Fiona Ross, a hard-working artist who’s on the market making it occur. Photograph: Steven Tiller

Amongst 2020’s 100 Different Energy Music Checklist, multi-award-winning jazz artist, journalist and founding father of the Ladies in Jazz Media organisation

Proving to be a flexible and formidable musician and songwriter, Fiona Ross oozes class. Listening to her most-recent album, Ideas, Conversations And To Do Lists, is like watching an encyclopedia of jazz burst from the pages. Whether or not Latin-tinged shuffles or present tunes befitting of Broadway, Ross glides by way of types with out ever trying misplaced. It’s not simply concerning the music, pay shut consideration to a music like The Don’t Cease Simply Breathe Ragtime and also you’ll achieve a peek into the lifetime of a hard-working artist who’s on the market making it occur.

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LOCATION: London, UK

STYLE: Little little bit of every little thing! You can find some jazz, some soul, some Latin, singer-songwriter… “Her fashion is poetic and the messages ooze with Millennial angst” (Jazz Weekly).

STRENGTHS: Properly, I’m classically skilled pianist so a piano primarily based songwriter and I’ve been surrounded by an unimaginable various vary of music all my life which embeds itself in my music. I believe that’s in all probability the important thing to my ‘sound’. I simply write no matter is in my head on the time, so might be something! I’m at all times trustworthy and true to who I’m, so by no means attempt to be one thing I’m not. I’m at all times rising as a author.

ACHIEVEMENTS: I’ve launched seven albums of my very own materials, totalling 79 songs. I’ve been very grateful to have obtained quite a few awards, together with Greatest Jazz Music from the World Songwriting Awards for For My Dad, Excellent achievement awarded by the World Music Awards and Worldwide feminine songwriter of the 12 months in addition to having my music Mistress which was recorded reside in a stairwell, chosen to be included within the British Library archives for prosperity, which was an enormous honour.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITER: So many and I can’t choose one, however Rickie Lee Jones and Billy Joel have been a part of my life from a really younger age.

AMBITIONS: Simply attempting to be the very best I could be. I’ve at the moment launched 79 songs, so hoping to make it to 100 within the subsequent 12 months!

WEBSITE: fionaross.co.uk | fionarossjazz.bandcamp.com