Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves is one of the leading voices of contemporary jazz, a singer with a sumptuous timbre and supreme technique who has shaped a style that blends improvisation, elegance and R&B influences. A five‑time Grammy Award winner, she remains the only artist to have won the Best Jazz Vocal Performance award three years in a row — a testament to rare mastery and sustained creativity. A sought‑after musician, she has performed with Wynton Marsalis, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle, asserting a unique presence at the intersection of jazz and orchestral music. As the first artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s jazz department and the first singer programmed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, she has also developed her studio career alongside legendary figures such as Arif Mardin on A Little Moonlight and Terri Lyne Carrington on the multi‑award‑winning Beautiful Life. Her voice also resonates in film, notably on the soundtrack of Good Night, and Good Luck, which won a Grammy. Very active on stage, she tours extensively and undertakes collaborative projects, including Sing the Truth in tribute to Nina Simone. In 2022 she lent her voice to the soundtrack of the film The Woman King. Honored as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, Dianne Reeves remains an essential figure in vocal jazz, combining virtuosity, emotional depth and an influence that continues to extend far beyond the genre.