SOLITAIRE MILES
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Swing • United States

Solitaire Miles… the name has a ring to it, echoing with loneliness and distance...  it sounds too good to be true, but look on her birth certificate and you’ll see it’s the real thing: Solitaire Miles. Listen to her sing and you’ll hear the real thing, too.  Considering the ancestry of hipness she needed to get a name like that, you won’t be surprised to learn that Solitaire comes from a swinging bloodline. Her grandmother Sybil Der Manuel was a big band vocalist in the early 1940's.  When Sol, aged three, heard her first Billie Holiday side, she thought she was hearing Grandma.  When Sybil played the piano and sang, young Sol would sit underneath next to the foot pedals for hours, drinking in the sounds of the past that would one day become her future. Solitaire originally planned to be an opera singer, but while attending DePaul University in Chicago, read more...