Cecile Salvant - Jazz Singer

Cecile McLorin Salvant was nominated as a first-time nominee in the Best Jazz Vocal album category for 2014 Grammy Awards. This is a Haitian-American artist who released an album, WomanChild, in May last year. This album was at number four on the Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.

The history of Cécile McLorin Salvant starts in Miami, Florida. She was born to a Haitian father and a French mother. Her music blood started early enough, at age five, when she started playing piano. She then went ahead to study singing at the age of eight, in the Miami Choral Society.

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Miami native and Haitian-American Cécile Mc Lorin Salvant is a jazz singer, whose emergence onto the music scene has created a stir. Born of French-Haitian parents, she resided in Paris, France, for a period, where she studied jazz improvisation and landed a spot as lead vocalist with her initial band.

Returning to America, she entered the Thelonious Monk jazz-singing competition and won it, creating further buzz about her preternatural vocal talent. Two years later, Salvant has released her first CD, WomanChild.

Cécile Mc Lorin Salvant - Le front caché sur tes genoux

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