Kavita Shah Official

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Topics jazz, music, composition, ethnographic, vocalist

Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, researcher, and educator who makes work in deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates her ethnographic research on Brazilian, West African, and Indian traditions into her original music. Her latest release, "Cape Verdean Blues" (2023), is a tribute to the legendary singer Cesária Évora and her archipelago’s welcoming people. Previous projects include “Visions” (2014), co-produced by Lionel Loueke, “Folk Songs of Naboréa” (2017), whose premiere at the Park Avenue Armory was named a Top 10 Jazz Concert of the Year by NPR/WBGO’s Nate Chinen, and “Interplay” (2018) in duo with François Moutin, which was nominated for France’s Victoires de la Musique for Jazz Album of the Year. She holds degrees from Harvard College and Manhattan School of Music

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