Cécile McLorin Salvant at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

"If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three—Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald—it is this 23-year-old virtuoso."
—Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth, and grace. Yeah." —Wynton Marsalis

When Cecile McLorin Salvant arrived at the Kennedy Center to compete in the finals of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, she was not only the youngest finalist, but also a mystery woman with a highly unusual background. When she walked away with the first-place prize, the buzz began almost immediately. If anything, it intensified with the 2013 release of her debut album, WomanChild, and continued with her 2014 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Now, one of the jazz world's biggest rising stars returns to thrill Kimmel audiences with a stellar solo vocal show after last year's sold-out appearance with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. ...

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"If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three—Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald—it is this 23-year-old virtuoso."
—Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth, and grace. Yeah." —Wynton Marsalis

When Cecile McLorin Salvant arrived at the Kennedy Center to compete in the finals of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, she was not only the youngest finalist, but also a mystery woman with a highly unusual background. When she walked away with the first-place prize, the buzz began almost immediately. If anything, it intensified with the 2013 release of her debut album, WomanChild, and continued with her 2014 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Now, one of the jazz world's biggest rising stars returns to thrill Kimmel audiences with a stellar solo vocal show after last year's sold-out appearance with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

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