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 over 80 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, Joe’s Pub…), across the USA (New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Freight and Salvage, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Tucson Jazz Festival…) and around the world.
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.
Born into a family of musicians, painters, and poets, Tatiana Eva-Marie began her career at age four, as a singer and actress, immersed in a world of show business, arts, and culture. Before her twenties, she had already recorded many albums, established herself as an actress on the Paris stage, 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 as her home base, where she quickly built up a reputation as a singer, and started the Avalon Jazz Band, which became overnight the number one reference for French swing around the world, now accruing over 80 million views on YouTube. She performed on some of the most important American stages and has been regarded as the international ambassador of “1930s Paris”.
In 2022, Tatiana became Gérome Barry’s leading lady in his first feature film Swing Rendez-Vous, loosely based on her New York lifestyle as a jazz singer. In the past few years, Tatiana released five albums, starred as guest singer in various projects, wrote the libretto of a “prohibition opera” Eden Park by composer Gérard Massini, and started an online arts and culture publication – Shrine Magazine. 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 latest album Djangology.
She is currently working on publishing a Django songbook with her original lyrics, writing the libretto for a second opera – an adaptation of a novel by Boris Vian – and touring worldwide. Her next album A Whole New World, a collection of Disney songs in French, will be released in April 2025 on Burton Avenue with a Virgin International distribution.
Tatiana’s latest 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. Her new album was released on GroundUP Music on June 7th… Catch her live on tour!