Marie-claire Giraud (born in Roseau, in the Commonwealth of Dominica, and raised in the Bronx, New York), more popularly known as
Marie Claire or Marie-claire, is a classically-trained singer whose interests extend beyond her
opera background and her Caribbean musical heritage of
reggae and
dancehall, into
pop,
hip-hop, and
jazz. Jazz would probably take top billing in her second line of interests, if Giraud’s self-described major influences –
Ella Fitzgerald,
Sarah Vaughan and
Dinah Washington – are taken into account. Notwithstanding this, her accomplishments seem to rest more h…
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