ROBIN MCKELLE

The adventurous spirit McKelle brings to her latest album Modern Antique has distinguished her career from the start. For her debut disc, the young singer had such a strong conviction that she was willing to risk her own finances to record it - no small feat, given the arrangements that needed to be commissioned, the top-notch players to be hired. Arranger-producer-trumpeter Willie Murillo (Brian Setzer Orchestra, Aimee Mann) also shared her vision. Together they fashioned an album that balanced period authenticity with the very present-tense thrill of hearing an artist eager to put her own stamp on songs like "Something's Got To Give" and "Night & Day." Mckelle has been embraced in continental Europe since the release of her debut, but her burgeoning success is really the result of countless gigs, lots of study and artistic drive. As a teenager, she started listening to jazz and learning jazz piano. She went to the prestigious University of Miami jazz program before deciding to transfer to Berklee. In 2004, she took third place honors at the Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition in Washington, D.C.

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