Laura Ann Singh
Laura Ann Singh is a multilingual American singer, recording artist and composer, often associated with musica popular brasileira and Latin boleros. She has performed internationally in Europe, Russia, and South America as well as the Tiny Desk concert series on NPR and headlining the annual Globalfest festival in New York City. She has recorded music for Daptone Records, Barbes Records, and Electric Cowbell. Her repertoire pulls from all over Latin America, especially Brazil, but includes American Songbook standards, women composers, and original music.
Laura Ann is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Miramar, which began as a bolero band with Singh, Reinaldo Alvarez and Marlysse Simmons. Miramar revives Latin American romantic music from the 1950s and 60s, explores the bolero's worldwide influence and performs original material. Their notable appearances include the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Elabash Concert Hall in New York City, Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. In 2019, the band performed in Paris and Lyon, France, for the Les Nuit de la Fourviere Festival.
Miramar has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series and in 2018 recorded a 45 featuring two original songs for Daptone Records in New York. In the spring of 2020 they toured Russia, playing concerts with local Russian string quartets from Moscow to Siberia. In October of 2020, amid the global pandemic, Miramar opened the Richmond Symphony’s Pops series with a masked and distanced in-person concert. They released a single of Sylvia Rexach’s Olas y Arenas on Barbes Record in February of 2022 in honor of the centennial of Rexach’s birth. They are currently recording their second album of mostly original music to be released in late 2023.
Laura Ann also performs with Quatro na Bossa, a Brazilian music project she launched with guitarist and arranger Kevin Harding in 2002. Her passion for Brazilian music eventually led her to São Paulo where she studied privately with acclaimed Brazilian vocalist Fabiana Cozza. Quatro na Bossa has performed all over the East Coast, including repeat residencies at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at the Lincoln Center. In 2008 the band released an album, Summer Samba, on the Japanese Jazz label, Venus Records. Their self-released album, Bossa Nossa, debuted in 2012.
Laura Ann loves the collaborative nature of her chosen field and is constantly grateful for the flow of communication between her and her audience. Laura Ann plays fancy concert halls in big cities and small shows in intimate venues.
She is at home anywhere in the world.
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