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Laura Ann Singh is a multilingual American singer, recording artist and composer, often associated with musica popular brasileira and Latin boleros. She has performed internationally in Europe, Russia, and South America as well as the Tiny Desk concert series on NPR and headlining the annual Globalfest festival in New York City. She has recorded music for Daptone Records, Barbes Records, and Electric Cowbell. Her repertoire pulls from all over Latin America, especially Brazil, but includes American Songbook standards, women composers, and original music.

Laura Ann is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Miramar, which began as a bolero band with Singh, Reinaldo Alvarez and Marlysse Simmons. Miramar revives Latin American romantic music from the 1950s and 60s, explores the bolero's worldwide influence and performs original material. Their notable appearances include the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Elabash Concert Hall in New York City, Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. In 2019, the band performed in Paris and Lyon, France, for the Les Nuit de la Fourviere Festival.

Miramar has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series and in 2018 recorded a 45 featuring two original songs for Daptone Records in New York. In the spring of 2020 they toured Russia, playing concerts with local Russian string quartets from Moscow to Siberia. In October of 2020, amid the global pandemic, Miramar opened the Richmond Symphony’s Pops series with a masked and distanced in-person concert. They released a single of Sylvia Rexach’s Olas y Arenas on Barbes Record in February of 2022 in honor of the centennial of Rexach’s birth. They are currently recording their second album of mostly original music to be released in late 2023. 

Laura Ann also performs with Quatro na Bossa, a Brazilian music project she launched with guitarist and arranger Kevin Harding in 2002. Her passion for Brazilian music eventually led her to São Paulo where she studied privately with acclaimed Brazilian vocalist Fabiana Cozza. Quatro na Bossa has performed all over the East Coast, including repeat residencies at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at the Lincoln Center. In 2008 the band released an album, Summer Samba, on the Japanese Jazz label, Venus Records. Their self-released album, Bossa Nossa, debuted in 2012.

Laura Ann loves the collaborative nature of her chosen field and is constantly grateful for the flow of communication between her and her audience. Laura Ann plays fancy concert halls in big cities and small shows in intimate venues.

She is at home anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

Collaborations

Laura Ann has performed with bossa nova and jazz guitarists Romero Lubambo, Oscar Castro-Neves, and Gene Bertoncini, bassist Nilson Matta, and percussionists Jorge Alabê, Rogerio Boccato and Adriano Santos. She has performed in São Paulo with the Zimbo Trio. In 2018 Laura Ann acted as a Portuguese language and pronunciation consultant for the Villa-Lobos music festival at Virginia Commonwealth University. In August of 2019, she opened the MUSIK festival in Sao João del Rei, Minas Gerais, joining local musicians to perform a concert of Brazilian popular and folkloric music.

Laura Ann co-wrote and recorded Seja Como For, the B-side of Os Magrelos 45 (Electric Cowbell), with long-time collaborator and bandmate Marlysse Simmons. They are recording a new project of original MPB-inspired songs.

Laura Ann recorded a song for pianist and composer Wells Hanley’s podcast, I Wrote This Song for You.

Laura Ann worked with pianist and composer Curt Sydnor on Revolutionary Etudes and a second album of his original music, Heaven Is Begun.

Laura Ann has recorded in collaboration with drummer Scott Clark exploring the work of Dorival Caymmi, and was featured on Clark’s critically acclaimed sextet album, Dawn and Dusk, released in September 2023 on Out of Your Head Records.

In September 2023, arranger and band leader Doug Richards released a large-ensemble album of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s music featuring Laura Ann. Through a Sonic Prism is now available on all platforms.

Recent and ongoing

Laura Ann keeps a robust on-going performance schedule. Check Facebook or Instagram for updates.