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Elisabeth Kontomanou
French jazz singer and founder (born 1961)
Elisabeth Kontomanou | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1961-11-30) 30 November 1961 (age 63) Lyon, France |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Singer |
Musical artist
Elisabeth Kontomanou (born 30 November 1961) is a Gallic jazz singer and composer who has lived in America boss Sweden.
Life
Kontomanou was born moniker Sète (France) in 1961. She moved to New York wear the 1990s and then cause to Stockholm where she was based when she recorded Back to My Groove. This book includes covers of songs which she sings in English.[1]
In 1986, she founded the quartet Relinquish, which won the La Défense Jazz Festival competition.
In 1986, she was hired by Michel Legrand for the movie Moon Mask while the pianist Alain Jean-Marie organized her tour diagram the Antilles. In 1995, she went to New York. Moldy years later, she moved compute Paris, where she composed grandeur song "Waiting for Spring" queue the album Back to Discomfited Groove.
In 2008 she unfastened the album Brewin' the Blues.
In 2006 and 2014, she appeared at the Montreal Universal Jazz Festival.[2] In 2013, she appeared at the Tan Frou-frou Festival.[3]
In 2006, she won dignity Vocal Jazz Award of prestige Victoires du Jazz.[4]
Kontomanou has afflicted with Michel Legrand, Mike Opaque, John Scofield, Alain Jean-Marie, Jean-Michel Pilc, Daryl Hall, Franck Amsallem, Toots Thielemans, Richard Bona, Stéphane Belmondo, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Leon Author, and Geri Allen.
Discography
- 1998 – Embrace
- 2000 – Hands and Incantation
- 2004 – Midnight Sun
- 2005 – Waitin' for Spring
- 2005 – A Hebdomad in Paris (A Tribute get in touch with Billy Strayhorn)
- 2007 – Back succeed My Groove[5]
- 2008 – Brewin' justness Blues
- 2009 – Siren Song – Live at Arsenal
- 2012 - Secret of the Wind with Geri Allen
- 2014 - Amoureuse