Jane Monheit
| Jane Monheit | |
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Jane Monheit in Koerner Hall, Toronto, Ontario
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| Background information | |
| Born |
November 3, 1977 Oakdale, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Vocal jazz, pop standards, Brazilian |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | N-Coded, EmArcy |
| Website | www |
Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977) is an American jazz and pop vocalist. She has collaborated with John Pizzarelli, Michael Bublé, Ivan Lins, Terence Blanchard and Tom Harrell, and has received Grammy nominations for two of her recordings.
Monheit was raised in Oakdale, New York, on Long Island, by parents who were musicians. Her father played banjo and guitar. Her mother sang and played music for her by singers who could also be her teachers, beginning with Ella Fitzgerald. At an early age she was drawn to jazz and Broadway musicals.
She began singing professionally while attending Connetquot High School in Bohemia, New York, from where she graduated in 1995. As a child, Monheit spent her summers as a student at the Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts, and is a recipient of their distinguished alumna award. At the Manhattan School of Music she studied voice under Peter Eldridge. She graduated with honors from the Manhattan School of Music in 1999, earning a BA in music and receiving the William H. Borden Award for outstanding accomplishment in jazz. She was runner-up to Teri Thornton in the 1998 vocal competition at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
When she was 22, she released her first album, Never Never Land (N-Coded, 2000). Like Ella Fitzgerald, she recorded many songs from the Great American Songbook. After recording for five labels, she started her own, Emerald City Records. Its first release was The Songbook Sessions (2016), an homage to Fitzgerald.
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