“One of the most versatile and in-demand singers on the New York music scene” - Simon Calle, All About Jazz Sofia Rei Koutsovitis is a Buenos Aires native, a singer and a composer who elegantly fuses South American rhythms with a jazz aesthetic in a unique and extremely seductive way.
Sofia belongs to a new generation of musicians who in the last fifteen years or so, have created diverse blends of jazz styles with several South American genres, enriching and deeply integrating these musical traditions. But, despite the long relationship between jazz and Latin American music, South American music styles are relatively new to the jazz vocabulary.
Since she moved to New York, Sofia has became a highly demanded artist for musical projects that explore Argentine, Brazilian, Afro-Peruvian and Colombian idioms as well as jazz, contemporary and experimental music.
In fact, she is leading the vanguard of this movement bringing forward-thinking multicultural music grounded in South American rhythms, fusing all these elements with a post-bop aesthetic to create a fresh, global and innovative sound.
"She knows how to combine the best of her Argentine roots with the skills and passion necessary to make many contributions to our music community" - Danilo Perez