An award-winning songwriter and jazz singer based in New York, Laura has performed with various musical ensembles throughout Europe, the US and Canada, and continues to produce a wide range of music: from Jazz and Folk, to the traditional Sicilian repertoire as well as Italian and Mediterranean songs. She also writes original compositions in English, Italian and Sicilian, and sings in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Sicilian, Neapolitan, and Punjabi. In 2017 Laura released her debut album Double Mirror that was welcomed with high praises by the international press, including the prestigious Downbeat Magazine, and included in the Best of 2017 by both Cadence Magazine and All About Jazz....
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An award-winning songwriter and jazz singer based in New York, Laura has performed with various musical ensembles throughout Europe, the US and Canada, and continues to produce a wide range of music: from Jazz and Folk, to the traditional Sicilian repertoire as well as Italian and Mediterranean songs. She also writes original compositions in English, Italian and Sicilian, and sings in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Sicilian, Neapolitan, and Punjabi. In 2017 Laura released her debut album Double Mirror that was welcomed with high praises by the international press, including the prestigious Downbeat Magazine, and included in the Best of 2017 by both Cadence Magazine and All About Jazz.
Since residing New York, Laura has performed at many well known jazz clubs and cultural venues such as Birdland, Kitano Jazz Club, Zinc Bar, Bar Next Door, Cornelia Street Cafe, New York University, The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), The Westchester Italian Cultural Center and The Italian American Museum, among others. She has also performed at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in front of 3.000 people, with the SGI Youth Ensemble. She has collaborated with many accomplished international musicians such as Ameen Saleem, Jon Davis, Tommy Campbell, Freddie Bryant, Saul Rubin, Michael Occhipinti, Gianluca Renzi, Fabio Morgera and Salvatore Bonafede, to name a few. In 2013-15 she collaborated with the Pakistani cultural community in New York, getting Pakistani players involved in her projects, mixing their sounds with Jazz and Italian music while challenging herself with Sufi traditional poetry and with Punjabi music.
Laura is publishing two new albums in 2020: Shakin’ It Up! - a free jazz project of improvisational compositions with the Pat Battstone & Laura Campisi Quintet (out on May 1st); and Sicily Revisited, a tribute to her roots through a modern, jazz-infused rendition of Sicilian traditional tunes. The project, born in 2014, features international jazz pianist Andrea Beneventano and bassist Alberto Fidone.
Laura is an expert of Sicilian music tradition; she is a voice teacher and a music clinician, with a Bachelor Degree in Musical Arts. She fluently speaks English, Spanish and Italian, her mother tongue, and she teaches vocals and Italian to foreigners. She’s also a tour guide in NYC and has worked as a translator for TV documentaries, as a columnist for the online magazine Bushwick Buzz, and collaborated with the online newspaper La Voce di New York.
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