Jana Kütt

Jana is a singer, composer, lyricist and arranger from Estonia who as a leader of Jana Kütt Group released her first EP called Värvid/ Colours in fall 2017. She has performed in all the main festivals in Estonia, such as Jazzkaar, IDeeJazz, Visioon, Student jazz fest as well as the jazz clubs like Philly Joe’s jazzclub, Tartu jazzclub etc. Jana studied jazz-vocals in Estonian Academy of Music and Gothenburg Academy of Music. She has performed with young swedish cats in Gothenburg’s best clubs Nefertiti and Unity Jazz. As a side-man she can be found in an acoustic, modern, minimalistic and experimental ensemble put together by a latvian pianist called Anna Wibe Trio. Besides jazz and improvisational concepts she is one of the lead singers and songwriters in an estonian modern folk band Pillikud. In summer 2018 they toured around Europe and gave concerts in Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Portugal. As a singer and composer on her own, she is influenced by childhood euro-pop as well as modern jazz. Her lyrics talk about our weird society, complicated relationships through her eyes. Her music is related to artists such as LAura Mvula, Ellen Andrea Wang, Studnitzky, Bob Reynolds, Oddjob, Jacob Collier etc.