Bred and buttered in Brooklyn, Mara Kaye is “one of New York’s great gifts to the world. A joyous phenomenon, she becomes her songs…

She doesn’t pose, she doesn’t copy, but her entrancing music pierces our hearts.

She is a great musician—and a great performer—but perhaps her greatest gift is that of storytelling.*

Think 1928 Bessie Smith or 1937 Billie Holiday, leavened with street smarts. Her heart is in her music and there is no pretense, no distance, as audiences from here to Russia, New York’s ‘Jazz at Lincoln Center’ and Brooklyn dives have found out.”

Mara has just recently released three singles off her debut EP, ‘ It Had to Be You’ featuring Boogie-woogie piano legend, Carl Sonny Leyland.  It was recorded live to tape and mastered by Jon Atkinson with Bigtone Records.

– Michael Steinman, Jazz Lives

* Clint Davis, San Diego Troubadour 

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