Kim Prevost

Introduced to music during childhood through her uncles’ jazz performances in an organ trio, Kim Prevost has risen to prominence as one of the Crescent City’s foremost jazz and blues vocalists. She sang in her church choir, often sharing duets with her father, the pastor. While attending college she pursued studies in dance and worked as a model. Prevost appeared in musical comedy productions, taking roles in Sweet Charity and Dreamgirls, and performed in a Cole Porter revue staged under the direction of Allen Toussaint. Her résumé also includes engagements with George Howard, Bill Summers, and the Walter Payton Trio.

Now partnered with New Orleans guitar master Bill Solley, the pair captured the B.E.T. Jazz Discovery national competition in 1999. That April they issued their debut album, I Would Give all My Love, an amalgam of standards, funk, and blues in which Prevost employs her Sarah Vaughan-like range to swoop, scat, and reshape lyrics. Having absorbed the work of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday while developing her personal approach, she forged a crackling fusion of jazz, blues, funk, and R&B-tinged gospel. Prevost and Solley maintain an active schedule at New Orleans jazz clubs, including a regular engagement at the Chateau Sonesta Hotel.