Chiara Izzi

About

Vocalist Chiara Izzi“Sister, you are very very talented!”QUINCY JONES“A force of nature”ALL ABOUT JAZZ“A talent to be heard, admired and anticipated”Travis Rogers, JAZZ TIMES“Izzi has a wonderful range of expression, singing assuredly in three languages, sometimes with a girlish tinge that echoes Emiliana Torrini or almost Blossom Dearie.”Wif Stenger, JAZZ JOURNALWinner of the Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition Chiara Izzi (Key-R-uh Eats-ee) is an award-winning jazz singer-songwriter from Italy who has been based in New York City since 2014, three years after Quincy Jones awarded her first prize in the 2011 Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition. In April 2020 she also won one Independent Music Award for Best Jazz song with Vocals with her composition “Circles Of The Mind". Since arriving, she’s become one of New York’s busiest vocalists, having had already the chance to perform in prominent venues like Iridium, Birdland, The Blue Note, The Kennedy Center, Smalls, 55 Bar, sharing bandstands with such luminaries as Kevin Hays, Leon Parker, Ken Peplowski, Diego Figueiredo, Jeff