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Eve Zanni — Vocal Artist, Composer, Lyricist, Educator, Author, Vocal Director

Eve Zanni is an original jazz voice, warm and expressive with a sensual musicality...traversing the primal depths of great jazz standards and original compositions in a blend of her unique arrangements that embrace classic jazz, Brasilian, Afro-Cuban, Celtic and Middle-eastern rhythms....all sung with passion and romantic soul.

Eve Zanni was born in California into a family of musicians, vocalists and activists, spanning several generations...(her father’s Vaudeville legacy includes membership in the famed Harmonicats). Eve grew up in a “madly musical household”. Performing and writing music and lyrics from childhood, Eve has many original songs to her credit, Woman Strong written for PBS documentary “Heather Booth – Changing the World” https://youtu.be/oOdf5Z96v58

Performing Skills: Jazz / World Music Vocal Soloist, harmony vocals, arranging, Celtic music, guitar, penny whistle, percussion. Eve leads her own ensembles; (JAZZMUNDO, THE SWEETHOTS) as well as performing with many jazz greats including: The Cab Calloway Orchestra (led by Cab's grandson, Calloway Brooks) to name a few. Eve also tours, records, in the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe. Eve’s Swing vocal trio "The Sweethots" ; are mentioned in Will Friedwald's book Jazz Singing as the "best of its kind" and The Ella Fitzgerald Biography by Stuart Nicholson. Eve Zanni's contribution as a vocalist and lyricist/composer of Lester Young solos are acclaimed in Dr. Henry Daniels' book, Lester Leaps In and she is listed in Lewis Porter's new Jazz Encyclopedia.

Jazz Educator: Eve sings and reads from her series “Jazz Superheroes” book series featuring Billie Holiday and Lester Young in clubs, schools, libraries for young people and teaches song-writing, composition and improvisation. https://youtu.be/RI5s8Mc6iVw

Vocal Director: A self-described “harmony and improvisation fanatic” Eve Zanni delights in singing and teaching vocal harmony and improvisation. Eve is creator and Vocal Director of Bliss Singing; SINGTIME SESSIONS; an ongoing choral program with jazz piano accompaniment for Westbeth Arts and The City Council of New York.

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Nature Boy; singing my favorite song with Michael Howell on guitar and Paul Beaudry on bass at The 55 Bar in Greenwich Village, an atmospheric 100-year-old speakeasy. I grew up thinking that Nature Boy was a lullaby that my dad composed just for me....he would sing it and play guitar to send me off to sweet slumbers. Then I happened to meet Eden Ahbez in 1979 and I told him "I thought my dad wrote Nature Boy as my lullaby, just for me!" Ahbee told me that he was the composer of Nature Boy....i must have looked so devastated, that he quickly added: "And i wrote it for YOU!" Of course, he composed it years before my birth, but who's counting?

Creating healthy, supported sound was our ancestors’ first survival tool. Everyone needs healthy vocal production and habits. My Bliss Singing Warm Up routine to live jazz piano accompaniment is specially designed to both relax and energize through vocal exercises, breath work, gentle stretch, dance moves and improvisation. Our internal vocal system becomes stronger and more flexible by vocal exercises. My super-fun warm-up routine is like going to the gym for your voice. We need to use it or we lose it. We learn and sing songs that represent the Village’s remarkable history of artistic freedom and social justice, drawing from repertoire such as: Bob Dylan, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, West African & Native American chants, Spirituals, Jazz Standards, World Music, Civil Rights, Folk music, Classical, Broadway, originals and more!

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EVE ZANNI'S JAZZ SUPERHEROES

For jazz and history lovers ages 8 - 108! Available on Amazon.com

Jazz musicians are real American heroes: but their true stories have not been told. Find out how they created an original American art form while battling discrimination, poverty, violence, even defying death, to create an original music of the American people. Jazz is America's greatest gift to World Culture!