Angela Hagenbach

Angela Hagenbach ranks among the foremost Brazilian jazz vocalists residing in Kansas City and has issued two compelling albums to date on the Amazon label. She was raised in a household filled with music, with a father who played saxophone and a mother who played piano. As the seventh of eight children, she devoted seven years to the trombone while also working as a model and serving as keyboardist and singer in a top 40 group. In 1989 an encounter with Sarah Vaughan led her to turn at once to jazz singing. The next year she launched a regular solo engagement at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Kansas City that continued for four years and additionally performed at multiple music festivals. Her command of both swinging first-rate standards and sensitive Portuguese-language material comes across vividly on the recordings Come Fly With Me and Feel The Magic.