Kurt Elling
The American Jazz Singer and Songwriter Live!
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The American Jazz Singer and Songwriter Live!
The American Jazz Singer and Songwriter Live!
The American Jazz Singer and Songwriter Live!
The American Jazz Singer and Songwriter Live!
The American Jazz singer-songwriter Kurt Elling has won the Down Beat and JazzTimes critics' polls three years in a row in the Best Male Singer category. He is also Vice Chair of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the 17,000-member service organization that produces the annual Grammy Awards.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he developed an interest in music through his father, who was a Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. Elling has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards and won Best Vocal Jazz Album for Dedicated to You (2009) and Secrets Are the Best Stories (2021).