Brigitte Zarie is a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter and composer.
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| Background information | |
| Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Jazz |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
| Labels | NJMusic |
| Website | brigittezarie |
Early years
editBrigitte Zarie was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of Moroccan Jewish parents originally from Casablanca, Morocco. Her mother was a singer and her father a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and a multi-instrumentalist. She grew up listening to Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra, and learned to play and sing with her ten siblings. She heard Bebop music for the first time when the family traveled to Buffalo, New York, U.S. and soon found her calling in music.[1] She briefly attended The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, but dropped out. Around 1995, she loaded her belongings into a U-Haul and moved to New York City, New York.[2]
Music career
editZarie sings in English, French and Portuguese.[3] In 2009, she released her first solo album, Make Room for Me, arranged and co-written by Neil Jason. Jazz Inside magazine called her "The next jazz sensation from Canada."[4] Reviewing her second album L'amour in 2014, critic Christopher Zoukis of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer compared her to Nina Simone.[5] The album debuted at No. 1 on the French Amazon Jazz and French iTunes Jazz charts.[6]
Personal life
editIn 1998, she married the renowned session bass player Neil Jason.[7]
Discography
edit- Make Room for Me (NJ Music, 2011)
- L'amour (NJ Music, 2013)
- Marie (2021)
- La Boheme
References
edit- ^ Bio, Official website, retrieved 2 October 2015
- ^ Sostre, Wilbert (2010). "Jazz Reviews: Brigitte Zarie: The Next Jazz Sensation from Canada". Jazztimes. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ Brigitte Zarie: "Make Room For Me", The Canadian Jazz Review, 20 April 2012, retrieved 2 October 2015
- ^ "Brigitte Zarie", Jazz Inside, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 2 October 2015
- ^ Zoukis, Christopher (17 January 2014), "Brigitte Zarie - 'L'amour'", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2 October 2015
- ^ Brigitte Zarie, retrieved 7 October 2015
- ^ Brigitte Zarie - Sound Portrait, 9 April 2015, retrieved 7 October 2015
External links
edit- Official website
- Brigitte Zarie discography at Discogs
- Brigitte Zarie at AllMusic