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An underground jazz artist.
Karmen Rõivassepp is a young award-winning Estonian jazz vocalist, composer, big band conductor and arranger, that in the recent years has grown quite a following and achieved great recognition in both Denmark and abroad. Rõivassepp is fluent in a variety of musical styles – playfully navigating between mainstream, latin and contemporary jazz. She is noticed for her instrument-like singing, clear sound and always charming and effortless performance. Having a versatile profile, Rõivassepp has become an integral part of the Danish and Estonian jazz scene, leaving her voice, compositions and arrangements on a number of latest releases, with much more to come later in the year. For her outstanding work on "Ambivalence" with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra she received the Composer of the Year award at the Danish Music Awards Jazz 2023 and Jazz Album of the Year award at the Estonian Music Awards 2024. „The bandleader’s vocals are striking in their purity, her range and her pitching impressive. And she’s harmonically inventive when decorating melodies with intricate, scat-sung phrases [...]“ – Thomas Rees, Downbeat Magazine (2018)
Karmen Rõivassepp plays contemporary and Latin vocal jazz, known for her pristine vocal control and intricate scat-singing with ensembles like the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra.
Karmen Rõivassepp is an Estonian jazz vocalist and composer who is prominently active across both the Danish and Estonian music scenes.
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