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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, and with Miramar has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk and headlined globalFEST in New York City. She has recorded with Daptone Records, Barbès Records, and Electric Cowbell as well as dozens of independent recordings. 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, Elabash Concert Hall, and globalFEST in New York City. In 2019, the band performed in Paris and Lyon, France, for the Les Nuit de la Fourviere Festival. 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 reprised their appearance as featured artists with the RSO in October 2024 with a full orchestra.
Miramar has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series and All Songs Considered. They are recipients of the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International Grant, and have released recordings on two of Brooklyn’s most famed indie-labels, Barbès and Daptone Records. They released a single of Sylvia Rexach’s Olas y Arenas on Barbès Record in February of 2022 in honor of the centennial of Rexach’s birth. In September of 2024, Miramar released Un Astro, the first single from their new album, which will be released on the Los Angeles based Ansonia Records in January of 2025.
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.
In 2023, she was the featured vocalist on the Doug Richards Orchestra’s Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. She has performed with DRO, most recently as a guest artist at VCU’s Singleton Center in Richmond, VA.
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 Brazilian guitarists Romero Lubambo and Oscar Castro-Neves, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummers/percussionists Jorge Alabê, Rogerio Boccato and Adriano Santos. In 2005 she performed in São Paulo with the Zimbo Trio. 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 subsequent albums of his original music, Heaven Is Begun and Air Ride Equipped.
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.
“Laura Ann Singh… has a hauntingly angelic voice, that is at once assertive and fragile” Nick Ostrum, freejazzblog.org
Praise for Doug Richards Orchestra Through a Sonic Prism :
"Singh is rich and expressive" - George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
"Singh has a really exceptional voice" - Seton Hawkins, Jazz at Lincoln Center
"..her beautiful voice is an instrument just like the guitar or saxophone" - Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
Recent and ongoing
Laura Ann keeps a robust on-going performance schedule. Check Facebook or Instagram for updates.