In a\u00a0<\/span>span<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>two<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>decades<\/span>, 11 recordings and\u00a0<\/span>countless<\/span> stage performances, vocalist Ren\u00e9 Marie has cemented her reputation as not only a singer but also a composer, arranger, theatrical performer, and teacher. Guided and tempered by powerful life lessons and rooted in jazz traditions laid down by Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and other leading ladies of past generations, she borrows various elements of folk, R&B, and even classical and country to create a captivating hybrid style. Her body of work is musical, but it\u2019s more than just music. It\u2019s an exploration of the bright and dark corners of the human experience and an affirmation of the power of the human spirit.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ren\u00e9 composed and sang her first piece with a band when she was 15. But she put her musical aspirations aside to make room for the obligations and responsibilities of adulthood. When she was 41, her older son convinced her to start singing again, and she took a few tenuous steps into her local music scene, singing for tips one night a week in a hotel bar. She released her first album, <\/span>Renaissance<\/span><\/i>, in 1999.\u00a0Her\u00a02013 release,\u00a0<\/span>I Wanna Be Evil: With Love To\u00a0Eartha\u00a0Kitt<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0earned\u00a0a Grammy\u00ae nomination in the Best Jazz\u00a0Vocal\u00a0Album\u00a0category.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0newest\u00a0installment\u00a0in\u00a0her\u00a0ever-expanding\u00a0body of work\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>Sound of Red<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0Her\u00a0first album of\u00a0all-original\u00a0material,\u00a0<\/span>Sound of Red<\/span><\/i> comprises 11 songs\u2014some of them autobiographical that provide insightful glimpses into the many small but profound turning points that are part of an individual life. Ren\u00e9\u2019s clever songcraft and sensual vocal delivery make those personal moments not only meaningful but enlightening to a broad audience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jazz vocalist Ren\u00e9 Marie\u2019s music is an exploration of the bright and dark corners of the human experience and an affirmation of the power of the human spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[27],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}