Cyrille Aimée (pron: SUR-real M-A)[1] is a French jazz singer based in Brooklyn[1] known for rhythmic songs with roots in jazz and gypsy styles.[2][3] She won the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2007,[4] was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010,[2][5] and won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition in 2012.[4] She grew up in the French town of Samois-sur-Seine,[4] in Fontainebleau, France.[6] Her father was French and her mother was from the Dominican Republic.[6] New York Times music reviewer Stephen Holden described Aimée as a blend of Michael Jackson and Sarah Vaughan and wrote that the “saucy, curly-haired jazz singer with one foot in tradition and the other in electronics,” and wrote that her voice had a “tart, girlish chirp” and that her Surreal Band fused traditional and futuristic electronics with textures mixing jazz and funk.[6] New York Times reviewer Nate Chinen wrote that she had a “sweet, girlish voice that she controls with a sniper’s precision”.[7] Star-Ledger reviewer Ronni Reich described her sound as “instantly recognizable” with a “soft, girlish buzz with a touch of an Edith Piaf-like quaver.”[4] Reviewer John Fordham in The Guardian wrote that she is a “subtle and articulate vocalist” who is “light-stepping, casually fluent and persuasive” and sometimes “coolly understated in a soft glide.”[8]

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