 Motéma Music recording artist, Rondi Charleston, is an award winning jazz singer/lyricist/composer whose work has appeared in film, TV and on stage throughout the U.S. and Europe. Rondi's new album,
Signs of Life, has climbed the Jazz Week charts and has critics raving; Jazz Times proclaims: "she is a songwriter whose poetic, narrative, and compositional skills are comparable to such modern masters as Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon."
Touring in support of Signs of Life, Rondi and her all-star band have given sold out performances from coast to coast - from Yoshi's in San Francisco, to Mayne Stage in Chicago, to Joe's Pub in New York. She has collaborated with some of the foremost jazz luminaries of our time including Fred Hersch, Lynne Arriale and Dave Stryker. Rondi was chosen for the Women in Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and has played Birdland and BlueNote with her quartet in New York City. In addition, Rondi is a Juilliard graduate as well as an Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist at ABC News Primetime Live. |