Melissa Stott, jazz songwriter and vocalist, was born in Britain, but is currently based in Italy. Daughter of a Singaporean-Chinese mother and an English father who was a jazz pianist and church organist, Melissa started out as a classical pianist, actress and dancer, and spent the late eighties and early nineties living and working and touring in London, Canterbury, Singapore, Italy, Sweden and Denmark.

For her 2005 discographic debut, Why Now, she was hailed by Chris Parker (Vortex, London) as “a witty, accomplished songwriter with the ability to deliver her material with beguiling, informal intimacy…”, who also went on to predict that “her ability to write clever but affecting original songs that sound like standards in the making should see her establish herself in the top flight of vocalists in short order”. Her new 2007 release The Picture for Leo Feigin’s Feetfirst Records (a division of the avant-garde Leo Records), sees that promise about to be fulfilled.

Her material, dealing as it does with thoroughly contemporary emotional concerns, communicates with twenty-first-century audiences with all the ease of popular music. As a vocalist, her style is natural and understated, yet “an almost conversational intimacy combines with subtle power” to produce feelings that it’s hard to put your finger on. She also has, in her “precise diction, fluidity of her phrasing and perfect intonation, some of the best strings to her bow” (All About Jazz). Melissa Stott is “conversational, mature and engaging...far more than just a singer.” (Jazz Review, UK)

Visit Melissa's official website: www.melissastott.com

The Picture, Feetfirst Records, 2007.

Why Now, Feetfirst Records, 2005.