Biography
PO Box 200148| Brooklyn, NY 11220
Betty Blue Jazz Band
Betty Blue was born on the Island of Trinidad and Tobago. As a child, she moved with her family to Guadeloupe a small French Caribbean Island, where she remained until she was a teenager. Betty Blue later migrated to the US where she was faced with the challenge of learning to speak English as a second language. She writes ,composes and arranges her songs. She sings her ideas . Her love for singing started at the tender age of four years. While most kids were out playing with toys, she would sit outside on a plum tree and sing for hours. Her life near the sea on the Island has influenced her sound. Calm, warm and soulful. She sang in churches as a child, but as an adult her passion for Jazz became so intense that she left church singing to sing Jazz. "I have a nomadic spirit" she says" listen to me and you'll hear it".
This Female Jazz Vocalist has sung in various venues in the City of New York and has studied privately for many years with Enos Payne, Jimmy Sigler, William Riley, Charles Sibirsky, Rhonda Ross and Amina Claudine Mayers. Her sound has been compared to a young Billie Holiday, and NIna Simone warm and sincere……The Band Betty Blue lead vocals, brings to you the sound of fusion Jazz incorporating the sounds of the Tropics, Africa , Brazilian Bosa and the sound of Latin America. On a small fishing boat with her feet hanging in the blue waters... We bring you Betty Blue Jazz.
