Tatiana Eva-Marie is a Swiss singer. She was born in Switzerland into a family of artists. Her father is Swiss-French and her mother is Romanian. She is known for founding the Avalon Jazz Band, singing jazz and French pop derived from the

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani people, Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Belgium, Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist and composer in France. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe ...

tradition. Her singing has been compared to jazz vocalists

Cyrille Aimée Cyrille Aimée Daudel (; born 10 August 1984) is a French jazz singer. Biography She grew up in the French town of Samois-sur-Seine, in Fontainebleau, France. Her father is French and her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She won the '' ...

and

Cécile McLorin Salvant Cécile McLorin Salvant (born August 28, 1989)Fred Kaplan (journalist), Kaplan, Fred"Cécile McLorin Salvant's Timeless Jazz" ''The New Yorker'', May 22, 2017. is a French-American jazz vocalist. Salvant is one of the most highly regarded jazz voc ...

. Her band opened for vocalist and pianist

Norah Jones Norah Jones ( ; born Geethali Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has won several awards for her music and, , has sold more than 53 million records worldwide. '' Billboard'' named her the top jazz artist of ...

Biography

She is the daughter of composer

Louis Crelier Louis Jacques Crelier (3 November 1873, Bure, Switzerland – 28 November 1935) was a Swiss mathematician. In 1886 he enrolled at l'Ecole normale in Porrentruy and then studied at the University of Berne, where he received his doctorate in 1895. ...

and violinist Anca Maria, and she grew up in France and Switzerland. She later moved to New York and founded the Avalon Jazz Band. In 2024, she wrote the libretto for an opera, "Eden Park", music by Swiss composer Gérard Massini. The libretto is inspired by the true story of

George Remus George Remus (November 13, 1876 – January 20, 1952) was a German-born American lawyer who was a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition, and later murdered his wife Imogene. Early life Remus was born in Landsberg, Germany, on Nove ...

. For her album "Djangology", she wrote lyrics to the music of

and reimagined his compositions in her own way. Her album was released on June 7th 2024 by GroundUp Music.

Discography

* ''Je suis Swing'' (2016) * ''Paris'' (2019) * ''Wintertime Dreams'' (Burton Avenue, 2019) * ''Bonjour Tristesse'' with Michael Valeanu (2020) * ''April in Paris'' (Burton Avenue, 2021) * ''We'll Meet Again'' (2021) * ''I Double Dare You'' with

Terry Waldo Terry Waldo (born November 26, 1944) is an American pianist, composer, and historian of early jazz, blues, and stride music, and is best known for his contribution to ragtime and his role in reviving interest in this form, starting in the 1970 ...

(Turtle Bay, 2021) * ''The Sound of Love: Tribute to Michel Legrand'' with

Giovanni Mirabassi Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born 4 May 1970 in Perugia, Italy. Self-taught, he learned by listening to Bud Powell, Art Tatum, and Oscar Peterson. He is strongly influenced by Enrico Pieranunzi. At seventeen, after a f ...

(Venus Jazz Japan, 2022) * ''Two at the Most'' with Jeremy Corren (Turtle Bay, 2023) * ''Djangology'' ( GroundUP Music, 2024)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tatiana Eva-Marie Swiss emigrants to the United States Swiss jazz singers Swiss women jazz singers Living people Singers from Brooklyn Year of birth missing (living people) Swiss people of French descent Swiss people of Romanian descent