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Thana Alexa

Thana Alexa is a vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, and festival director whose projects combine jazz with electronic and global textures.

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Career Overview

About Thana Alexa

Alexa’s official biography identifies a vocalist, composer, producer, and festival director whose work uses voice as melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and textural material. It documents projects shaped by jazz, alternative world music, electronics, social themes, and cross-disciplinary performance.[1]

The official discography separates the debut Ode to Heroes, the leader album ONA, and SONICA, a collaborative vocal project with Nicole Zuraitis and Julia Adamy. Personnel and production credits make Alexa’s leadership and co-leadership explicit.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer

Thana Alexa leader group

ONA centers Alexa’s original compositions and arrangements in a full-band setting with invited voices and instrumentalists.[1][2]

Co-leader, vocalist, keyboardist, and producer

SONICA

The vocal project with Nicole Zuraitis and Julia Adamy is documented separately from Alexa’s solo leader records.[2]

Co-founder and artistic director

Ponta Lopud Jazz Festival

Alexa’s official biography documents her festival leadership and work supporting musicians and cross-cultural exchange.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2015 · Harmonia Mundi / Jazz Village

Ode to Heroes

Leader, vocalist, composer, and arranger

The official discography identifies Alexa’s debut leader album and complete small-group personnel.[2]

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2020

ONA

Leader, vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer

ONA documents Alexa’s family-inspired and women-centered original program with band and special guests.[1][2]

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2022 · Outside In Music

SONICA

Co-leader, vocalist, keyboardist, and producer

The recording places Alexa in a collaborative vocal and rhythm project with its own personnel and production credits.[2]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

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Official discography

Explore Alexa’s leader albums, SONICA, personnel, production roles, and canonical links.

Official media archive

Watch Alexa’s leader, vocal, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary performance videos.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Sep 26, 7:00 PM

Thana Alexa

The Jazz Gallery · New York

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Sat, Sep 26, 9:00 PM

Thana Alexa

The Jazz Gallery · New York

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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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 biography, projects, and festival leadership

    Thana Alexa

  2. [2] Official albums, personnel, and production credits

    Thana Alexa