JANE MONHEIT ~ CHEEK TO CHEEK / MY FOOLISH HEART / TWISTED / PLEASE BE KIND

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Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977) is an American jazz and pop vocalist. Monheit was born and raised in Oakdale, New York, on Long Island.Her father played banjo and guitar. Her mother sang and played music for her by singers who could also be her teachers, beginning with Ella Fitzgerald. At an early age Monheit was drawn to jazz and Broadway musicals.

She began singing professionally while attending Connetquot High School in Bohemia, New York. She attended the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts. At the Manhattan School of Music she studied voice under Peter Eldridge; she graduated in 1999.

She was runner-up to Teri Thornton in the 1998 vocal competition at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, in Washington, DC.

Never Never Land is the debut album by jazz singer Jane Monheit, recorded when she was 22-years-old. At AllMusic, critic David Adler wrote that her voice on this album was "as close to flawless as a human can get". She was accompanied by jazz musicians Bucky Pizzarelli, Ron Carter, Hank Crawford, and Kenny Barron. The album includes cover versions of the standards "More Than You Know", "My Foolish Heart", and "Twisted". - Wikipedia

Album- Never Never Land on N-Coded Music @2000 and In The Sun on N-Coded Music @2002. Genre- Jazz.