Brigitte Zarie

Brigitte Zarie

Zarie in 2012
Background information
Born Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • composer
Instruments Vocals
Labels NJMusic
Website brigittezarie.com

Brigitte Zarie is a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter and composer.

Early years

Brigitte Zarie was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of 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

Zarie 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, producer and member of David Letterman's Saturday Night Live Band. 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 #1 on the French Amazon Jazz and French iTunes Jazz charts.[6]

Personal life

In 1998, she married Neil Jason.[7]

Discography

Solo

Year of release Album title
2009 Make Room for Me
2013 L'amour

References

  1. ↑ Bio, Official website, retrieved 2 October 2015
  2. ↑ Sostre, Wilbert (2010). "Jazz Reviews: Brigitte Zarie: The Next Jazz Sensation from Canada". Jazztimes. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Brigitte Zarie: "Make Room For Me", The Canadian Jazz Review, 20 April 2012, retrieved 2 October 2015
  4. ↑ "Brigitte Zarie", Jazz Inside, retrieved 2 October 2015
  5. ↑ Zoukis, Christopher (17 January 2014), "Brigitte Zarie - 'L'amour'", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2 October 2015
  6. ↑ Brigitte Zarie, retrieved 7 October 2015
  7. ↑ Brigitte Zarie - Sound Portrait, retrieved 7 October 2015

External links

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