Brigitte Zarie

Brigitte Zarie is a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter and composer.

Brigitte Zarie
Zarie in 2012
Background information
BornToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • composer
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsNJMusic
Websitebrigittezarie.com

Early years

Brigitte Zarie was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of Moroccan Jewish parents originally from Casablanca, Morocco. Her mother was a singer and her father a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and a multi-instrumentalist. She grew up listening to Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra, and learned to play and sing with her ten siblings. She heard Bebop music for the first time when the family traveled to Buffalo, New York, U.S. and soon found her calling in music.[1] She briefly attended The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, but dropped out. Around 1995, she loaded her belongings into a U-Haul and moved to New York City, New York.[2]

Music career

Zarie sings in English, French and Portuguese.[3] In 2009, she released her first solo album, Make Room for Me, arranged and co-written by Neil Jason. Jazz Inside magazine called her "The next jazz sensation from Canada."[4] Reviewing her second album L'amour in 2014, critic Christopher Zoukis of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer compared her to Nina Simone.[5] The album debuted at No. 1 on the French Amazon Jazz and French iTunes Jazz charts.[6]

Personal life

In 1998, she married Neil Jason.[7]

Discography

Solo
Year of releaseAlbum title
2009Make Room for Me
2013L'amour

References
  1. Bio, Official website, retrieved 2 October 2015
  2. Sostre, Wilbert (2010). "Jazz Reviews: Brigitte Zarie: The Next Jazz Sensation from Canada". Jazztimes. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. Brigitte Zarie: "Make Room For Me", The Canadian Jazz Review, 20 April 2012, retrieved 2 October 2015
  4. "Brigitte Zarie", Jazz Inside, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 2 October 2015
  5. Zoukis, Christopher (17 January 2014), "Brigitte Zarie - 'L'amour'", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2 October 2015
  6. Brigitte Zarie, retrieved 7 October 2015
  7. Brigitte Zarie - Sound Portrait, retrieved 7 October 2015
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