Luciana Souza
Grammy winner Luciana Souza is one of jazz's leading singers and interpreters.
Born in Sdo Paulo, Brazil, Souza's work transcends traditional stylistic boundaries.
\ She has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor,

J  Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, and many others. She has also been a prominent
— soloist in important new works by composers Osvaldo Golijov, Derek Bermel, Patrick
Zimmerli, Rachel Grimes, Angelica Negron, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah

Kirkland Snider, performing with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra.

 

Souza has been releasing celebrated recordings-including six Grammy-nominated albums-since
2002. Her critically acclaimed new album for the Sunnyside label, The Book of Longing, presents her
settings of poems by Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, and Leonard Cohen.

Souza began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial. She earned her Bachelor of
Music degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music and a Master's in Jazz Studies from
the New England Conservatory of Music, and served as a faculty member at Berklee and the Manhattan
School of Music. She has twice been named Best Female Jazz Singer by the Jazz Joumnalists Association.

Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux's extraordinary journey is one of music industry's most
compelling. Eight albums and 22 years since her debut, Dreamland, Peyroux
continues to challenge the confines of jazz, venturing into the new stylistic terrain
with unfading curiosity. Peyroux's new album, Anthem, finds the singer-songwriter
collaborating with writers/musicians Patrick Warren, Brian MaclLeod, and David
Baerwald, who also serve as the album's rhythm section players.

 

Produced and cowritten by Larry Klein, the album came to life during the pivotal 2016 US elections.
The songs fuse Peyroux's at times political outlook with glimpses into her personal world. Honed and
patiently refined with fellow writers, they mix the public with the personal, striking an equilibrium of
dark humour and compassion. Anthem is an album bom out of the team being “together in one room,
musing over world events and letting personal experiences spark ideas.” Coming ten years after Bare
Bones, the singer-songwriter's previous album of original songs, Anthem finds Peyroux wiser with finer
articulation powers. Inspired by her idol Leonard Cohen's ability to “suffer for the work, but still present
the listener with just a friendly thought,” Peyroux sends a spiritual but clear message of hope, optimism
and resilience in the face of a turbulent reality.