Keeping an eye on our current spotlight artist, here’s a post with more info about Latin Jazz vocalist Mari Rosa. You can find some background info below taken from Rosa’s website. You’ll notice some pretty extensive and diverse vocal training, which would explain her impeccable sense of pitch and tasteful phrasing. Her college years also explain her ability to move between languages smoothly and authentically. All the pieces fit together for this outstanding artist.

For more on her music, check out: Mari Rosa’s website, CDBaby page, and MySpace. Enjoy!
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A native of Boston, MA, Mari Rosa is not a typical jazz singer. The daughter of an Italian-Argentine father, and an American mother, Mari’s multi-lingual upbringing complemented her interest in storytelling and lyrical nuance.

Mari is a graduate of the Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in America, where she won numerous writing and public speaking awards. Granted a public service fellowship at the tender age of 17, Mari began working at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Says Mari, “Many people assumed I would become a lawyer, and working for the Attorney General’s was fantastic. What it inspired most in me however, was the inner strength and confidence to do what I loved, and that was always music.”

After an adolescence of studying bel canto voice with Charles Sorrento of Berklee College of Music, Mari pursued her undergraduate studies at the renowned Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She studied composition with Glenn Alexander, jazz voice with Thomas Yong of the celebrated Three Mo’ Tenors, and classical voice with Wayne Sanders, the co-founder and musical director of Opera Ebony, the longest continually running Black Opera company in the world. Never taking the easy way out, Mari combined her music performance and composition studies with a second concentration in Romance Languages, graduating college trilingual. During a single show, it’s not unusual to hear Mari maneuver seamlessly between singing in all three languages. It’s just Mari being herself, and it’s about as finesse as it gets.

No stranger to the rigors of the road, Mari Rosa has performed live at Arturo Sandoval’s Jazz Club, the Long Island Music Festival, Makor, Vassar College, Cornelia Street Cafe, CBGB’s, Ryles Jazz Club, and more. She has recorded/performed/collaborated with Scott Healy (Max Weinburg Seven), Richie Morales (Spyro Gyra), Cuban legend Cachao, Kermit Driscoll (Bill Frisell), Harvie S, and Don Friedman, among others.

A true believer in blowing the dust off of so called “nostalgia music,” Mari Rosa adulterates her sound with a modern, international edge creating music that will slink past even the most sophisticated social armor. The result will make your cheeks pink in a New York minute.

For more on Mari Rosa at LJC, check out:
Honeyspot Review
Mari Rosa in the News

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