American vocalist Stella Cole has a timeless quality to her voice. She makes the classics from the American songbook easy and recognizable but with her own twist and nerve.
“Often when people hear my voice, they tell me I was born in the wrong decade.” She says it herself.
With over 300,000 followers on Tiktok and over 600,000 Spotify listeners per month, she leaves established jazz singers like Kurt Elling and Cecile Mclorin Salvant behind her, although she still has a bit to give to reach the fame of Michael Bublé, one of her admirers.
Stella’s musical story began when, at the age of three, her mother pressed play on a VHS tape of The Wizard of Oz. Stella was immediately obsessed with the film and watched it as soon as she got the chance. By kindergarten, her VHS collection had grown to a large pile of classic movie musicals.
On her self-titled debut album, Stella Cole performs a collection of classics, several of which are orchestral arrangements by multiple Grammy winner Alan Broadbent. With fine and strong versions of “Over the Rainbow” immortalized by Judy Garland, “My Foolish Heart” and “Moon River”, she also weaves in Billie Eilish’s “My Future”.
Jazzklubb Fasching has the honor of presenting this brilliant new addition among interpreters of the traditional and newer American songbook. An interpreter who has made a younger generation of listeners discover the rich song treasure of this tradition.
