Artist Mentor
Cyrille Aimée is a Grammy-nominated French jazz singer, songwriter, and improviser raised in Samois-sur-Seine, home of the legendary Django Reinhardt Festival. She won the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2007 and the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012, and her 2019 Sondheim tribute album Move On earned praise from Sondheim himself, with its track "Marry Me a Little" receiving a Grammy nomination. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation, she has released over a dozen albums and served as Artist in Residence at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Aimée joined Campfire Music Foundation as an advisor in 2024.