The artist who was raised in Miami and has crossed genres and influences, will be performing in the Guirau Hall at the Teatro Fernán Gómez. Cultural Centre on 24 November as part of the official concerts at JAZZMADRID, Madrid's International Jazz Festival. In this concert, she will be accompanied by Sullivan Fortner on the piano.
Her personality and jazz vocation have led her to engage with some of the best representatives of this genre, such as Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday. Salvant began her classical piano studies at the age of five and started singing in the Miami Choral Society three years later. She later developed her interest in classical voice and studied under Edward Walker, vocal teacher at the University of Miami. She moved to Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2007 to study classical and baroque singing at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory. It was there that she sang with her first band, alongside her teacher, Jean-François Bonnel.
She won first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010. Her third album, For One To Love, was released on 5 September 2015 to critical acclaim from the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, for which she won a Grammy Award for the Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2016.
In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. She released her debut album, Ghost Song, on Nonesuch Records in 2022, which earned her two Grammy nominations. In 2023, she released Mélusine, an album mostly sung in French, along with Occitan, English and Haitian Creole, which was also nominated for two Grammys.
The singer and songwriter has sold more than 45 million albums worldwide and has won many awards, including 17 Billboard Awards, 3 American Music Awards and 15 Grammys including the Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, The Window, Dreams and Daggers and For One To Love.
