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Artist
Yvonne Sanchez
12+ albums
jazzfemale vocalistsBossa NovaCzechbrazil
about
Yvonne Sánchez didn’t mean to be a jazz singer, but destiny has brought her down this path. This Polish-Cuban jazz vocalist, with her honey-smooth voice, has wooed audiences across the world. Having performed briefly as a percussionist with some of the top musicians in her native Poland, including Jozef Skrezek, she moved to Germany and left music behind her. In 1994 she moved to Prague where she met the saxophonist Mike Tramonte and the guitarist Max Voegler who helped her discover her hidden voice. Within months Sánchez had become a staple of the Prague jazz scene, playing with the country’s top musicians including bassist Robert Balzar, pianist Jan “Najponk” Knop and saxophonist Karel Ruzicka, Jr. Her repertoire spaned jazz standard by Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, to the Bossa Nova sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim. In 1995 she gave her first concert, at Prague’s famed Reduta Jazz Club, where musicians as diverse as Mile Davis to former American president Bill Clinton have played. She continued to immerse herself in the Prague jazz scene culminating in been awarded vocalist of the year (1998) by the prestigious Czech Jazz Society. Sánchez says simply : “I fell in love with Prague. There was something in the air, and I thought it would be nice to live here for a while”. Yvonne is completely self-taught, and has a unique style of interpretation. She approaches a new song by reading the sheet music, or by hearing the musicians play the instrumentals. The
