Grace Testani

A unique, adventurous jazz vocalist with an extraordinary range and a somewhat husky voice, Elegance Testani was created and raised in upstate NY but has spent the majority of her adult existence in Manhattan. Testani, whose affects range between Anita O’Day to Sarah Vaughan, gained a BA in mindset from NY University or college in the 1970s before performing her talk about of golf club gigs in the 1980s and 1990s. Among the noteworthy performers Testani performed with had been saxman Sonny Lot of money; pianists Harold Mabern, Jim McNeely and Phil Markowitz; guitarist Jack port Wilkins; bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Danny Gottlieb. In 1983, she co-led a jazz vocal medical center with Sheila Jordan as well as others and founded Elegance Notes Enterprises, which includes specific in musical teaching, workshops, treatment centers and alternative activities for jazz performers. Testani also mind Creative Computing Middle, a computer teaching and consulting company. The singer documented her first recording, Something’s Arriving, in 1994 and released it on her behalf Sophistication Notes label a couple of years later.