Cyrille Aimee

GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Cyrille Aimée has earned international acclaim for her fearless improvisation, radiant stage presence, and genre-crossing approach to jazz. Winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Aimée has performed with Roy Hargrove, appeared at the Apollo Theater, and starred alongside Bernadette Peters in a Stephen Sondheim tribute at New York City Center with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Her reimagining of Sondheim’s “Marry Me a Little” earned a GRAMMY nomination, and her performance in the New York City Center tribute was hailed by the New York Daily News as “a revelation.”

Aimée’s music is shaped by a life lived across cultures. Raised in Samois-sur-Seine, France—home of the Django Reinhardt Festival—she grew up in a multilingual household filled with music, dance, and the Afro-Caribbean rhythms of her Dominican heritage. As a teenager, she would sneak out at night to join the gypsy jazz musicians gathered nearby, an experience that helped shape her unmistakable sense of rhythm, spontaneity, and musical freedom.