A jazz singer with an extremely varied and extensively awarded track record. African-American with staunch respect for renowned (distant) predecessors like Billie Holiday.

There was the Red Earth project as solid statement by a black woman who went in search of her (musical) roots in Mali (even though she mentions Chickasaw, Cherokee, Irish, German and Chinese blood amongst her ancestors).

In the meantime, she has already worked with Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Clarke... She has already earned 1 Tony, 2 Grammys and honorary titles like Commandeur De L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres and Ambassadress of the UN FAO fund...

She has already honoured the likes of Ella Fitgerald, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington and French chanson... and was exceptionally remarkable on her previous visit to AB in 2010: the tribute to her great idol ...