Fleurine Verloop, known professionally as Fleurine, is a Dutch jazz vocalist."Fleurine"
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Biography

Fleurine studied at the Amsterdam School of High Arts Conservatory and then moved to New York. Beginning in the 1990s she has lived and worked in the Netherlands and the United States. She performed at the

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with her band Fleurine plus Five in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000,2004 and 2019. In 1996 she was invited as a guest vocalist with the

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Quintet at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. During a worldwide festival tour promoting her debut album in 1997, she met pianist

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, who was promoting his first album as a leader. Their bands were booked at the same festivals that summer: Festival International de Montreal (Fleurine played at the Spectrum sharing a double bill with

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) and

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in Italy (with T.S Monk band's and as a guest Brad Mehldau). This led to New York concerts for the pair and concerts around the world in Los Angeles, Brazil, London, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Berlin. They married and had three children. Her first album was ''Meant to Be!'' for

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in 1995. This album was produced by

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in New York City. Fleurine wrote lyrics to 12 of the 13 songs of with compositions by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, Tom Harrell, Joshua Redman, and Jose Lopretti. She was accompanied by

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on piano,

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on double bass, and

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on drums with guests

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on trumpet, Bobby Porcelli on alto saxophone,

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on tenor saxophone, and

Jesse van Ruller Jesse van Ruller (born 21 January 1972) is a Dutch jazz guitarist and composer. He won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition in 1995 and has recorded several albums as a leader and more as a sideman. Early life Van Ruller wa ...

on guitar. Her second album for EmArcy, '' Close Enough for Love'', was recorded in June 1999 with Brad Mehldau. Fleurine wrote Portuguese lyrics for Mehldau's music and English lyrics for Pat Metheny's song "Better Days Ahead". Mehldau wrote string arrangements for some of the songs.Mahogany, Bill (May 11, 2000
"Close Enough for Love by Fleurine & Brad Mehldau"
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'' was released in 2003. With pop songs arranged by Fleurine, she was accompanied by Mehldau, Jeff Ballard,

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, Jesse van Ruller, and Peter Bernstein. The album was produced by Robert Sadin. Sunnyside released her album ''

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'' in 2008. The album concentrated on Brazilian music, with songs by

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, Francis Hime, and

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. On ''Brazilian Dream'' she recorded with a Brazilian band that included Vitor Goncalves, Ian Faquini, Chico Pinheiro, Eduardo Belo, and Rogerio Boccato with guests Mehldau and Chris Potter. Fleurine played guitar on some songs, composed most of the music, and wrote lyrics in English and Portuguese.

Awards and honors

Fleurine's album ''Brazilian Dream'', for which she composed the majority of the material and wrote all the lyrics, was nominated for an Edison Award. In October 2019 she received an "Overdue Ovation" from ''Jazztimes'' magazine.

Discography

* ''Meant to Be!'' (

, 1995) * '' Close Enough for Love'' (EmArcy, 2000) * ''

'' (Coast to Coast, 2002) * ''

'' ( Sunnyside, 2008) * ''Brazilian Dream'' (Sunnyside, 2019)

References

External links

Official website
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