![]() ![]() She has co-presented BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line Up since 2000 and has interviewed many of her musical heroes, such as Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Brad Mehldau, and André Previn. She has been a featured soloist with the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the BBC Big Band, and the BBC Concert Orchestra. They played to sell-out crowds at venues including the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. ![]() Martin has performed all over Europe and Asia with her trio and, until his death in 2012, with Richard Rodney Bennett in an intimate cabaret duo setting in England and in America. Later that year, she opened for Tony Bennett at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. In 1991, she was signed by the Scottish jazz label Linn Records and her debut album, The Waiting Game, was released in 1992. When she was 21, she formed her own jazz quartet. For two years, she worked aboard the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth, where she sang in the piano bar. ![]() Her professional career began at the age of 19 when she sang in a hotel band in at the Savoy Hotel after auditioning to be a bluecoat Bournemouth. She cites Ella Fitzgerald's Song Books as the inspiration to study singing at the Doris Holford Stage School and in New York and London. She grew up in a house "full of music" thanks to jazz-loving parents. ![]() Martin was born in Colliers Wood, London. Claire Martin, OBE (born 6 September 1967) is an English jazz singer. ![]()
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