Cécile McLorin Salvant was born and raised in Miami, Florida of a French mother and a Haitian father. She started classical piano studies at 5, and began singing in the Miami Choral Society at 8.

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a singer and composer who grew up studying classical music, surrounded by the musical traditions in her native Miami. Her work has explored Haitian folk music, jazz standards ...

Before she won three Grammy Awards as a jazz singer, the teenaged Cécile McLorin Salvant had many musical favorites — including the Backstreet Boys, the Spice Girls, Pearl Jam, Mariah Carey and ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton ...

On a Thursday evening a few months ago, a long line snaked along Seventh Avenue, outside the Village Vanguard, a cramped basement night club in Greenwich Village that jazz fans regard as a temple. The ...

MacArthur fellow McLorin Salvant sings jazz standards as well as forgotten early songs. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she told Terry Gross in this 2015 interview. This is ...

Cecile McLoren Salvant's album Dreams and Daggers will offer you high level of reward. There's nothing ordinary about Cecile McLoren Salvant. At 27 she's made her way to the frontline of jazz by not ...

Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was born in Miami to French and Haitian parents, and started singing jazz while living in Paris. Back in the U.S., she won the Thelonious Monk vocal competition in 2010.

The vocalist who dares to take on older music with unsavory history turns inward on “Ghost Song,” her most revealing and rewarding album yet. By Giovanni Russonello Since her arrival on the jazz scene ...