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Cécile McLorin Salvant

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a vocalist, composer, and visual artist whose recordings combine original songs, standards, theatrical writing, and multilingual repertoire.

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Career Overview

About Cécile McLorin Salvant

Nonesuch presents Salvant as a singer and composer whose albums draw together original songs, standards, folk material, and theatrical narrative. Her official site adds visual work and artist-authorized video to that recording practice rather than treating performance as her only medium.[2][1]

The Nonesuch sequence Ghost Song and Mélusine expands the chamber and multilingual sides of Salvant’s work after earlier Mack Avenue recordings with pianist Aaron Diehl and a duo album with Sullivan Fortner. The label also documents Ogresse as an extended song cycle developed for the stage.[2][3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, vocalist, and arranger

Aaron Diehl trio recordings

Salvant’s Mack Avenue period joined her voice and repertoire choices with pianist Aaron Diehl’s trio across studio and live recording settings.[2]

Co-leader and vocalist with Sullivan Fortner

The Window

The duo project reduces the instrumentation to voice and keyboard, giving Salvant and Fortner room to reshape standards, originals, and theater songs.[2]

Composer, librettist, and vocalist

Ogresse

Nonesuch’s artist biography identifies Ogresse as Salvant’s extended song cycle, connecting her composition and visual imagination with an orchestral stage work.[2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2017 · Mack Avenue Records

Dreams and Daggers

Leader and vocalist

The expansive live-and-studio program documents Salvant with Aaron Diehl’s trio, guests, original songs, and repertoire drawn from several eras.[2]

Release details

2022 · Nonesuch Records

Ghost Song

Leader, vocalist, and composer

Salvant’s Nonesuch debut combines original writing with transformed folk, pop, and theater material in changing chamber-scale arrangements.[3][2]

Release details

2023 · Nonesuch Records

Mélusine

Leader, vocalist, and composer

The album uses French, Haitian Kreyòl, Occitan, and English repertoire to develop a narrative around the Mélusine legend.[4][2]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official YouTube channel

Watch Salvant’s performances, visual projects, and release videos through her official channel.

Nonesuch artist catalog

Open label-authorized release pages and listening destinations for Salvant’s Nonesuch recordings.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official visual art, music, and video archive

    Cécile McLorin Salvant

  2. [2] Label biography and recording catalog

    Nonesuch Records

  3. [3] Ghost Song release page

    Nonesuch Records

  4. [4] Mélusine release page

    Nonesuch Records