Nikki Yanofsky

“There is a richness and a maturity and heart and an effortlessness that divas twice her age would kill for”—Montreal Gazette

Montreal singer Nikki Yanofsky is on a roll! The diminutive teenager with the Olympic-sized voice wowed a worldwide audience with her jazzy rendition of O Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. That was Nikki too, singing the official Winter Olympics’ theme song I Believe—which eventually reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Canada Top 100 and on the iTunes Canada Pop Chart. At the same time, Nikki’s debut album, Ella…Of Thee I Swing, scored No. 1 album on the iTunes Canada Jazz Chart. This cross-genre popularity is unprecedented in the history of iTunes. To date, Nikki has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the National Arts Centre, and she has collaborated with the likes of Oliver Jones, Wyclef Jean, and Colin James. She was the youngest singer ever on a Verve Records release when she recorded Airmail Special for the Ella Fitzgerald tribute album We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song. She has also recorded the swing-era classic Stompin’ at the Savoy with Grammy Award-winning artists Herbie Hancock and Will.i.am (from the Black Eyed Peas) for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s audio book On the Shoulders of Giants. Her new album features a killer song that Feist wrote for her and six other songs co-written with Jesse Harris and Ron Sexsmith. Nikki’s Vancouver Jazz Festival debut last year was a jaw-dropping affair.