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Anaïs Reno
New York-Based Jazz Singer And Composer, Anaïs Has Been Artistically Very Active, Involved In The Performing Arts Since Age 8. After Winning The 2016 Forte International Competition’s Platinum Award At Carnegie Hall, She Won The Jazz Award In The American Traditions Vocal Competition, The Mabel Mercer Competition And The Julie Wilson Award.
Studying Voice Since 2013 With Sarah Tolar As A Recipient Of The Recanati-Kaplan Scholarship Program At The 92nd Street Y As Well As With Her Father, A Former Opera Singer, Anaïs Graduated In The Spring Of 2021 From LaGuardia High School Studying Drama, And Now Attends SUNY Purchase, Studying Jazz Voice And Operatic Technique With Sherry Overholt As An Ella Fitzgerald Scholar.
Anaïs Has Had A Rapidly Growing Career As A Singer With A Love For Jazz And The Great American Songbook. Since Age 10, She Has Had The Opportunity To Perform In Prominent Venues Such As Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Rose Hall, The Django, Dizzy’s Club, Chris' Jazz Café, Madison Square Garden, The Caramoor Jazz Festival, PizzaExpress, The Edinburgh Jazz Festival, And Others. While At These Venues, She Has Been Joined And Hired By A Slew Of Acclaimed Jazz Musicians Such As Gary Smulyan, Chris Byars, Emmet Cohen, Peter Bernstein, And Many More.
Anaïs’s Debut Album Celebrating The Music Of Duke Ellington And Billy Strayhorn, Titled Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington & Strayhorn With The Emmet Cohen Trio, Was Released In 2021 And Received International Critical Acclaim, Climbing To Number 6 On The Jazz Chart After Performing In The Top 10 For 4 Consecutive Weeks. Anaïs Was Featured On Good Day NY’s “New York State Of Mind” Welcome-Back-To-New-York Video With A Wide Variety Of Stars Including Idina Menzel And Stephen Colbert, And She Sang “America The Beautiful” For The 2021 9/11 Mets/Yankees Game. In February Of 2024, She Released A Live Album Recorded In London With PX Records Titled At PizzaExpress: Live In London. Her Sophomore Studio album, “Lady Of The Lavender Mist” , was released May 2025 under Club44 Records, featuring Peter Bernstein, David Wong, and Joe Farnsworth.
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2026 Bistro Award Winner for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist Anais Reno with Tim Brey/Aidan McKeon Quartet
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Anaïs Reno with the John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club
by Mark Robbins
Anais Reno's song interpretation belies her 23 years. Her performance at the Attucks Jazz Club brought to mind an older, more experienced vocalist, not the young singer performing in front of a sold-out venue. Her voice has been described as “timeless," in the stylings of Carmen McRae or Ella Fitzgerald. Where many of today's young vocalists tend to perform vocal acrobatics, Reno sticks with the melody and story of the song. Borrowing from her debut album of 2021 Lovesome Thing: ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Swinging In The Holidays
by Jim Trageser
With a warm, wood-paneled vintage glow, a new Christmas collection inhabits the space formerly reserved for top-flight crooners like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett: blending pop and jazz into comfort food for your ears. While few of the “next-gen" (as the album's publicity tag puts it) performers here will be known to those unfamiliar with the contemporary New York City scene, their chops are undeniable and the arrangements flattering to the performers' strengths.
Continue ReadingAnaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist
by Pierre Giroux
Anaïs Reno continues to strengthen her reputation among the top young interpreters of the Great American Songbook with her album Lady of the Lavender Mist. Four years after her debut, Reno returns with greater vocal maturity, deeper interpretive insights, and support from a seasoned rhythm section featuring guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist David Wong and drummer Joe Farnsworth. This ensemble grounds the project in classic jazz values while allowing her plenty of space to shine as she performs a set of ...
Continue ReadingAnais Reno and the Dylan Band Quintet at Chris’ Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
Anais Reno and the Dylan Band Quintet Featuring the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA June 24, 2023 At 19, Anais Reno is one of the finest emerging jazz vocalists amid a hefty scene of great young singers. And her repeated engagements at Chris' Jazz Café show that she has a strong fan base in Philadelphia. Hence there is no need to say how competent and ...
Continue ReadingMeet Vocalist Anais Reno
by Sanford Josephson
When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be good for me. So, she started to give me songs from that repertoire, and it very quickly became my favorite music to do." Reno and Tolar met for lessons for nearly 10 ...
Continue ReadingFrank Sinatra, Branford Marsalis & Anaïs Reno
by Joe Dimino
Representing the youth movement in jazz in 2021 we kick off the 716th Episode of Neon Jazz with vocalist Anaïs Reno's “Daydream." She is followed by her hero Frank Sinatra and good line-up of jazz. It picks up with guitarist Dan Wilson, vocalist Bill Kwan and German Pianist Kilian Kemmer. We also hear the pipes of a talented LA-based singer Mara Kaye and tie it all together with a song from the saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Dig this new episode.
Continue ReadingAnaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen
by Richard J Salvucci
The first time someone told me that Billy Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote “Lush Life," I didn't believe it. Not so much because of the harmonic gymnastics, which were daunting enough, but because of the lyrics. “Romance is mush stifling those who strive, I'll live out a lush life in some small dive." No, someone had to have lived quite a bit to write something like that. No-one at eighteen could know that, so I thought, because I ...
Continue Reading“This 17-year old who sang “America The Beautiful” (both verses, shocking the crowd) Anais Reno, is going to be a superstar.”
“Her sophistication and work ethic set her apart from most people her age. Anaïs Reno is truly a classic vocalist, her singing is ageless.”
- Nelson Brill, Boston Concert Reviews
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Anaïs Reno
Location: New York City
Instrument: Vocals
Born: November 29, 2003
