TICKETS: $25 | RESCHEDULE > 2021
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Get ready for a Yuletide Groove! Ms. Monique brings her very merry bag of tricks…just in time for the holidays.
“Typhanie Monique rescues jazz-style Christmas songs.”
Typhanie is a performer, educator and recording artist whose four critically acclaimed, independently produced albums have captured the ears of Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich and thousands of dedicated fans.
A bold, engaging performer with the ability to reach straight to the heart of her listeners, Typhanie has has shared the stage with jazz’s elite, and graced jazz’s most distinguished venues including Chicago’s Jazz Showcase, The Green Mill, and City Winery; The Kitano and Small’s in NewYork; The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis; and The Dakota in Minneapolis. She has enthralled audiences and brought enthusiastic crowds to their feet at major outdoor events like the Chicago Jazz Festival, Vogue Design Festival in Moscow, Milwaukee's SummerFest, Taste of Chicago, and the Isthmus Jazz Festival to name a few.
Typhanie’s long-awaited solo album CALL IT MAGIC reflects her focused passion as a vocalist and her hard-won maturity as a human being. Envisioned as a conversation and a journey, the album pairs jazz and pop standards with originals penned by Typhanie in a call-and-response of hard-hitting emotion and thoughtful reflection. Over the course of 10 tracks, Typhanie reveals her vocal depth and versatility as she transports listeners down the rough roads of love, struggle, heartbreak, acceptance and rebirth.
An in-demand educator and vocal coach, Monique served on the adjudication panel of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition. She has studied privately with legendary vocalists Bobby McFerrin, Shelia Jordan and the late Mark Murphy, and considers herself a lifelong student of the art of singing. An adjunct professor since 2012, Typhanie mentors the next generation in voice science, contemporary singing styles and techniques and artist development. A whole self approach to body, mind, spirit development.
“A modern-day Sarah Vaughan with iridescent traces of Lena Horne.”
“Monique has never lacked for stage presence or vocal audacity. ... One of these days, the rest of the world is going to discover her.”