Vocalist

With wide-ranging influences such as Bjork, Dianne Reeves, Carmen McRae, Joni Mitchell, and Cassandra Wilson, jazz and gospel vocalist Valerie Troutt is a tremendously creative artist for whom art and activism are intertwined. She returns to SFJAZZ to honor the legacy of Oakland-born gospel legend Walter Hawkins and the Hawkins Family.

Bay Area born and bred, her spiritual and social justice driven performances mirror her lifelong hunger for social connection and cultural narratives. Since returning to the Bay Area after her studies at New York’s New School and subsequent touring, Troutt has partnered with East Bay Performance Art Center, the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco Queer Cultural Center, the Embodiment Project, Zoolabs, Yerba Buena SF, and Oakland School for the Arts, where Troutt is currently a teaching artist in residence.

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Valerie Troutt

SFJAZZ Center

Vincent De Jesus is a drummer, percussionist and teaching artist with roots in Mexico and Puerto Rico from San Antonio, Texas. Currently living in San Francisco, Vincent leads the Bay Area Latin Soul Project, a kaleidoscopic group fusing the Afro-Caribbean styles of Cuba and Puerto Rico with Black American music from the US like jazz, funk and hip-hop.

Valerie Troutt is an amazing vocal artist based in Oakland, California. Steeped in gospel and jazz, Valerie is a musical collagist, borrowing from ancestral centuries of sound, channeling spirits, and delivering the stories of our love, loss, and lives. There’s a light in this unapologetically unconventional artist/teacher/activist for whom art and activism are intertwined. Within this spiritual and social justice-driven performer is a lifelong hunger for craft, for connection, for cultural narratives and an indefatigable thirst to serve as an agape griot to a waiting people.

Valerie Troutt

Vocalist

Events

Past events

Jul 16, 2023

Valerie Troutt · San Francisco Jazz

Jul 10, 2022

Bay Area Latin Soul Project/Valerie Troutt · Stanford Jazz Workshop

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