Roseanna Vitro
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Roseanna Elizabeth Vitro |
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February 28, 1951 Hot Springs, Arkansas |
| Genres | Jazz, vocal jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Motéma, Half Note, A Records, Telarc, Concord, SeaBreeze, Chase Music |
| Website | www |
Roseanna Vitro is a jazz singer and teacher.
Born Roseanna Elizabeth Vitro in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on February 28, 1951, Vitro began singing at an early age, drawing inspiration from gospel, rock, rhythm and blues, musical theatre, and classical music. During the 1950s, her father owned a night club in Hot Springs called The Flamingo. He loved Dean Martin's music and opera, and her mother's family sang gospel. By the 1960s, she was determined to be a rock singer.
Vitro was exposed to jazz and it became her genre of choice after moving to Houston, Texas in the 1970s. Ray Sullenger discovered Vitro and presented her to the Houston jazz community where sang frequently with tenor Arnett Cobb. Vitro worked for two years in Houston's Green Room with her group "Roseanna with Strings and Things" hosting a radio show on KUHF-FM. Many jazz musicians stopped in and played with Strings and Things, such as Cobb, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Tommy Flanagan and Keter Betts. Cobb, Peterson, and Sullenger encouraged her to dedicate herself to jazz.
In 1978 she moved to New York City with guitarist Scott Hardy and began to study with Gabor Carelli, a professor from the Manhattan School of Music, and started performing with Kenny Werner and Fred Hersch. She sang with Lionel Hampton and later toured with him. She appeared at The Blue Note, Iridium, Birdland, and Dizzy's Jazz Club at Lincoln Center. She appeared with Steve Allen at The Town Hall and recorded an album of Allen's songs. In 2005 she performed with Kenny Werner at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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