Jazz vocalist Cyrille Aimée (pronounced: "Surreal Emmay") has a culturally rich background – Dominican and French, Gypsy – and conservatory training (SUNY Purchase) that help to form the rhythmic and expressive foundation by which a jury of legendary vocalists including Al Jarreau, Kurt Elling, Dianne Reeves and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
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Jazzwise (UK)
July 22, 2024
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Kevin Le Gendre reports back from a stunning series of gigs in Sofia, Bulgaria
It says that when she was a child in France, she lived in a town that hosted an annual festival named for innovative Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, and the event attracted Gypsies who camped near her home.
She bounded on stage at The Egg’s Swyer Theatre on Friday evening with a 1000-watt smile and a wild, brown mop of curls bouncing around her head as she launched into “Little White Lies.
One of the singer’s two guitarists came from French and Italian parentage, her drummer was born in England but raised in Sri Lanka and her bassist possessed a purely Aussie heritage.
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