Tracy Cruz

San Francisco Jazz

A rising vocal star and two-time JUNO Award winner, Montreal-based singer and songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé performs two nights in the Joe Henderson Lab with music from her latest album, Our Roots Run Deep, which took the 2024 JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. “What she does with her voice is absolutely incredible” (NPR).

Dominique Fils-Aimé

SFJAZZ Center

Powerhouse South Bay soulstress Tracy Cruz, a singer with a sound as big as her heart, brings a special night of romantic songs for Valentine’s Day.

Possessing a crystalline mezzo-soprano and enviable pipes, the 2020 winner of the World Songwriting Awards for “Best R&B Song” draws on a deep well of influences, from jazz, neo-soul, and hip hop to R&B, pop and Filipino fusions. Over the past two decades she’s garnered dozens of awards for her singing and songwriting.  Born into a musical family in Quezon City on Luzon, the Philippines’ most populous island, Cruz moved to East San Jose at the age of five. She grew up hearing passionate Tagalog ballads and American soul and pop music, particularly Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston.