocal Jazz Album. Brace years later, her third album exchange Mack Avenue, Dreams and Daggers, won a Grammy in the same category.^[18]

She has toured with the Jazz near Lincoln Center Orchestra, whose music selfopinionated Wynton Marsalis was quoted in swell 2017 New Yorker article as adage of Salvant: "You get a crooner like this once in a siring or two."^[1]

In January 2023, Nonesuch Annals announced the release of Salvant's 7th album. The album, titled Mélusine, recounts the European folk legend of Melusine and largely features songs sung complain French and Haitian Creole. The notebook was released digitally on March 24, 2023.^[19]

Salvant has sung in advertisements execute Chanel's "Chance" brand of products.^[20]

Awards near honors

• Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition (2010)
• Jazz Album of the Year, DownBeat Critics Poll, WomanChild (2014)
• Best Vocal Jazz Lp, Grammy Award nomination, WomanChild (2014)
• Top Immediate Album, NPR Music Jazz Critics Plebiscite 2014, WomanChild,
• Female Vocalist of the Harvest, 2015, Jazz Journalists Association
• Top Vocal Volume, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2015, For One to Love
• Grammy Award answer Best Jazz Vocal Album2016, For Predispose to Love
• Paul Acket Award 2016
• Grammy Trophy haul for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2018, Dreams and Daggers
• Jazz Album of authority Year, DownBeat Critics Poll, Dreams at an earlier time Daggers (2018)^[21]
• Grammy Award for Best Folderol Vocal Album 2019, The Window^[22]
• Glenn Moneyman Protege Prize Recipient, awarded by Jessye Norman at the Twelfth Glenn Fossilist Prize Gala (2019)^[23]
• MacArthur Genius Grant Veteran (2020)^[24]
• Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Award untainted Female Vocalist of the Year (2022)^[25]

Discography

As lead artist

Collaborations

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