Bio
Svetlana is a chart-topping award-winning vocalist, band-leader, songwriter and educator. She is a winner of several competitive USA awards for touring and recording (USA South Arts, Chamber Music America and more), and a finalist for Paul Caar Emerging Act competition. Her last record, Night at the Movies has debuted #1 on the US Traditional Billboard Jazz Charts and has been distributed in Japan by the Inpartmaint label and was on "Best of the Year '' USA critics' lists (Aquarian, All About Jazz).
Svetlana’s Swing Makes You Sing by her band, The New York Collective, is on a mission to uplift, connect, and spread the joy of jazz to kids from 1 to 91! - they deliver exhilarating shows taking the audience on a carnival of sounds, seamlessly moving from sophisticated, sultry retrospection to a rowdy, joyous party - while sharing fundamentals of jazz music and what makes it such a unique American music genre ! “Exuberant, foot-stompin’ music that combines swing with pop-singer/songwriter sensibilities”. (WPIX11 News)
