Nicknamed the Gypsy-jazz Warbler by the New York Times, Tatiana Eva-Marie is a transatlantic bandleader, singer, author, and actress. She plays music derived from the Django tradition with Gypsy and French jazz influences.
Accruing 100 million views on YouTube, Tatiana Eva-Marie was acclaimed as a millennial shaking up the jazz scene by magazine Vanity Fair. She performs regularly in New York at various clubs (Blue Note, Dizzy’s, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Birdland…), across the USA (New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, Freight and Salvage, Winter JazzFest, Rochester Jazz Festival, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Tucson Jazz Festival…) and around the world (recently Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom…)
Though her interests have led her to explore a wide range of musical styles, Tatiana Eva-Marie’s craft is always inspired by her own French and Balkan heritage; a love for the Parisian art scene era spanning the 1920s to the 60s; a passion for traditional Gypsy songs; a fascination for New Orleans music; and a deep connection to the Great American Songbook.
Past collaborations have included Dorado Schmitt, Daniel Garlitsky, Russell Hall, Patrick Bartley, Jeremy Corren, Jake Chapman, Veronica Swift, Sasha Masakowski, Terry Waldo, Giovanni Mirabassi, Guillaume Perret…
Tatiana Eva-Marie is also an author, poet, and lyricist. She studied pagan and christian symbology at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, where she received her MA in English language, literature, and civilization (LLCE) with a major in medieval studies – focusing on rites of passage in Beowulf and the Arthur legend – and a minor in shakespearean studies. She taught French for three years at the French Institute of New York. She was the editor of cultural periodical Shrine Magazine, which she has since turned into a Substack where she primarily discusses film. She is a published poet and has written two musicals and two opera libretti, while touring the world as a jazz singer and bandleader. She currently lives between Paris and New York City. Tatiana spends her free time globetrotting, collaging, learning Italian, and listening to 1930s music.
Bio
Born in Swiss Romandie into a family of musicians, poets, and painters, Tatiana Eva-Marie began her career at age four, as a singer and actress, immersed in a world of entertainment, arts, and culture. She attended the Auguste Piccard High School of Lausanne in a special class for artists and elite athletes, while working as part of the acting company of the Théâtre Populaire Romand under the direction of Charles Joris and Jacqueline Payelle. A year before moving to Paris, at age fifteen, she attended a summer course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. By age twenty, she had already recorded a few albums; founded the Compagnie Zorongo with her parents, violinist Anca Maria and composer Louis Crelier; established herself as an actress on the Paris stage and a Gypsy singer in the nightlife of Russian cabarets; and written and directed two musicals, while pursuing a Master’s Degree in medieval literature at the Sorbonne University. She developed a fascination for the Renaissance Man archetype and began to travel the world collaborating with artists of various spheres. She then chose New York City as her home base, where she quickly built up a reputation as a jazz singer, at first leading the Avalon Jazz Band, which became overnight the number one reference for French swing around the world.
In the past five years, Tatiana has released six albums, including collaborations with pianists Jeremy Corren and Terry Waldo; was featured as guest singer in various projects; starred in Gérome Barry’s film – which she partially co-wrote – Swing Rendez-Vous, loosely based on her life in the New York jazz scene; started an online arts and culture publication Shrine Magazine; exposed her artwork in her first exhibit in West Virginia; and wrote the libretto for Eden Park, an opera by composer Gérard Massini. Completely dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation, she is at the same time lyricist, arranger, producer, and artistic director on most of her projects. Also a collage artist, she conceived and created the artwork for her album Djangology, released on GroundUp Music in June 2024.
She is currently working on publishing a Django songbook with her original lyrics; writing the libretto for a second opera (an adaptation of Mood Indigo by Boris Vian); recording an album of classic Italian songs (commissioned by Burton Avenue Music); and touring worldwide. Her latest album A Whole New World, a collection of Disney songs in French, was released in April 2025 on Burton Avenue with a Virgin International distribution. Her next album Django’s Tiger, in collaboration with Swiss band The Echoes of Django and violinist Daniel Garlitsky, is set to be released on November 21st, 2025.
Tatiana’s project Djangology is a reinvention of the music composed by Parisian guitarist Django Reinhardt – the father of Gypsy jazz – through the addition of her own original lyrics and arrangements. Catch her live on tour!