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Cécile McLorin Salvant (born 1989) is an American jazz vocalist. She was the winner of the first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010,〔Anne Midgette, ("Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocalist Competition 2010 at Kennedy Center" ), ''Washington Post'', October 6, 2010.〕 releasing her first album, ''Cecile'', shortly thereafter. Her second album, ''WomanChild'', was released in 2013 on Mack Avenue Records. In 2014 Salvant was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Salvant won four categories in the 2014 ''Down Beat'' Critics Poll: Jazz Album of the Year, Female Vocalist, Rising Star–Jazz Artist and Rising Star–Female Vocalist.〔("Salvant Wins Four Categories in DownBeat Critics Poll" ), ''Down Beat'', June 23, 2014.〕 Her third album, ''For One to Love'', was released on September 5, 2015, to critical acclaim from the ''New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', and ''Los Angeles Times''.〔Nate Chinen, ("Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant Wields Her Power, Drawing From Her Album ‘For One to Love’" ), ''New York Times'', August 26, 2015.〕〔John Lewis, ("Cécile McLorin Salvant: For One to Love review – more like heightened music-theatre than jazz" ), ''The Guardian'', September 3, 2015.〕〔Mikael Wood, ("Review: Cecile McLorin Salvant is still pushing herself with 'For One to Love'" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', September 5, 2015.〕 ==Early years== Salvant was born in Miami, Florida, to a Haitian father doctor and a mixed-race French-Guadeloupean mother, who is the founder and president of a small bilingual French-English school in Miami.〔 Salvant began studies in classical piano at the age of five, and began singing in the Miami Choral Society when she was eight. She subsequently developed an interest in classical voice and began studying with private instructors, and later with Edward Walker, vocal teacher at the University of Miami.〔(English bio ), cecilemclorinsalvant.com 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.〕 In 2007, Salvant moved to Aix-en-Provence, France, to study law as well as classical and baroque voice at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory. It was in Aix-en-Provence, with reedist and teacher , that she studied improvisation, instrumental and vocal repertoire ranging from the 1910s, and sang with her first band.〔〔 In a four-star review of her sold-out engagement at Ronnie Scott's Club in London in June 2015, John Fordham wrote in ''The Guardian'': "She brings ideas from unexpected angles to the familiar art of standards-singing, and she applies a mischievous intelligence to well-worn lyrics in ways that transform them."〔John Fordham, ("Cecile McLorin Salvant review – jazz-informed artistry of the highest class" ), ''The Guardian'', June 4, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cécile McLorin Salvant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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