Raised in Miami, Salvant started classical voice training as a teenager. While studying for a degree in French law, she also took classes on baroque and jazz music at the Darius Milhaud Music Conservatory in France.
Salvant is no stranger to accolades. Winning the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010, she later went on to receive the MacArthur Fellowship and the Duke Artist Award in 2022. She was also in receipt of the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three years consecutively, igniting passion wherever she sings.
Her song interpretations are rich and unique, as she traverses blues, jazz, baroque and folk with enviable ease, and an imaginative and dramatic flair. The New Yorker has said of her:
“You get a singer like this once in a generation or two”
While Spin describes her as:
“…her generation’s most imaginative and thrilling jazz interpreter.”
Poster printing to advertise the jazz festival is a means by which local fans may be drawn to the evening of extraordinary jazz.
Cecile McLorin Salvant is appearing at Hamer Hall, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004 on 29th October as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Tickets cost from $94.