Tom Jobim, Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, Ella Fitzgerald, Gilberto Gil, Joao Gilberto, Gal Costa, Sarah Vaughan, Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Luiz Gonzaga, Nancy Wilson, Maria Rita, Joao Donato, Joao Bosco, the list will keep growing....
Singer Jessica Sarles brings a wealth of music industry experience to her performing, leading a dual life not only as a singer of Jazz and Brazilian music, but also as someone committed to also bringing these art forms to as many people as possible as a behind-the-scenes concert coordinator within the New York music scene.
Jessica began singing and studying percussion while in elementary school and while in High School was awarded the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, the National School Choral Award and was twice named as an outstanding soloist with her All-County Jazz Ensemble. While enrolled in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, she was the coordinator of the Purchase Jazz Club from 2002-2003, bringing in many sought-after musicians in the New York jazz scene such as John Abercrombie, Ben Monder, and Kate McGarry, and winning the Student Government's award for Best Club that year. Along the way, she discovered the music of Brazil, and has has since devoted the majority of her performance efforts to the music of that country.
Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase in May of 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in Music with a concentration in Jazz Studies and a minor in French Language and Culture, and she has gone on to perform in such well-known New York City venues such as the Copacabana, Kavehaz, and Cleopatra's Needle.
Among Jessica's musical influences are not only classic singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Elis Regina and Nancy Wilson, but contemporary singers like Cassandra Wilson, Maria Rita, Luciana Souza and Claudia Acuna.
Hellooo there! I'm so happy to hear your lovely voice and your page looks beautiful as well, my dear! I hope you are well and enjoying the summer time thoroughly! I miss you! What are you doing for Labor Day weekend? (Rt. before your b-day!!!)
I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
You are so technologically savvy. Your page is gorgeous!! I'm such a dork for not moving it into my top friends right away so that everyone that visits me can visit you. The error has been fixed. You are amazing my brazilian soul friend!!!
Hahaha!!!
Ta chegando então me de um cheiro....rs
Muito bonita suas musicas. Tua voz é bonita, e a banda toca maravilhosamente bem.
Muito divertido e bonito também ver o teu sotaque cantando em português...ehehe
Adoro essa Insensatez do Tom e Vinicius. Tu escolheste bem as musicas pra interpretar.
Parabéns para vc e tua banda. SUCESSO!!!
