Mélusine, the figure from 14th century French mythology, was a half-woman/half-snake who, when her serpentine self was spied on by her betraying lover, turned into a dragon and took flight. Mélusine, ...

CAMBRIDGE — “In the words of my sister, I am truly a lucky brat,” said Cécile McLorin Salvant, pausing eight songs into her Celebrity Series of Boston set at Sanders Theatre on Friday to praise her ...

Since arriving on the jazz scene about a dozen years ago, this triple Grammy winner has made a practice of shining a black light on the unsavory history of American popular song. She sings standards, ...

Jazz singer and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant, who won the MacArthur “genius” grant in 2020, has announced her new album Ghost Song. It’s her label debut for Nonesuch and it arrives March 4. Today, ...

But the treasure trove of marvels that is Ghost Song exceeds all expectations. Whether it’s the unaccompanied fragment of the sean-nós song “Cúirt Bhaile Nua” segueing into Kate Bush’s “Wuthering ...

Cécile McLorin Salvant became the next legendary artist to host a residency at the Blue Note in New York City. Here’s Showbiz Cheat Sheet review of her first of many performances at the jazz club.

The feeling of being haunted—by ghosts, real or imagined; by faded or unrequited love; in ways that spark terror, sadness or even hope—has long captured the imagination of writers, artists and ...

LENOX — There’s a natural inclination to want to label artists by genre. But some singers consistently expand the boundaries of their craft, necessitating frequent reevaluation. Cécile McLorin Salvant ...

Perhaps it’s her gargantuan talent, or a fervid childhood imagination fueled by fairytales and folk legends, but somewhere along the line Cécile McLorin Salvant acquired an abiding fascination with ...

Hear tracks by FKA twigs and the Weeknd, Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, Animal Collective and others. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello Every Friday, pop critics for The New York ...

McLorin Salvant first studied classical voice, but turned to jazz because it offered her more range. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she told Terry Gross in this 2015 interview.