Cyrille Aimée
Cyrille Aimée Daudel (lang; born 10 August 1984) is a French jazz singer.
Also recorded as Cyrille Aimee
Cyrille Aimée
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- Born
- 1984 · Fontainebleau.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · music arranger · record producer · singer
- Fields
- jazz
- Education
- American School of Modern Music
- Honours
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Languages
- French · English
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Cyrille Aimée studied at American School of Modern Music. The recorded working language is French and English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are jazz. Residence is recorded at Brooklyn. Distinctions recorded are Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
She grew up in the French town of Samois-sur-Seine, in Fontainebleau, France. Her father is French and her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She won the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2007, was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010, and won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012. Her 2019 album Move On featured cover versions of songs by Stephen Sondheim. The album received praise from Sondheim, and one of its songs, "Marry Me a Little", was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Emmet's Place
Emmet's Place
Aimée is frequent guest of the NYC jazz pianist Emmet Cohen, where she performs a variety of songs, usually while dancing and barefoot. Her most popular performance on his Youtube channel was a cover of a Louis Armstrong classic "La vie en Rose" which reached over 7 million views. Additionally she had a stellar performance of the song "After You've Gone" officially challenging Patrick Bartley to a jazz battle.
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Fontainebleau.
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Critical reception
New York Times music reviewer Stephen Holden described Aimée as a blend of Michael Jackson and Sarah Vaughan and wrote that the "saucy... jazz singer [stood] with one foot in tradition and the other in electronics," that her voice had a "tart, girlish chirp", and that her Surreal Band fused traditional and futuristic electronics with textures mixing jazz and funk. New York Times reviewer Nate Chinen wrote that she had a "sweet, girlish voice that she controls with a sniper's precision". Star-Ledger reviewer Ronni Reich described her sound as "instantly recognizable" with a "soft, girlish buzz with a touch of an Edith Piaf-like quaver." Reviewer John Fordham in The Guardian wrote that she is a "subtle and articulate vocalist" who is "light-stepping, casually fluent and persuasive" and sometimes "coolly understated in a soft glide." Classicalite reviewer Mike Greenblatt described Aimée as "talented, precocious, funny, cultured, with the kind of instantly-recognizable voice that has no known precedent." Aimée was singled out for particular praise for her role in Alex Webb's music theatre piece Cafe Society Swing at New York's 59E59 Theaters in Christmas 2014, where she starred alongside vocalists Charenee Wade and Allan Harris. The show received a Critic's Pick in the New York Times.
Discography
• One More by Crème Fraîche: The Lost Recordings (2006) • Cyrille Aimée and the Surreal Band (2009) • Smile (Cyrille Aimée Music, 2009) with Diego Figueiredo • Just the Two of Us (Venus, 2010) with Diego Figueiredo • Live at Small's (SmallsLIVE, 2010) • A Very Gypsy Christmas (GotMusic, 2011) • Burstin' Out, Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Cyrille Aimée (Origin, 2013) • Live at Birdland (Cyrille Music, 2013) • It's a Good Day (Mack Avenue, 2014) • Let's Get Lost (Mack Avenue, 2016) • Live (Mack Avenue, 2018) • Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (Mack Avenue, 2019) • I'll Be Seeing You (Daudel, 2021) • Petitle Fleur (Storyville, 2021) • à Fleur de Peau (Whirlwind Recordings, 2024) • Cyrille Aimée: 4.24 (Cyrille Aimée Music, 2024)
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Cyrille Aimée on vocal and guitar at Victoria Teater, Oslo, 16 August 2024. On the stage: Cyrille Aimée (vocal), Carl Henri Morisset (piano), Matteo Bortone (bass guitar), Pedro Segundo (drums). Part of Oslo Jazzfestival.
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- 1.Pitz, Marylynne. French-Dominican vocalist Cyrille Aimee to entertain guests at Cultural Trust gala. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 3 September 2014.
- 2.Danton, Eric R. Cyrille Aimee Goes Back to the Land in 'Bamboo Shoots' Video (Exclusive Premiere). blog.wsj.com. 2 September 2014.
- 3.Gilbert, Andrew. Cyrille Aimée to fuse Gypsy, jazz spirits in Santa Cruz show. SF Gate. 26 Feb 2014.
- 4.Holden, Stephen. Cyrille Aimée and the Surreal Band at Birdland. The New York Times. 23 November 2012.
- 5.Reich, Ronni. Cyrille Aimee wins the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition. nj.com. 21 October 2012.
- 6.Cyrille Aimee: 'I Wish You Love'. The Washington Post. 5 October 2010.
- 7.Cyrille Aimée. GRAMMY.com. 2020-11-23.
- 8.Allen Morrison, "Cyrille Aimee Is Moving On", JazzTimes, December 2019.
- 9.Chinen, Nate. Albums From Eric Harland's Voyager, Bobby Broom and More. The New York Times. 15 August 2014.
- 10.Fordham, John. Cyrille Aimée and Friends: Live at Smalls – review. The Guardian. 11 August 2011.
- 11.Greenblatt, Mike. Blogarrhea Exclusive Interview: Cyrille Aimee – A Woman to Love in Three Languages. Classical Lite. 29 January 2016.
- 12.nytimes.com/. Rich Songs Tell a Jazz Club's Bittersweet Story. 23 December 2014.
- 13.Emmet Cohen. Emmet Cohen Trio feat. Cyrille Aimée "La Vie en rose". 2020-11-06.
- 14.Emmet Cohen. "After You've Gone" w/ Emmet Cohen & Cyrille Aimée. 2025-03-27.
- 15.Doug Munro and la Pompe Attack - A Very Gypsy Christmas. Discogs. 2011.
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