Jazz Cocktail Hour: Vocalist Kerensa Gray at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center

About

20th Annual Billie Holiday Vocal Competition winner Kerensa Gray is often compared to the likes of jazz royalty - Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald and contemporaries such as Diana Krall.

As a gifted songwriter, this dynamic vocalist brings fresh insight and infectious energy to her approach of beloved classics and a transparency in her songwriting that speaks to that for which we all yearn - truth without compromise. Kerensa’s music finds balance in her ability to skillfully interweave melodies of jazz, blues and folk into a sound that is undeniably and uniquely hers while her talent as a gifted vocalist unearths yet unseen perspectives into the standards that are the soundtracks to our lives.