Anaïs Reno
17-YEAR OLD ANAïS RENO SINGS “AMERICA THE BEAutiFUL” AT THE YANKEES/METS 9/11 20TH ANNIVERSARY GAME
ANAÏS RENO at pizza express Live - in london
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"Reno delivers with rare maturity throughout and delivers with uncanny depth on the melancholy torch song "I'm Never Happy Any More.” And she swings with ferocity and sass of an Anita O'Day on the up-tempo closer, "Never Been In Love.”
- Bill Milkowski, Downbeat
"…This is a once in a lifetime voice.."
- Stephen Mosher, Broadway World
“Not only an impressive debut recording by Anaïs Reno but deserves to be on any list of best vocal albums of the year.”
- Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz
“…you’ll know you’re in the presence of pure young vocal genius when you hear her sing Strayhorn’s ‘Lush Life’…”
- Dick Metcalf, Contempory Fusion Reviews
“The most impressive new jazz singer to appear on the scene since Veronica Swift.”
- Scott Yano, L.A. Jazz Scene
“…you're quite a musical prodigy..."
-Michael Feinstein - Great American Song Book Competition, Carmel, Indiana
About Anaïs
Singer-Performer-Composer
A 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 will be released under Club44 Records in 2025, featuring Peter Bernstein, David Wong, and Joe Farnsworth.
