Nani Vazana brings a breath of fresh air into the jazz and world landscape. Her daring choices, incorporating Vocals, Piano and Trombone simultaneously in her live show are taking her cross over to a deeper level. Her timeless compositions and stage presence make a dramatic, yet playful act. Often compared to the most powerful women that came before her, including Liz Wright, Nina Simone and Tori Amos, Vazana debuted her latest release Love Migration, charting the top 20 iTunes bestselling albums 2015, won the ACUM album prize ISR and featured on multiple album lists in the same year. Some of her accolades include but not limited to being featured on the most prestigious jazz and world music festivals, such as Jazzahead DE, North Sea Jazz festival NL, TEDx NL, Roccella Jazz IT, Tanjazz MA, Caux Intl. peace conference CH, Music Meeting NL & more.

Nina Simone is known as The High Priestess Of Soul, but when carefully listened to, you discover a Baroque enthusiast. Simone dreamt to become the first African-American concert pianist in the USA but financial problems and racism had her turn to bars and clubs to play jazz, where she was forced to sing. In Simone’s music & improvisations you can distinctly hear J.S. Bach‘s impressions and even direct quotes from his fugues and preludes. Simone admired Bach for his composition. In her autobiography she recalls how her rendition of Love Me Or Leave Me came out of an attempt to compose a Bach-like Fugue.

In this tribute Nani Vazana expands on Simone’s Bach quotations with her own classically oriented take. Seamlessly fusing pieces & songs such as the 1st invention in C into My Baby Just Cares For Me, the Arioso in G into I Loves You Porgy & the famous 1st Prelude from the Well Tempered Clavier into He’s Got The Whole World In His Hand. Enjoy a celebration of Nina Simone & J.S. Bach, like you never heard them before.

Nani Vazana won the Eurovision for minority languages 2024 representing the Netherlands with her original song Una Segunda Piel (A Second Skin). Her music was documented for the Library of Congress USA in 2023, in an honour reserved to few artists. She ranked #11 World Music Charts and #13 Music Charts Europe, represented the Netherlands at the EU Music Festival in Vietnam and performed at the Kennedy Center USA, BBC Radio 3, the London Jazz Festival UK, Jazz in the Park fest Romania and the Jodhpur RIFF festival India, TEDx Amsterdam and more.

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