Composer, singer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant is passionate about storytelling and exploring connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions, theater, jazz, and Baroque music. An eclectic curator, she unearths rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, power dynamics, twists, and humor.

She won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and received GRAMMY® Awards for three consecutive albums: The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One to Love. In 2020, she received the MacArthur fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award. Her debut and follow-up Nonesuch Records projects, Ghost Song (2022) and Mélusine (2023), have also received two GRAMMY® nominations.