Sunset Wednesdays: Jennifer Jade Ledesna

About

Grammy-nominated stage mage, Bronxite, and multilinguist, Jennifer Jade Ledesna is lauded for her jazz vocals, acting prowess, and composition skills. Performing across the country and internationally, Ledesna is often seen at Aux Trois Mailletz in Paris and Jazz Na Avenida in Brazil. Ledesna's sweet, seductive singing extends the genre in exciting directions with her "fierce artistry and smoking voice" \(The New York Times\) and vaudevillian performance style. A Montreux Jazz Voice Competition Finalist and Betty Carter Jazz Ahead composer, she was also the former & first Afro-Latina Artistic Director of the legendary Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, NYC. Ledesna has sung at Carnegie Hall in Bobby McFerrin's INSTANT OPERA! and in the World Premiere Tour of CHAPEL/CHAPTER with the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company.