This is one of the great female voices in jazz today. Madeleine Peyroux was born in 1974 in Athens (USA) within a left-wing intellectual family. At home she listened to jazz from New Orleans, city of origin of her father, a professor of theater at the University of Georgia.
Madeleine began singing at the age of fifteen with street musicians in the Latin Quarter of Paris, playing guitar and ukulele. At 18 she moved to New York to perform in clubs and in 1996 released her first album, Dreamland, with versions of jazz classics and three of her own songs. Her second album was not published until eight years later, with the title Got you on my mind (2004).
In The Blue Room, her seventh and latest album, she wanted to pay tribute to Modern rounds in country and western music, the album of Ray Charles from 1962 that mixes the traditional white music repertoire of the U.S. with a black style of jazz and soul. It also includes other songs of some of her favorite musicians such as Randy Newman and Leonard Cohen.
Madeleine Peyroux's concert program is part of Estiva Arts By The Sea, a multicultural festival held for the first time this year in Port Adriano, a marina designed by Philippe Starck. After the concerts, which take place in a tent designed for the occasion, attendees can enjoy a summer garden behind the main stage, as a backstage, and cheer with the artists.
