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Cyrille Aimee & the ASU Concert Jazz Orchestra at Tempe Center for the Arts
Courtesy of Woody Wilson | Posted on September 18, 2015
Where
Tempe Center for the Arts
700 W. Rio Salado
Tempe, AZ
Map
(480) 350-2829
When
Sat, October 24, 2015
7:30 pm
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Musicians
About
Cyrille Aimée
Vocalist Cyrille Aimée was primarily raised in France by a French father and Dominican mother. As a curious child in Samois-sur-Seine, she would sneak out of her bedroom window to wander into the nearby gypsy encampments filled with those attending the annual Django Reinhardt Festival.
She quickly fell in love with gypsy music and way of life; years later she would sing on street corners with friends while traveling across Europe. While in the midst of one such odyssey, she found herself at the Montreux Jazz Festival, where she won first prize in the vocal competition – which included the financing of her first self-produced album....